Burning Question: Boudin
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Category: Food and Restaurants

BURNING QUESTION #1 (BOUDIN)

This is the first of a string of experimental blogs I have planned for the near future and I would like to start off mild with a simple yes or no survey to see how many people actually give a shit and would respond to such a blog.  Now keep in mind that you may or may not be able to participate because it's somewhat of a cultural thing and you may have never experienced it.  This is fine.  You don't lose anything.  But you are kind of missing out; because I'm talking about boudin in particular.

As I've discovered in previous writings, Microsoft word marks boudin with a red squiggly; indicating a misspelling, but when I right click to spell check it, the options it gives me are bounding, boding, bourdon, bonding, and bodkin; obviously none of which apply to the southern delicacy known as boudin.  Indicating that Bill Gates isn't even aware of boudin, so don't feel left out if you've never had it.  Allow me to explain.

Boudin is a magical substance that transforms all the unused parts of a pig into a wonderfully scrumptious meal.  It comes in links and is basically rice and, um, pig stuff, surrounded by a thin layer of 'skin'.  Now, technically, the boudin is the stuff inside the skin, but the outside skin is totally edible as well.  You can either scarf up the entire link with no mercy or slide the boudin out of the skin with your teeth like a flavor ice and throw the skin away.

The idea for this survey came about when me and a friend of mine went to Poche's (a great boudin spot in Breaux Bridge, LA) to celebrate the sin of gluttony.  We each got our respective links and R.C. Cola and sat across from each other and began to eat.  It didn't take long before he noticed the systematic destruction of my link as I ate it all without hesitation.  He was startled and said:

"Dude, are you eating the skin?" he asked as he sat there with a dangly piece of empty skin hanging off the rest of his link.

"Fuck yeah.  You don't?" I responded, brashly assuming everyone ate the skin.

"Hell no man, I don't know anyone that does."

"Weird, cause I don't know anyone that doesn't."

So we awkwardly finished the rest of our meal all the while carefully studying how the other went about his boudin eating process.  On the ride back into town (yes, we drove out of town to get boudin) we discussed the reasoning behind our skin or no-skin choices and wondered how many people felt the same way.  I was convinced that more people ate the skin than didn't, and he was convinced of the adverse.

Being the competitive assholes that we are, we had to find out which one of us was right.  This meant that we had to take a survey.  This was at the time when I worked the door at a bar and was subject to a bunch of random subjects; perfect.  So that night when the bar closed me and my friend posted up and asked the burning question to the drunken (and at their most honest) bar patrons as they filed outside.  And the results were quite surprising to both of us.  Turns out, the results were split exactly 50 percent down the middle with a 1 percent margin of error.

It was the weirdest thing.  If a group of six people were walking out and we asked them, three would say no, and the other three would say yeah, then they'd all look at each other like they had just learned some deep, weird secret about one another.  And if there were an odd number of people in the group, after they were asked, half would say yes, the other half would say no, and then that one swing vote would get the most brutal stares from everyone wanting them to side with them that I feel their votes shouldn't have been counted on the mere basis of intimidation.

Well now here's your chance to express your unabridged, unbiased opinion in the matter.  Let the whole world (or at least the people that read my blog, which is kind of a small percentage of the Earth) know your boudin affiliation.  Either you're a skinner or a non-skinner, but end the end, we're all winners.

BURNING QUESTION: DO YOU EAT THE SKIN ON YOUR BOUDIN???

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PS- If anyone out there reading this knows about Poche's, hit me up and we'll go have lunch one day.  And if anyone out there works or is affiliated with Poche's, next time you see me there, hook that shit up for all this free advertising my blog has just given you.  Breaux Bridge represent!

Currently listening : Reality Check By Juvenile Release date: 07 March, 2006

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