Foodways Tours
2 days · ~140 miles · from Lafayette, LA
Acadiana's gas-station gastronomy, done as a discipline: boudin links eaten off the casing in parking lots, cracklins by the wax-paper bag, and the sacred meat-and-gravy plate lunch. Saturday timing doubles the music.
This trip chains: Bayou Teche & the Cajun Prairie · US 90: Rice & Rails
Best Stop versus Billy's, 500 yards apart in Scott (eat both; the tiebreaker is cracklins), Johnson's Boucanière in Lafayette for smoked boudin, plate lunch at a Cajun meat market counter, Borden's scoop, Blue Moon porch by night. Overnight Lafayette.
US 90 west: Rayne's frog murals between bites, Crowley for rice-and-gravy country cooking under the opera house, Jennings' boudin balls — and if it's Saturday, swing north to Fred's Lounge first and earn the calories dancing.