Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas: Flavors of Success with Hal the Cajun Lady
Have you ever wondered how a distinctive accent and a love for cooking could turn someone into a social media star? Join us for a heartwarming chat with Hal, better known as the Cajun Lady Accent, as she shares her incredible story. From her humble beginnings in Church Point to her rise as a beloved online personality, Hal's journey is filled with delightful anecdotes and an authentic passion for her Cajun roots. You won't want to miss her tales of how her charming accent and unique culinary persona created a worldwide following.
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Welcome, welcome into a special episode. Like we are so excited to have our friend with us today, I'm so excited to have your full ass.
Speaker 2:I'm very excited too Okay, how the Cajun Lady Accent is with us in Chris.
Speaker 3:Logomedia's studio today.
Speaker 2:But first let's talk about how the Cajun Lady Accent.
Speaker 1:Yes, you are our grand sponsor. That's good to talk about me. We're going to talk about you right in front of you. Oh, that's good, Because you are our grand sponsor for February. She is. Did y'all know? Okay, first of all, if you don't know who this lady is, you have to go on all the social media platforms Facebook, Snapchat, TikTok. She even got a Snapchat.
Speaker 3:That is originally, where I started on a Snapchat Come on Doing cooking videos when it was not how the Cajun lady accent, when it was just how.
Speaker 1:What.
Speaker 2:Oh, how interesting, that is interesting.
Speaker 3:I just recently made it public about a year ago.
Speaker 2:Oh, okay, okay, okay, but that was where I originally started, it was just for my friends and family.
Speaker 3:Now it's Wow.
Speaker 1:Wow, wow, wow. Now he's worldwide, worldwide. So go see how h-a-l. Okay, the cajun lady accent um. Search that on all the social medias and you're gonna find her. She does some amazing cooking videos, like always making me hungry, okay. And then she has a whole line of seasonings. Look, if you're watching our youtube videos right now which I hope you are, you're gonna our YouTube videos right now, which I hope you are you're going to see all these things. And behind me we have some more things on the shelves that she offers. We have a whole line of Cajun seasonings and they're all no MSGs and not too much salt either, which is hard to find in a Cajun seasoning. So go check out her website, howthecajunladyaccentcom, and you're going to be able to see everything she has to offer.
Speaker 1:And thank you for being our grand sponsor for February.
Speaker 3:Yes, thank you so much. I'm very excited to do that for y'all.
Speaker 2:All right. So we have so many questions. Oh my goodness. First off was why isn't there alcohol to put in my coffee this morning? Hold on one second. You got it in your car, Surely. How's going to come out of?
Speaker 3:a little something. I really have some if you want.
Speaker 2:But no, I said I have to pick on her. I really wanted to. Surely is nothing.
Speaker 1:Well, every time we get together and do a coffee visit with her. She brings the rum, chata or the fireball or something, eggnog.
Speaker 3:Everything I brought was on occasion to the holiday that was happening, because that's not really my normals. I preferably would prefer whiskey in the coffee.
Speaker 1:But she makes it special for us when we get together, Like because she knows well, maybe because she knows I can't handle whiskey, so she'll bring the sweet stuff for us.
Speaker 3:I'm trying to make you fit in to being from Church Point.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I guess. So I'm not a Church Point native like them two.
Speaker 2:I don't be drinking the whiskey, but listen, the other day I saw you posted JT Millick, open up that thing. She said I'll open my mouth.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm talking about. You open your mouth.
Speaker 2:You did. That's what you said. I opened my mouth. Yeah, they popped open that whiskey barrel.
Speaker 3:Oh, yes, and you was like I opened my mouth. I opened my mouth, I was catching it. You know how everybody says I wish I could smell or taste. Smell a vision, taste a vision. Well, I was you already. I didn't want none to go to waste.
Speaker 2:You already knew what that was going to taste like. Oh yeah, I loved it. All right, so how you? Originally from Church Point.
Speaker 3:Yeah, all my life.
Speaker 2:And I just find it interesting because we did go to O&P together for a short time. And our first question well, we want to know how did the Cajun Lady get started?
