![]() Filmed in Hamilton’s FirstOntario Centre, the video has the band sneaking into the stadium to play music at center ice. ![]() Today, The Trews released their pandemic anthem I Wanna Play, an ode to what we’ve all felt since the beginning of lockdown. THE EDITED PRESS RELEASE: “It’s been over a year since the world came to a halt, and although things aren’t quite safe yet, there is light at the end of the tunnel. ![]() Byrd enjoys the sunrise - and things are just heating up here in your latest Weekend Roundup. That said, I’m curious, for any Louisiana fans reading this.T he Trews came to play, Kitt Wakeley has friends up and down the line, Justina and Nikita do the right thing, Perdurabo is off the chain, M. When it comes to other cooking, I prefer to control the spices myself and more often than not, I’m sticking to salt and black pepper. Truth is, I don’t use either one of them that much, unless I’m boiling crabs or crawfish. I also have a cousin who works at Slap Ya Mama. Au contraire, ma cher! I got people there!” And she said, “Who?” And I said, “Dis one, dat one and da other one.” And she said, “Mais, I know them!” And then she sent me a case of Slap Ya Mama. The woman said, “We’re from a small town you probably never heard of,” and I was all, “Honh, honh, honh. Slap Ya Mama, made by Walker & Son’s, had been handing out samples at a Chile Pepper Event, so I called up someone at Slap Ya Mama and the inevitable happened. My very first news story for Advertising Age (something they thought was a risk since I was just a copy editor) was about Chile Pepper Magazine and the zesty food movement. Slap Ya Mama is made in Ville Platte, where a lot of my mama’s people live. Before Frank’s hot sauce came up with the brilliant tag line, “I put that shit on everything,” people from Louisiana put that shit on everything. I tried to teach New Yorkers for decades how to pronounce Tony Chachere’s (phonetic attemp: sa-sher-ee). I grew up with Tony’s (I also went to school with Tony’s grandkids). Tony’s is made in Opelousas, which is where I’m from. I’m afraid to wade into this particular fight. ![]() (In fact, Slap Ya Mama was created because someone wanted a seasoning blend with less salt.) Slap Ya Mama loyalists say it’s better than Tony’s because it’s got less salt. Unlike Tony’s, it’s a lot easier for the uninitiated to pronounce. Slap Ya Mama is similar to Tony Chachere’s. SEE ALSO: Talkin’ Funny Louisiana Style and More Talkin’ Funny Louisiana StyleĪnother thing that happened in the last month or so was that I came across a line of Slap Ya Mama products at a World Market here in Brooklyn. Except Tony Chachere’s doesn’t taste like a dusty sack of stale spices. For those of you from the Eastern Atlantic coast, you should think along the lines of Old Bay. Tony Chachere’s is a seasoning blend, a magical little canister of dust to spice up your food. If you’re not from Louisiana, allow me to explain. One, the first rule of Trader Joe’s is “Get the hell out of Trader Joes.” Two, I knew that TJ’s didn’t have Tony Chachere’s. I should take a moment to point out that, defying centuries of Wheaton genetic coding, I didn’t insert myself into this conversation. “It’s a Louisiana seasoning blend,” the Brit said. Trying to find something at Trader Joe’s, I overheard a man with a British accent asking a store employee if TJ’s carried something called Tony Shasheer’s. ![]()
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