Ronnies Cajun Boudin & Cracklin's — Restaurant in Louisiana

Ronnie’s Cajun boudin & cracklin

The Food came out crackin’ fast but you’re about to find out why and it’s not for good reasons. Quite the opposite in fact!

Main order was the daily special: Rib and rice dressing special $15.99 Beans were ice cold. Maybe they’re sitting out in a stainless steel hotel pan that is warmed solely by the fluorescent lighting of the musty kitchen.

Mac and cheese were close in comparison! About as Hot as a warmed ice cube, maybe.

Fountain Drink came in at $2.69, a fair price for these crazy days, decent Dr Pepper. Could use a bit more syrup. Those combinations for proper fountain soft drinks are a substantially significant ingredient amount. This could be worked on and bettered.

Ribs were seasoned to a decently tasteful level but they were also…. ice cold. That’s a downright shame. Rice dressing had a nice tiny kick (spicy) to it. But it was also ice cold…. What’s going on with this meal? Are they running box fans in the over range to insta-cool all the outgoing food so it arrived to the customers at a disappointingly cold pile?

AT LEAST MICROWAVE THE FOOD YOU PUT OUT IN ORDER TO FAKE YOUR HOT FOOD! But hey I’m different I guess?

A $40 lunch should’ve been closer to 14$ for as ice cold as it was. A bbq place serving cold food. How massively ironic. Should be scolding “scald your tongue” off the grill. The kind your actually afraid to eat and have to force yourself to allow it time and cool off before even thinking about trying to take another bite. But here we are.

All these working men, there were about 20 eating when I was sitting down and eating my own food, in here paying top dollar for cold food. You must remember eating is the one joy and break the working class get from their busy and often burning hot days in steamy Louisiana temperatures. To be able to stop the roasting onslaught of exposure in the work day and sit down to a nice meal, mind you Ronnie sure doesn’t mind charging the top possible prices for this experience. Only to be served a plate of dispassionately cold food— cold bbq at that. This needs to change yesterday. Is anyone actually proud to serve this “left out” food? That just can’t be Possible; but, boy they sure are getting paid to the max for this sad meal. $40 is crazy for an entree, a drink, and a small side of cracklings.

Now to the pork cracklings. This was easily the best part of the experience. It was Wonderful but 13$ for half a small bag? Immensely expensive for a half amount of nice sized cracklings and the other half was debris and dregs from the bottom of the pot. They’re famous for their pork cracklings. And these weren’t even salted— Great meat and fat content though. They were Just overall bland! The spice was there such as pepper and herbs, possibly. But the salt itself was lacking way too much. And I had no salt on hand when I ate them so I had to utilize 14$ of cracklings that tasted like pig fat and meat.

Y’all can keep the sour tasting piece of dirt cheap white bread. No need to add that further disappointment. One bite taught the lesson well enough without returning to that useless bread side.

As far as service, the two ladies were nice enough at front counter. And before I could even walk away from the front counter I asked how they get your food to you and while answering me, another employee walked up and called the name I gave when checking out. So the food was plated and sent out lightning fast. However, it wasn’t because it was prepared nice and quickly. It’s because they probably had prepackaged lunch specials sitting out for a few hours. By the time you get one of these premade lunch specials it’s long lost any semblance of heat to it. Maybe just leave a microwave by the fountain drink station so we, as paying customers, can just heat our own food. Most humans like hot, and seemingly fresh, food!

Cracklings: One Mighty, meaty little bite. Don’t go bigger than the smallest serving size. The cost is crazy high. And all the fat and protein one could need in one sitting is easily included at the smallest...

We moved to the north shore from Metairie almost two years ago. We were used to excellent food in Metairie, but we actually thought moving out to the bayou areas that the food would be even better. Well, let me start by saying how wrong we were. We have tried every restaurant in Ponchatoula and only one is acceptable. The food at Roux and Brew is ok. My husband really likes it, I think it’s just ok. And, it’s also overpriced. Then again, by far it’s better than any place out here. We check reviews before trying a new place but I’m not going to trust those anymore either. We went to Ronnies boudin and cracklings bc of the reviews. It can’t be just us. Ronnie first list stars when we walked in, the floors and tables were all dirty, one older lady sitting at one table looked like she was doing paperwork. Both her and the younger woman behind the counter looked dirty and unconcerned. I wanted to try the cracklings and was told that they were $4.50 for a scoop, and the scoop was about 1/4 of an old penny cand bag. That’s ridiculous. They only had pork products for poboys. Ok, that’s fine so we ordered the boudin po boy. The bread was not french bread but some kind of roll. Put it this way, the cracklings were good but not $5.00 good. The portion was ridiculous. And the French bread roll thingy just ruined the sandwich. The boudin tasted ok, but we both were grossed out by the whole experience. I’m gonna mix the boudin up with my dog food and see if they will eat it. Product was good, presentation was a big letdown. We will NOT be back. Apparently we will have to travel to Metairie or NOLA for good food. What a shame. Sorry, Ronnie, thanks but definitely NO THANKS. CLEAN UP YOUR BUSINESS PLACE...

This has been one of my favorite places to stop at for a long time while passing by on my truck. The food has always been absolutely delicious but sadly I won't be coming here any more. My last visit was very uncomfortable and I will avoid coming here from now on. I have savings of 2 dollar bills, that me and my wife got at the bank, in case we ever had a rainy day. We were tight on money so we decided to use it here to eat. They refused to take my money, saying that it was too neat and the numbers on the bill were in order, they passed a pen through them that proved they were real and even put them against the light, even after they passed all the tests they put them through and held the line for that, they refused it and said they weren't gonna risk taking my money. Well I had no issue using them at Quiznos next door and had a good meal but I'm still mind bugged that after knowing they were real they still refuse them due to being in too good of condition and in numerical order. Later my wife told me she had no issue using some of our 2 dollar bills to get a few things while I used the restroom, leading me to wonder if this was something racial, since she is white and...