Speaker 3:We've kind of had this conversation, but I want to know how did the Cajun lady get started? We've kind of had this conversation, but I want to know. We've had it privately but yeah, yeah, so how? First of all comes from my youngest uh, not my youngest, my youngest, oldest brother. That could not say my real name, which I don't go by, so I won't share it with y'all but, um, he gave me the name of Hal when I was 14. I am now 43. I mean, I know I look 20-something.
Speaker 1:Absolutely Not a day over 21. Just like us, not a day over 21.
Speaker 3:So since 14 to now, I've been called Hal my whole entire life, throughout school, I mean everywhere, every single place I went. The Cajun lady came from. Oh, you got a Cajun accent, you so Cajun, your accent's so flat man, you Cajun, you, okay, and I'm a lady, so yeah, yeah, the Cajun lady.
Speaker 3:Cajun lady, there you go I gave it that name, because I gave myself that name about two and a half years ago because I was like I'm going to do this social media thing. But I need to give myself a name. That just in case I wouldn't regret. Regret, you know now now, when I said just in case, I never once thought, just in case what happened would actually happen, cause I didn't expect none of this in a million years. But that's where my name comes from.
Speaker 2:Well, that's what I'm. I was going to say like okay, so you set out to be a social media influencer, to be a social media influencer.
Speaker 3:I hate to say the word influencer, but that's what it is, but that's what they consider me as well a public figure influencer. I really didn't set out to be that. I'm going to be honest, where I set out was, I was trying to pick up our business, work business, showing off our cookware and all that. And then, of course, I like to cook, I love to eat. So, I started doing cooking videos in the cookware.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and it's so relatable because that's our culture.
Speaker 2:You know everybody, it's so our culture, we love to eat.
Speaker 1:We love to watch people cook. We love to eat other people's food.
Speaker 2:And we fascinate people. Yeah, we absolutely fascinate people.
Speaker 3:Actually, if we don't, cook it the way they think we're supposed to. Oh, absolutely, we will talk about that, isn't that true?
Speaker 2:I'm checking my babysitter. I'm sorry.
Speaker 1:I'm not trying to be rude.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, check that you know it's. So it is a fascinating culture. Okay, the accent, the accent, it just it fascinates people. Somebody told somebody posted that they never heard the way I said the word kajan, just itched their brain.
Speaker 3:They had never heard that word before. I just told you all that, kajan. I'm like I can't say it not.
Speaker 2:everybody understands that, Then you're not from here.
Speaker 3:We some kajan.
Speaker 2:Because kajan is the word.
Speaker 3:Yeah, so Kajan from church pern P, because Cajan is the word yeah.
Speaker 2:So Cajan from church Pern Pern.
Speaker 3:Pern the.
Speaker 2:Pern, the Pern, you know, yes, de la Gris. So okay, so the Cajan lady was born two and a half years ago. Y'all were trying to, you know, kind of grow your business. How's that going now? I'm taking another take on that one.
Speaker 3:Yeah, how's that going now? I'm trying to find time to sleep, eat. I'm losing. I'm losing sleep. I'm losing my eating benefits. I know it sounds crazy. I cook a lot, but when you're so busy you don't even find time to eat. Well, who's eating all that food? Um, y'all think it's a lot, and that's what people don't understand is my part, I'm using a small. Watch me cook. This weekend I cooked 18 pounds of chili. That was for the public. They ate it all, yeah, but I cook in small increments. That's another thing they tell me. Oh, that's who. You eat like a mouse, what you fed a mouse. Two babies, two adults ate off of it four times actually, because that's the thing, and I just can eat it that one time for supper.
Speaker 3:I ate it for dinner the next day right for lunch the next day and then again for supper the next night, because I'm not wasting.
Speaker 1:Right, or I froze it, you know yeah.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, but yeah. Yeah, so when you cook another, Thank God I froze because you know, after that snow days I had a lot of stuff I pulled out of the freezer.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:So I could go play in the snow and not cook.
Speaker 3:Absolutely. That was fun. So like when, when I cook at the stores, normally I'm going to feed the customers that come in, or something like that, like y'all.
Speaker 1:And I love going. And when you open the door, if you smell something cooking, I'm like oh, how's cooking in the back? Yes.
