Brits try Louisiana Soul food for the first time!

We’re BACK in the states for another JOLLY food tour! This time we’ve come to New Orleans to try some of the best, most authentic food we could find from the city, starting with a Louisiana Soul Food Feast!

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Hi, I’m Josh. I’m Ollie. And today we’ve come all the way to New Orleans to try some authentic Louisiana comfort food. Apparently here they have the Queen of Gumbo. Her Majesty. Welcome to Dizzy’s. Hello. How are you doing today? Thank you so much, very well.

He just said you’re the Queen of Louisiana comfort food. Is that right? Are we in the presence of royalty. Pretty much. We love royalty in England. Pretty much. This is a fourth generation, creole family. So we got a lot of good food here that you can try out today.

This is an official plaque that says Culinary Queen of New Orleans. You guys are in for a treat. We actually have an item today that’s not normally on the menu. It’s called the 7-Watt Pork Chop. It is a grilled pork chop with oyster dressing on top. So we got a lot of stuff.

Oh, we got a lot of food. Thank you so much. Thank you, your Majesty. This is what they’re most famous for, right? The gumbo. Can I just ask really quickly, What is gumbo? Gumbo is like a soup. There’s different versions of it, But we do a fillet gumbo.

And it has meat in it, pork sausage, ham, But it also has seafood in it. Shrimp and crabs. Well, gumbo has been around about 75 years. Oh my gosh. There’s so much. I guess you wanna try and get a bunch of different stuff. Oh my gosh. Oh my gosh that is good!

It’s meaty but also you can taste the seafood in there. Oh that’s heavily spiced so it’s got this strong punchy flavour but because it’s a soup it’s not overwhelming. Literally you can tell they’ve been making this for flipping four generations. That has taken decades to perfect that recipe.

You know what I always think when we have something like this which is so full of flavour, so different from what we have in England. Oh we have nothing like that. Every year there must be a certain number of people from New Orleans who come to England And they try Gregg’s.

Luke just gave you a look. Can you imagine their disapointment. Luke loves a Gregg’s. For a long time I thought soul food was just food that made use of the Dover Soul. Like a fish? Yeah. No you didn’t. I did. Just because we didn’t have that concept. No.

The dumbest thing I’ve ever heard. That says all you need to know about English cuisine. The main event this is their Wednesday special with jambalaya. Looks like paella. It does a little bit. Jambafreaking-laya. It’s got veg in there, there’s sausage in there. What is going on there?

That’s heavily spiced. I thought that was just going to taste tomato-y. You know you get like the tomato rice at Chipotle? I’m just saying it kind of looks like that with some sausage and veg thrown in. The flavour keeps going. Right? I’ve never tried jambalaya before.

I’d never even heard of it to be entirely honest. Luke you said you made jambalaya before. I want to see how this compares to your homemade jambalaya in England. Yeah this might put you out of business. No, it’s got a real tingle. I’ve heard, apparently, this is good with hot sauce. Oh yeah?

Louisiana hot sauce. I think I heard her say that locals love this so much that, Sometimes they just drink it. Wow. That’s a lot. I haven’t tried it, but I saw someone else doing that, Putting that much on. Not gonna be able to taste anything. That’s a extremely strong smell. Wow, vinegary.

Completely ruins it. It’s okay, it’s not ruined, but it’s a very overpowering flavour. It’s very overpowering. It tastes quite a lot like fish and chips now. No shut up, what because of the vinegar? You’re an idiot. This is what, like the third, fourth state we’ve eaten our way around now?

First meal already, like it just feels like every state we go to, like this is more and more flavour. It’s so different. We don’t have this diversity of cuisine in the UK. And there’s definitely like similarities, like this fried chicken for instance looks,

Quite similar to some of the stuff we had in Savannah Georgia but you get the impression, Let’s give it a go. Look at that. Yeah, it’s freaking incredible. America! I reckon I can get a chant going. It’s like a conga at a wedding. People can’t resist.

Honestly, I start a conga at every wedding. I know you do! I’ve been with you to about five different ones. I’ve just realised, that’s chicken breast. It’s so juicy. I thought it was thigh. I genuinely haven’t had fried chicken like this since, The last time we were in the South.

