Juniors Meat Market

7622 LA Hwy. 338
Abbeville, LA 70510
(337) 893-5688

Beverly Giardelli spent my youth therefore near to the boudin at C. Hebert’s slaughter-house & Meat marketplace that she hardly even remembers eating it as a girl. Her mom worked within marketplace, her cousins worked within market. Everyone else in the city, this indicates, spent weekends throughout the highway from marketplace, in which its founding owner, Clement Hebert, also ran a bush track for horse rushing. It took Beverly several decades and a long spell surviving in Chicago together with her horse trainer husband locate her very own destination within Abbeville marketplace, but she’s now ensconced given that mind boudin manufacturer there. Every employee—from the butcher to the current owner, Junior Luquette—pitches directly into aid the boudin production, but in the end Beverly could be the one whose arms and palate guide it every step associated with way. Today employing its 3rd generation of Hebert relations (4th in the event that you include the children who hang around after school as well as on vacations, bagging cracklin’ and fetching components), C. Hebert’s is amongst the couple of true slaughterhouses kept in southwest Louisiana. And, since it is a slaughterhouse, C. Hebert’s boudin includes parts of the pig—the trimmings in addition to innards—unavailable to boudin stores that depend on commercial pork shoulders and butts.