Hi, I'm Josh.
I'm Mr Bean's trendy brother.
Today we're here to try poboys, a New Orleans classic.
We're Brits.
We love a good sandwich.
We do.
And everyone has said that we have got to try the New Orleans.
Poboy.
Which doesn't sound like the name of a sandwich,
But let's go see what it is.
Let's find out.
I thought it was a Nintendo character.
Wow.
Look at that menu.
It's a work of art.
That is impressive.
Literally.
I ordered a crap ton of food.
Red beans and rice, which he says is the best red beans and rice in New Orleans.
Actually, I think he said it's the best red beans and rice we're going to have in our entire lives.
What's this one?
Oh, this is the houdat.
What is this?
Oh!
It's a sandwich the size of a pizza.
It looks like a pizza.
How is that a sandwich?
I went on a bit of a Wikipedia deep dive.
The name poboy originates from 1929 where, you know the trams that run through?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
The guys who made those and maintained those?
They went on strike and a famous restaurant said,
"I will feed you, I will supply you blankets,
"Until hell freezes over or until you win your strike action."
So he gave sandwiches to the poor boys on the picket line.
Okay.
So what is it?
It's a giant like baguette style.
It's very light.
Deep fried shrimp.
Look at that, the shrimp in there.
Let's do it.
It just looks like a sub sandwich.
Curious.
That's good.
That's really good.
Oh, it's spicy.
Well, it is spicy.
It's just a really good sandwich.
It's weird that this has become so much of its own thing.
Yeah.
Oh, wow, it's spicy.
It's actually really spicy.
They were selling antacid at the register.
Yeah, I should have taken that as a sign.
Debris fries.
I'm gonna have some of this and hopefully cool myself down.
Oh.
Holy crap, those are good.
What is that? Is this like?
It's debris.
What do you mean debris?
They blew up a cow.
Okay, and this was the debris.
That's like slow cooked beef with cheesy fries.
And gravy all over it.
That is absolutely glorious.
Like in the UK we get dirty fries, right?
It's like cheesy fries, yeah.
They're just putting dirt on those.
Okay.
Here, they actually select the dirt.
It's debris.
This is like night out food.
Oh yeah.
How late is this place open 'til?
4 a.m.
Yeah, there you go.
Come here after a beer.
At that point it's breakfast, you can start drinking.
The one thing I would say, a little bit weak.
Bread doesn't really taste of anything.
It's bread.
It's quite dry.
You know what the bread tastes like?
What?
It tastes like your bloody cars crackers.
It's like got almost zero flavour to it.
Do not insult the cars crackers.
I guess the bread is designed to let the filling shine.
It doesn't like distract from what is inside at all.
It's a hype man.
No one goes to the concert for the hype man, right?
No.
But if you've got a bad hype man,
Could ruin the whole thing.
It could, it could.
I'm not really sure what I'm talking about.
Strange analogy, yeah, okay.
All right, fried okra.
Hell yeah.
That's beautiful.
That's really good.
Oh yeah, it is spicy.
The batter they use must be spicy.
And it's nice to have something healthy, you know?
Deep fried okra.
This is the hot roast beef.
When we were ordering, he said that this is one of the traditional...
Now first thing, when I think of roast beef,
I think of like a Sunday roast, a British roast dinner,
and the first thing I think of is dry.
Because roast beef is like sliced and quite dry.
But this is like the opposite.
It's wet, literally soaking.
Oh my gosh.
Dripping everywhere.
Boy po boy.
I've just seen this Creole seasoning
that apparently is great on everything.
Let's do it.
Oh wow, oh wow, gosh.
Is that also spicy?
Maybe I should have been more careful with that.
It's basically salt.
Very messy, very good.
I really like how sloppy this is.
That's not a sentence I thought I'd ever hear myself say,
But I love how much gravy there is,
How much sauce is just exploding out.
However, I think the shrimp takes it.
The size of the shrimp, the amount of them,
It's just a beautiful spicy batter.
It pains me to agree with you,
Because you know how much I love a sloppy meal of any type.
Sloppy Giuseppe, pizza express.
Oh no, I've forgotten about that.
