Poché's

Poché's began in the 1940s, when Floyd Poche's grandfather sold pork, boudin and cracklins from pigs he slaughtered himself in a small store at Poché Bridge on the Teche. Floyd bought the business from his father in 1976 and has grown it more than tenfold. The boudin recipe has drifted with the years: the liver flavor is milder, and fresh jalapeños replaced cayenne as the heat. The market now makes andouille, turducken and crawfish boudin, runs a lunch counter, and ships from a USDA-inspected plant.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Cypress Island Preserve at Lake Martin — 7.6 mi
  Nearly 10,000 acres of bottomland hardwood and cypress-tupelo swamp at the south end of Lake Martin, owned by The Nature Conservancy, with a boardwalk and a rookery of egrets, spoonbills and alligators.
• Vermilionville — 8.7 mi
  A living-history village of about 23 acres on Bayou Vermilion in Lafayette, opened in 1990 to interpret the Native peoples, Acadians, Creoles and people of African descent of the Attakapas region.
• Atchafalaya Welcome Center — 11 mi
  A state welcome center inside the Atchafalaya Basin, the nation's largest river swamp, with exhibits on Basin history and life, a film, a crawfishing boat and French-speaking staff.
• Longfellow-Evangeline State Historic Site — 13 mi
  A bayou-side state site on former Attakapas hunting ground, with a raised Creole cottage of about 1815, a reproduction 1800 farmstead and its slave quarters, and the story behind Longfellow's Evangeline.

More markers nearby

• Mulate's — 2.5 mi
• The Bridge of 1852 — 2.5 mi
• Welcome to Breaux Bridge — 2.6 mi
• Legend of Bayou Teche / La Legende du Bayou Teche — 2.6 mi