So there’s presidents up on the wall. There’s invitations to the inaugurations of President Obama. Are you serious? And Joe Biden. There’s a couple of letters from George W. Bush. This place is a proper institution. I mean, she’s the Queen, man. Oh wow. And the President comes to visit the Queen.

Oh my gosh, it’s so good. This is unbelievable. That jambalaya and the, I mean, I keep going back and forth. Well the Gumbo’s definitely gon’ do that yeah. And the fried chicken as well. We know about gumbo and fried chicken. Okay, I’d want to come here every day if I lived here nearby.

Have you thought about franchising in the UK? No. I think there’s a prime and ready market. Oh definitely. Yeah, 100%. I can’t even remember what she called this but she said this is a special that’s not even on the menu. Wow. Interesting visual. Visual is out there.

Yeah I mean you know it’s special because it comes in a special conservatory. This is a pork chop? Covered with something. This is almost like some kind of sausage puree? That’s what it looks like? Yeah, there’s sausage in there. Sausagey. There’s greens. There’s a lot of greens.

You can taste the veg, the herbs. I wasn’t sure at first, but it’s actually really good. Wait, I think we need to try it with the pork chop. Surely that’s how you’re supposed to eat it. Can you chop me some? This is the oyster dressing, that’s why it was seafoody.

Oh wow, the combination, I really like that. I don’t really have a reference point for that. It’s really strange. It doesn’t taste like anything I’ve ever had. You’re washing it down with gumbo, like it’s a flippin’ cup of tea. It’s unbelievable. It’s unbelievable. They could serve this in pubs, in a pint glass.

Yeah, in a pint of gumbo. A pint of gumbo. Yeah. Yeah. Candy Jabs. I don’t know if we’ve ever had these. Very sweet. That’s very sweet. I wasn’t expecting it to be sweet. It’s called candy. It just tastes like candy. It’s like a dessert.

I’m finding that hard to slot into a category, Josh. I haven’t got space in my filing cabinet for that one. Next to that really like straight because that is quite fishy and sweet, But very salty at the same time whereas that’s just pure sweet. I mean it really tastes like a dessert.

What’s next Josh? Oh baby this looks good. Are those shrimps? Those are deep-fried shrimp. This is like Luke’s favourite thing deep-fried shrimp. That literally just looks like fish and chips. Kind of more professionally done version of what you buy at fish and chips. Less greasy. Oh my gosh the texture, oh my gosh!

That’s ridiculous! Oh my gosh! Okay, okay, okay, I know why that’s so good. Scampy, whenever you have this in the UK, you bite into it, there’s almost no shrimp texture. That is the distinct texture of a perfectly cooked shrimp inside. Yeah, but they’ve also done something revolutionary that we never thought to do.

What’s that? They spiced the batter. Yeah, there’s actual flavour in the batter. There’s actual flavour in the batter. Imagine it. These are so good. Yeah, Luke’s done. Luke’s done. This is Luke’s favourite food. And we just ruined it. So good. Bit of catfish. Look how chunky that fish is. Wow.

See how juicy that is. What are the odds that New Orleans does better fish and chips than the UK? You know what, when England says fish and chips is our national dish, It’s like we’ve chosen a profile picture that isn’t an accurate representation of our appearance. Like a catfish.

It’s what I was gettiing at. Sorry, I kind of spoiled the punchline. No, honestly you helped. It was a tough path for that punchline. I was like, wait what? That catfish is really damn good. I understand how Arkesha has been crowned. Like official culinary queen of New Orleans.

She is queen. Long live the queen. God save their gracious queen. Indeed. Send her victorious, happy and glorious. So this is only the first meal. We have set the bar extremely high. Where do we go from here? I honestly don’t know. No one shared the itinerary. There’s a lot more to try.

We’ve got Louisiana local fast food joints. We’ve got like southern style breakfast. I really want to have some more biscuits and gravy because since the last time we came to the south I’m completely hooked. There’s a lot more coming. In the meantime. We’ll see you jolly soon. See you later guys.