They were selling them at a little booth in the airport and we finally broke down and had one. They gave it with a glass of powdered sugar so you could dip it in.

This is only a long-distance guess but I'm thinkin' that what Bel had at the airport was a beignet (pronounced ben-YAY) rather than a hushpuppy. Beignets are normally served with lots of powdered sugar; hushpuppies are not. The dough for beignets is made of white flour; the dough for hushpuppies of a mixture of corn meal and white flour. The beignet is a bit more like a doughnut. N'est-ce pas?