Speaker 3:Yes, and listen. They look forward to that If I go away. Oh, I seen you was cooking. Can I have a plate?
Speaker 2:Yeah, sure, I love that, got a pot big enough to feed all of us. So let's do it. I just love you know. We talk about how we both from Church Point, like never in a million years we didn't really set out to be social media on social media, as I don't want to say big but like where we are, you know, and then I still feel so small.
Speaker 3:I can tell you something, though from when I started years ago putting videos on my Snap and, every once in a while, throwing it on my personal Facebook, I got picked at.
Speaker 2:Oh, I'm sure Trying to do cooking videos, oh yeah.
Speaker 3:Trying to do cooking videos. Look at you. What you think you're doing, mm-hmm.
Speaker 2:Oh, they still do that to us. What you think.
Speaker 3:I'm doing now? I don't know.
Speaker 2:I don't know. I'm still a person. I'm making a living on my fake job.
Speaker 1:You know it's just the world we're living in right now. You know you can be a small town girl and be on social media cooking now and have an audience that wants it.
Speaker 3:You know what I'm saying?
Speaker 2:It's just different and I think you don't have to be discovered anymore. People just discover you. You're so discoverable. I know it's wild.
Speaker 3:I love the Food Network and I always wanted to be on the Food Network at one point in my life and I got called to compete in the World Food Championship last year. See, I didn't know that until.
Speaker 1:I saw it on your website when I went look.
Speaker 3:And that was just amazing. It was the greatest opportunity in the world. But nobody even worries about that, no more or whatever. Like it's not a big deal. It's not a big deal for me. It was just a freaking wonderful opportunity and experience that I had and I would do it again.
Speaker 2:You would oh yeah, I thought you was going to say that was a whole lot. I wasn't.
Speaker 3:There was a whole lot of not what we do here. It was not the same.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 3:I didn't. Typical Kate.
Speaker 2:Typical Kat Jen.
Speaker 3:I did not read the directions like I was supposed to. I did the wrong thing. I thought I was cooking a rice and gravy and they had told me it would need to be like a stir fry or a noodle meal. Because I did noodles and rice categories. So I had to turn my rice and gravy into a rice and gravy stir fry. First time for everything. It was good, but it was just not what they were expecting, because they never ate rice and gravy before. Yeah, wow, that's the lion.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and we can talk about that a whole other day to explain to y'all.
Speaker 3:That was an experience, but it was wonderful. Well, that's good. I cried, I was of happiness, like just yeah. They had to slow me down running down the aisle with my food. I was running. They're like you have to Is there a video of this. I have to find it. There's videos, all of them. I would love.
Speaker 2:I've seen this. They all slow me down.
Speaker 3:I had a sous chef with me. They were dragging me. You have to stop. You are going too fast. I was trying to beat my time. I mean you're against the clock. They all video me Blair's running down with the camera like I need to see this, you know the nerve being in me, oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That's how it would be too. I need, I'm gonna find it. I would love to see that. All right, let's take a break to talk about acadia, parish cajun harvest country, acadia tour, acadia tourism it is acadia tourism yes, um, we get, we are well into mardi gras season. Yes, we are, um, and let's let's just talk about all the things that we can do in Acadia, parish, february 15th, the Rain, mardi Gras Parade and After Party, february 22nd, the Courier.
Speaker 2:Courier baby In Mermantau. In Mermantau, mermantau Cove. Yeah, march 2nd. Right here in Church Point is the Courier de Mardi Gras. Woo, we're all going to be there, we'll all be there. Plan your visit to Acadia Parish during the entire season through Fat Tuesday, mardi Gras Day at AcadiaTourismcom. Slash Mardi Gras. Go see all that you can do in. Acadia Parish.
Speaker 1:And let me just say this is going to be a different experience than your New Orleans-style Mardi Gras.
Speaker 3:Oh, absolutely Much better.
Speaker 1:I mean, if you like that, it's great, if you like the carnival type of thing, but this is a Cajun country style Mardi Gras. You just have to experience it in your life. I'm just going to say that, so make plans to come okay. Thank you, acadia Parish Tourism, cajun Harvest Country for being our sponsor this month.
