re: Food item you ate as a kid and still crave, but family hates

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Pancho’s Mexican Buffet in bossier


Ohhh shite, what a terrible establishment.

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Pun intended?

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Hamburger Helper

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There used to be a hamburger helper "hash" flavor with little cubed pieces of dehydrated potatoes and onions. It was delicious, and I still crave it sometimes.

I still enjoy the occasional can of Chef Boyardee ravioli or Spaghettios. My wife can't stand when I make tuna salad.

Red boudin. Had it for breakfast twice a week growing up, then over the decades it got increasingly difficult to find in the stores and the small neighborhood butchers and boucheries went extinct. In the last two years the two remaining places I knew of gave up. Mougeots in new Roads was good and a small no-name butcher who specialized in processing hunters' deer carcasses outside of Poche Bridge. Both were very good. The only places I know of now, in Vermillion and St Mary Parishes don't use blood but rely on liver and that is just a different taste altogether. Not the same as boudin rouge.


I've gotten really good blood sausage from Minnesota or Wisconsin in the supermarkets in the last few years, and it was indistinguishable from really good red boudin. A butcher here told me that it was legal to produce there but not 'in Louisiana because they used cow blood whereas here it was Lways made with pig blood which is no longer legal. Don't know if that is all true, but sounds believable.

Any tips on where to still get red boudin, legal or otherwise, highly appreciated.

cabbage
liver

Vienna sausage sandwiches with mayo, cheese and pickles.
Fried bologna sandwiches with mustard, mayo and cheese which is melted between the two bologna slices.
Chef Boyardee pepperoni pizza kit.
Chef Boyardee beefaroni original.
Smoked oysters on crackers. Hoghead cheese on crackers with mustard. Sardines on crackers with mustard.
Tuna salad with eggs sandwiches. Olive loaf sandwiches. Egg salad sandwiches.