Welcome to the Sassagoula Float Works & Food Factory. These adjacent facilities represent two of the key elements of Port Orleans culture, food and fun. In the Food Factory, delicious treats come to you straight from the kitchens. Try the beignets (pronounced ben-YAYz), great little pats of fried dough with powdered sugar! Then when it's carnival season (or really any time of the year) step into the Float Works warehouse to see what might be available to craft the next procession.
All of the props and things hanging in the Sassagoula Float Works warehouse are actual items used in Mardi Gras parades in New Orleans. The Krewes from which the pieces were obtained are identified by some of the medallions on display:
From Bacchus to Caesar and everything in between, the Sassagoula Float Works has whatever you might need to make a great statement on the streets of Port Orleans at Mardi Gras time.
A word to the wise.. those are not real beignets. I think they may actually be sopapillas. Real beignets have a closer consistency to donuts.. full of warm hot dough with lots of little holes in it. The ones we had at the Sassalouga Floatworks in March were completely hollow.
ReplyDeleteThey were still good, but definitely not the same as what I remembered from Cafe do Monde. The Muffaleta sandwich at Port also can't compare to the real deal from Central Grocery.
ReplyDeleteAnd wherever you eat them, they should be pronounced BEN-yayz. 8=o)
ReplyDeleteI defer to the gentleman from New Orleans.
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