Finding Food in Eunice LA

At the Jam Session at the Savoy Music Center, we learned from retired rice farmer Albert that there were several options for getting some locally produced food in Eunice LA.

Fortunately for us, the farmers' market was just getting started.  So we left the jam session and headed into downtown Eunice.

The curbside market was really just five or six tables of folks selling food from their kitchens or their gardens.  This worked well for our purposes, as we were able to get blueberries, purple hull peas, lemon tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, and eggplant.  We rounded it out with a couple of large cantaloupes from the back of a truck on the way back to the trailer.




Showed up about 10:30 at a Saturday Farmers' Market which started thirty minutes earlier.

We also needed to get some meat, so we headed over to the Eunice Superette Slaughterhouse.

It was an amazing thing to find this place, right on the edge of town but next to a subdivision.  It was SLAMMED with people.  I took a little video to give you an idea of what it's location was like.







The line when you get in is long, but it moved fast.  You've got frozen selections to look at while you wait.


Specials are listed along the whiteboard behind you.  Both grain and grass-fed beef are available.



A crew of about 20 people work at the slaughterhouse (in back) and the butchershop (superette) out front.



Some decidedly cajun offerings can be found, including pounce.



The facility is not that big...there are quite a few outbuildings, but they are mostly small.



So much from which to choose!  We settled on a fresh rib steak, smoked bacon, and TASSO!

One thing to note...we were able to get a 1.25 # steak for $6, 2 # smoked bacon for $8, and three big chunks of tasso for $2, totaling $16 in meat purchases.  At the usual farmers' market in NC, that would cost about three times as much.    I don't know the cause for difference in pricing, but I would guess it might be numerous factors...lower cost of living, shorter supply chain, and a strong cultural connection to real food (allowing all parts to be sold).



We were also able to pick up locally-grown rice, locally-grown dried beans, jalapeño relish, and seasonings.  Yay!!!

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