Speaker 2:Thank you, all right, so we have how the Cajun Lady and it started two and a half years ago. Everything is popping right now. What's your best seller we have? Okay, she's our grand, grand sponsor, so we can plug her as much as we want, but let me just tell y'all, I, I, she has brought me almost everything on this table and we actually use it, though, like I don't want you to think we just plug in it because no, sponsoring us like we use this stuff.
Speaker 1:We like this stuff absolutely.
Speaker 3:Mama's approved and it's a great feeling whenever they send me a video that they use my products and I see them doing videos using it.
Speaker 1:It's a great feeling it's the same type of feeling we get when we see somebody drinking coffee from one of our cups.
Speaker 2:It warms your heart, it does, it does or bakes a bread with Virgie I drink from your cup all the time you do.
Speaker 3:I love it.
Speaker 2:Every time I'm like she's going to say it, she's going to say it.
Speaker 3:I'm waiting for it, yeah.
Speaker 2:All right. So what's your best seller? So?
Speaker 3:to be honest, right now I have no clue exactly how many products I have Y'all really caught me off guard. There's a lot, 16 or 18 products. This is very, very strange that I can't tell you all, but because I have like 10 to 15 in the making right now and this is no joke.
Speaker 3:That I've been trying to push out since last year. But I have a large variety of products so I have about. So my three best sellers in general would be one of my all-purpose seasonings Would be my Cajun Waltz and my Cajun Spicy Two-Step and my Creole Zydeco, because there's a different one for everybody. Some people like spicy, some people don't, some people like all the flavor and some people just want basic Cajun, so those for sure. My Mexican seasoning is great. It's not a bestseller because people around here don't cook Mexican.
Speaker 1:And that's one of my favorite things, that's one of my favorites.
Speaker 3:It sells, but it's just not going to be. You can tell whenever the people run out, because I started getting orders for that at the same time. They bought it at the same time. Now they're out. You know it's crazy, but spaghetti is one of my best sellers. And my seafood bowl Seafood bowl is actually blowing out of this the liquid or the the?
Speaker 3:liquid and the seasoning, both the liquid and the seasoning, both of them. The seasoning is not as much salt as normal as your average seafood bowl, okay, and it's got that kick, it's got that flavor, it's not too spicy and there's no MSG.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:This is a big deal. No MSG. So you got that. And then my liquor bowl. I have probably averaged a little more spice and kick to my liquor ball than most of the average, but it's good.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they keep coming back for more. They keep coming back for more Crawfish season it goes on everything.
Speaker 3:It's not just for your water. If y'all watch my videos close, y'all can see I spray him.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, I did notice that.
Speaker 3:I spray everything.
Speaker 2:When I cook crawfish, etouffee, gumbo, seafood g, oh nice. I like hearing all the different ways you can use it because, like, even I had a pack of the cracker uh dip okay, uh, the fiesta cracker dip. My daughter is obsessed with the mexican uh dip mix and she's like, can I please make a dip? Can I please make a dip? And I said this on another. I'm like, listen, your mama can't eat that much dip or I will blow up, okay, because it's so good, like I could you cannot control yourself yes, so the cracker.
Speaker 2:I only had a pack of cracker and I was like, listen, you could try the cracker, maybe what it does the cracker mix.
Speaker 3:Listen, it's still good, baby, you can do it too, speaking of the cracker, and and you could also do half a bag too, and it does as long as your mayo and your sour cream's good. If your sour cream's good for two months, you can make that and put that in the icebox for two months.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it stays as good as the meat. It stays good.
Speaker 3:So the Cajun firecracker mix is a cracker mix but we use it to cook with. I put it in things to bake, I make Chex mix with it, with my butter, my garlic butter, oh my garlic butter is the best seller, by the way.
Speaker 1:You got that right here. Speaking of it's good.
Speaker 3:It's like liquid gold is what they tell me, and now the seafood ball butter is rolling too, when they figure it out. You can do all kinds of things with that.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. I keep needing to try the liquid butter on vegetables.
Speaker 2:Oh, it's so good. It's so good. I put that in my green beans. Like you know, when you're cooking your green beans, I put that in my green beans.
Speaker 3:So let me just tell you, it's not just a dip in butter. Yeah, you can fry with it, bake with it, you can inject with it. What else you can do? Oh, blacken it with it.
