Missy Andrade, from Lafayette, says she first heard the term “padookie” when she was in the sixth grade and met a group of dancers from New Iberia who joined her Lafayette dance studio.
“Britney Sonnier asked me one day if I had a padookie,” Andrade said.
Over the years, whenever Andrade heard the word again, she’d ask, “Where are you from?”
The answer was always the same: New Iberia…