Johnson's Grocery

Boudin reached Cajun country from France, where the sausage came as a blood version or a smooth white paste. Cooks here dropped the blood and added rice and cayenne, and the earliest known Louisiana recipe with rice appeared in the Lafayette Daily Advertiser on March 4, 1939. Arneastor Johnson began selling it commercially in the 1940s from his Eunice grocery, where hot boudin drew long lines, though others had sold it earlier: Daisy Broussard in Lafayette in 1926 and Crowley Cold Storage in 1934. Cajun, Hot and Country varieties spread in the 1950s and 1960s.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Prairie Acadian Cultural Center — 1.4 mi
  A National Park Service center in Eunice on the Cajun prairie, with exhibits on the Acadians who settled the prairies, a Courir de Mardi Gras display, free music and cooking demonstrations, and the shuttered Liberty Theatre nearby.
• Le Vieux Village and the Venus House — 20 mi
  A heritage park in Opelousas built around the Venus House of about 1791, the home of a free Creole woman of color, Marie Francois Venus, with an old schoolhouse, Methodist church and the visitor center's zydeco music exhibit.
• Louisiana Oil and Gas Park — 23 mi
  The roadside park at Jennings where Louisiana's oil industry began in 1901, with a replica derrick, a pioneers' plaque and Gator Chateau.
• Coushatta Powwow and Koasati Heritage Day — 25 mi
  The Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana's annual powwow and its free Koasati Heritage Day, held at the tribe's resort in Kinder.

More markers nearby

• City Of Eunice — 0.6 mi
• Plaisance School — 19 mi
• Site of Bowie Residence — 19 mi
• Delta Theater — 20 mi