Speaker 1:Okay.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and baste with it. You can baste anything you want, I we should have brought some dips to snack on.
Speaker 2:You know, I thought about bringing some, because we made one last night. We didn't need the ice chip, we would have needed a cold beer to wash all that down with, oh man. That's for another party, Okay washes.
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Speaker 2:Yeah, now you know all right um what else. What else are we going to talk about? What's going on?
Speaker 1:yeah, let's see what. What's going on in your life right now. So you have lots of products in development um, the store you work at gary mott that's your full-time job really. But now content creation is also right along with that full-time job, shipping, and they. You ship out all your stuff yourself, like you go here and there where you can to support different causes and make appearances and all that, like I don't know when you sleep.
Speaker 3:That's what I said. I'm losing sleep Too much. Yeah, it's a good problem to have. But Then my mind don't stop, so I'm constantly thinking, even when I'm sleeping. I'm constantly thinking about my next move. Speaking of my next move, I am currently working on a cookbook, oh great.
Speaker 2:That's so exciting.
Speaker 3:It's exciting, but it's been ripping my ass for the last year.
Speaker 1:That's a big undertaking, big, big, big.
Speaker 3:Yeah, wow. I'm going to try to put a little story in it.
Speaker 1:I think that's. Oh yeah. If you can tie recipes to stories like that is the magic to me.
Speaker 2:It is.
Speaker 1:People love to my mama's blah, blah blah. My mama's blah blah, blah, you blah blah, blah, blah, blah, blah blah blah, blah, blah, blah you know, you have to tie that together.
Speaker 2:A silk agent. Let's talk about the aspect people might not know about being an influencer. What does it mean to you to be labeled an influencer? How do you live that out in your everyday life? What does that look like to you and the people that you meet?
Speaker 3:well, I for sure continue to um be thankful for it. I never forget where I came from, um it is. It is different, though, because everywhere I go, I'm stopped you recognize at this point, yeah, even out of state. It doesn't matter where I go, but, um, I'm not complaining about it. The 80 times that I got to stop and take a picture or say hi, or say something.
Speaker 3:I just know that now I can't ever leave my house in no regular clothes, in no thrown together clothes, because I'm going to be on somebody's social media platform. Somebody will be like oh I met Hal and she was in rags. I have to do myself up now because it used to. I didn't care I could go out in some old clothes from cutting the grass full of grass. I can't do that no more because I mean I could but I don't want to know.
Speaker 1:I know what you mean.
Speaker 2:I know it.
Speaker 3:I'm very, very blessed and thankful and I never, ever expected this or even asked for this, but I guess God knows what we need in our life and he gives it to us when we need it, he does.
Speaker 2:When we need it the most. Well, and that's just before this we were talking about, like, how we don't realize how we impact people, you know, and what does that mean to us? Because I know for us it's like when we meet people or we get good messages. She sent me one the other day and it was like I just listened to this. I needed to listen to that episode. Y'all have no idea what it did for me and she sent me. This is why that's all you have to say. This is why we keep going. This is what fuels the Cajun Mama far is just being able to impact so many people and not even realize.
Speaker 3:I've told y'all that a couple times too. I have to play catch up, but when I do, I'm like man yeah, but you do that too.
Speaker 1:You're in that, You're away, yeah and even if it's not even as deep as a spiritual or faith journey, but even at the surface level, to make someone laugh, to brighten their day to make them think of their momo, Cause that's I know.
Speaker 3:y'all get told that. I get told that constantly and it's like I know what it's like to miss you, momo.
Speaker 1:Yes.
Speaker 3:So they miss their momo. So they hearing and seeing their momo in all of us.
Speaker 1:It's a comfort, it's a comfort.
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 3:And that's a privilege At first. People are like oh, you want to be reminded of a momo. Yeah, I do want to be reminded of a momo. If it makes somebody smile or happy, I'm okay with that. I don't care what I remind them of Exactly.
Speaker 1:It's a simpler time, it's a simpler, it's a feeling and emotion and no, and not everybody gets to no not everybody had that, you know.
