NOTE: This post was supposed to be part of our big road trip series, but it somehow got lost in the shuffle.
Road Food had lots of great-sounding recommendations for lunch in Lafayette, but we were finally swayed by the plethora of crawfish options at Prejean’s. Plus, it was just off the highway.
They had an impressive display of schwag.
Ben and I shared the Crawfish Platter: fried crawfish, crawfish Etouffee, crawfish pie, crawfish boulettes, crawfish bisque, fries, dirty rice, and fried crawfish salad. The highlight may have actually been the dirty rice.
I couldn’t resist this commemorative coozie.
Also, for future reference, you will be laughed at (as we were) if you come home from Lafayette and tell people that you went to PREE-GENE’s (especially if they are from Lafayette, as they were). Say it like it’s French.
I know Prejeans! That’s about .5 mile from my grandparents’ home in Lafeyette. The fried shrimp is quite tasty I must say.
Being a Cajun myself, I will say that there’s nothing like the food in Acadiana and I always look forward to some good crawfish – and especially the fresh crab!
I will also say though that I usually fall asleep around 7pm when I’m visiting given all the butter I just ingested. And it
only takes about 2 days in south Louisiana before my body starts screaming at me: “Where are the vegetables?”
This was right about when our bodies started screaming for vegetables, too.
wusses
Well there was that fried crawfish and iceberg salad. That may have been the only vegetable we ate all week.
Yes iceberg lettuce occupies about 75% of the vegetable arena in Louisiana I think. Okra, preferably fried, accounts for another 10%. Followed by the corn that comes with boiled crawfish and then the holy trinity of Cajun cooking – diced onions, green bell peppers and celery that go into everything else (sauteed in a stick of butter of course).