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Now back to New Orleans and those incredible sandwiches.
Okay, so these Boudin balls,
I want to see what's inside this, it's really heavy.
Oh, this is that sausage that we tried.
Whoa, smell that.
That's really strong, intense flavour.
All right, let's go.
Oh baby.
Oh, wow.
Yeah.
Oh hell yeah.
That is so good.
Boudin balls.
Have you had those before?
I wanna dip that in a bit of cheese and gravy.
Oh my gosh.
Luke, this is gonna blow your mind.
All in one.
No, don't go all in one, don't go all in one.
You're good, I wouldn't make,
Oh he's gone for it, he's gone for it.
What do you think?
Oh wow, yeah.
There you go.
That makes sense, no, but there's way more flavour,
In that than a scotch egg.
Next up Josh, red beans and rice.
Okay.
To me, a little more like brown beans and rice.
Yeah, baked beans are more red than that.
Whoa, smell that.
Whoa, again, so much like spice.
It's got a smoky barbecue smell to it.
Smoky, that's what that smell is.
Whoa.
Gosh, that's a lot.
Wow.
I really like that.
Is there meat in that or is it just all beans?
There's so much flavour.
Almost tastes like some kind of smoked sausage or something.
Oh yeah, boom. There you go.
Found it.
There's bits of smoked sausage in there.
Holy crap, man.
Okay.
Coming from a nation that eats bloody beans all the time.
This is putting us to shame.
Luke, try that.
Bam.
It's like instant, right?
Bam.
We've come into a sandwich place,
And had some of the best beans in my entire life.
That's mad.
There's one more thing we need to try.
Let's do it.
The most visually shocking menu item
I think that we've been served on this entire trip.
A whole muffalata.
Do you know any of the history behind these, bad boys?
No.
Is it heavy?
Oh wow.
What?
It looks like a flipping giant pie of sorts.
That is the most absurd looking sandwich I've ever seen.
It's like if Subway took the entire tub of filling and just emptied it.
Just emptied it into a giant pizza.
That's a very big sandwich.
Cheers mate.
Let's do it.
I got mostly ham.
Woah.
There's olives in there.
A lot of cheese on the top.
A layer of pickles and stuff, and then all these different ham and salamis.
They've definitely gone with the more is more strategy.
Oh there's so much going on.
For me, that doesn't hold anything up against the po'boy.
You're not a fan! I flipping love that!
This almost feels like a rich boy.
What do you mean? Why?
This is not a sandwich designed for someone on the picket line.
That's like half a pig in terms of ham.
There's a lot going on.
It's just a lot heavier.
The poboy, even though it's deep fried, it felt like you could smash that whole thing.
This is heavy, I mean it's intense. Look at the size of it.
There's so much going on.
Yeah?
Your extended family.
Have we got any more poboys, Josh?
We have one more.
You don't want to end on the mofolata.
I can leave the mofolata.
Wow, this po'boy is massive.
This is one of their speciality poboys.
Oh ok, and they filled this with their own sauces as well.
Look at that!
This is hot and overflowing again.
Americans man!
We put one or two slices of something in a sandwich, that's it.
That's a sandwich.
It means you can eat it with dignity.
Americans just love to just stuff it full.
If possible to eat with dignity.
Yeah, that's true.
Dignity is not valued in the same way as the UK.
Look at the size of the shrimp in there.
Alright, let's go for it.
Okay.
Oh my gosh.
Wow, I really like that.
I think the first one, for me,
Overall it felt a little bit too dry.
Whereas this, the dry bread just absorbed
all that sauce in there.
The result is fantastic.
Oh, Louisiana, you've done it again.
Just completely outdone yourself.
Poboys, call me a pofan.
How do we have Subway all over the UK?
But we don't have anything like that.
Yeah, it's been a trip, man.
What a wild ride.
It's been amazing.
Absolutely incredible.
Everything we've eaten has felt like it's been better than the last thing.
Way to an Englishman's heart.
Sandwich.
A sandwich.
End on a high note, this sandwich, absolutely incredible.
Just cut down the number of ingredients a little bit so you can eat it with dignity,
And I'm happy.
In the meantime, see you jolly soon.
See you later.