Natchitoches, Louisiana

This is where we ate last week on our field trip to Natchitoches, LA and went in a bee line to the Home of the Meat Pies, Lasynone's on Second Street.
The salad bar was one  unlike any I've ever seen:

You had various mixed salads such as marinated corn, potato salad, black eyed pea, pickled items, etc. but none of the more chain de rigueur type things.  And the meat pie was HUGE: