Leidenheimer Baking Company

But true Houston po'boy connoisseurs will remember original New Orleans po'boys on Main Street just south of downtown, a taste of the Crescent City that closed around two thousand five due to construction on the light rail line and the rebuilding of the nearby Spur five hundred twenty-seven leading into Midtown.

Fortunately, the po'boy turnaround started by Katrina lives on with excellent versions at restaurants like BB's TexOrleans, which imports its bread from Leidenheimer Baking Company in New Orleans.

Boudin has had a similar cycle of rise, fall, rise in Houston.

Of course, boudin has been in Southeast Texas almost as long as Acadians have been in Southwest Louisiana.

Yats will just say they were locals.

And they're especially known for this Leidenheimer po-boy ad where the two of them are eating a po-boy sandwich from opposite ends.

But he had a much bigger life and career than that.

And Allison and Michael explore the breadth of Bunny and show us how deeply entwined he and his work are with the identity of New Orleans.