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BRINE MIXING
WITHOUT
THE LUMPS
SMALL BUSINESS MATTERS
for himself and some friends. He passed along a sliver
to a customer named Chick Breaux, a silver-tongued
salesman who sold cranes to oil companies offshore in
the nearby Gulf of Mexico.
" Mr. Chick said the jerky was so good that he asked
him to make him some of it. He turned 20 lbs of round
steak into a smoked Cajun jerky. Mr. Chick returned
the next week and wanted another 20 lbs. He was using
the jerky strips as a personal calling card to get into the
oil field offices. Six months later my dad began making
10-lb batches for his regular customers. "
Today this small family shop turns out 1,000 lbs of
jerky a week.
The company slogan reads " Miracles In Meat Since
1891 " and this latter day jerky was rated No. 1 in
Garden & Gun magazine's feature titled " 100 Southern
Foods You Absolutely, Positively Must Try Before
You Die. "
Another journal (Taste of the South) lists the
virtually hidden shop in its list of " The Absolute Best
Meat Markets in the United States. "
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" I learned and never forgot
that this was a family
business that had a cultural
heritage and legacy. "
- BEAU BOURGEOIS
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REPUTATION RULES
" We really don't do much advertising, " Beau pointed
out. " We go to some sports shows and enter some
local competition cook-offs and similar contests, but
the word has gotten out about what we have, and
customers keep coming back for more. "
While the Cajun beef jerky is the linchpin of the
Bourgeois Meat Market product specialties, a look at
the shop's website (bourgeoismeatmarket.com) will
introduce visitors to some others such as their fixings
and recipes for andouille gumbo, shrimp and tasso pasta,
mock turtle soup, white boudin and boudin burritos,
crawfish boudin, summer sausage, spicy turkey cheese,
many other sausages from their inventory, and a little
about their Slap 'Ya Momma Jambalaya. They also make
many of their own seasonings and sauces. Beau regards
the shop as old-fashioned in many ways. He said there
are not a lot of pre-packaged products sold at the store,
but the service counter staff will eagerly cut fresh meats
or wrap items like sausage or cracklings precisely to the
customers' specifications. Even pets seem to like the
treats the shop offers.
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