Speaker 2:Uh, not everybody is growing up with a grandparent that knows how to cook full-fledged meals, and or, you know, like I'm teaching my kids how to how to cook, you know, but my mama and my mama taught me how, my daddy you know. So it's like it's a thing around here but some people that watch you have no idea how to turn on a burner, yeah, no. And so, like you, you showed them how to use the drip pot.
Speaker 3:I had never used a drip pot you know that's another video on that they keep asking. A man called me today before I left to come over here, um, and he is 56 years old and he just went to a slaughterhouse and bought a calf steak and he's going to cook it and he wants me to know. Thank you, because I learned how to cook this from you. What? 56 years old, from Lake Charles. It's amazing. I hear this all the time. I could tell you all that because it just happened, but I hear this all the time. I have thousands of messages I'm still trying to open. I'm looking for somebody to help me right now. Some messages I'm still trying to open. I'm looking for somebody hard to help me right now. So if you're listening in or you're watching in, I'm going to get to your message, I promise.
Speaker 3:It just might be two months later, but I will answer.
Speaker 2:It's hard, it's hard to get to everybody and I can't even imagine, especially because we get asked like do you have a red bean and rice recipe? I made that, whatever, but you know like you'll have to tag them in, or but they they're always constantly asking I wish you would make a gumbo. Well, I made a gumbo two weeks ago, you know, like here here's the video right To get to all of those. It's, it's hard and then that's that's all you do.
Speaker 1:My videos are not cooking videos, they're like baking or whatever. So if I get a message, it's like I need a good, authentic recipe for blah blah blah. I'm like go to this web page go to how the cake go.
Speaker 3:Find how, because I know she's done a video on it, so I sent them to you page all the time and it's gonna be good. Speaking of bacon, I've seen you bake the sourdough king cake and I thought I was gonna have to sample it listen I don't see it here. Listen.
Speaker 2:You see, Now you know how.
Speaker 3:I feel he's at me all the time.
Speaker 1:I'm so and I'm like I'm so sorry. By the time, I gave a hunk to my in-laws and I gave a hunk to my mom and daddy. They right there. Yeah, we just needed a little bite, and then we she ate the rest.
Speaker 2:Listen, even the other day she made a king cake. Boudin king cake Never brought me none, you lie, you was there, we made it together. You lie Now quit lying on me. Y'all did get some of that. I actually ate some for breakfast this morning with some eggs. It was good, so good, it was so damn good, yeah. So oh, you know what you need to make.
Speaker 3:Pepper jelly I do have. I've made it before and I do have maybe intentions of making some later on in life. But they have so many people I don't want to step on them.
Speaker 1:There is a lot.
Speaker 3:Yeah, I'm going to pull up. I understand that we're going to pull up.
Speaker 2:Trade your mom a pepper jelly. You want to start cooking all that.
Speaker 3:No, I made it myself. Many years I used to do the LSU and the Mardi Gras and everything.
Speaker 1:That's a lot to keep up with. You can't say yes to everything. No, you know, sometimes it's good to keep your menu.
Speaker 2:You need to make a ranch seasoning. You need to make a like she don't have enough, but I have those in the making, so it's okay. See, like she don't have enough, but I have those in the making.
Speaker 1:so it's okay, See, she's already thought of it.
Speaker 3:Those are already in the making. They've been in the making. I'm just behind.
Speaker 2:It's okay.
Speaker 3:Y'all going to be my guinea pigs.
Speaker 2:A good ranch. It's okay, we're waiting, we're here for it.
Speaker 3:We know it's going to be good before you know. Yeah, I'm going to make.
Speaker 1:We'll be glad to be a guinea pig.
Speaker 2:We always ready to be a guinea pig for you All. Right, we talking about Acadia, parish Harvest Country again.
Speaker 1:Yes, Cajun Harvest Country.
Speaker 2:Cajun Harvest Country.
Speaker 1:Head on over to AcadiaTourismcom so that you can stay up to date on all the Mardi Gras festivities that's going on in February. Y'all Now Mardi Gras is actually in March Okay, early March, but you still gonna find so much going on this month in February, like now is prime time, king cake season. Go get your clothes, go get your costumes and all these things and your beads, and you'll be ready okay, time to gear up.
Speaker 2:Time to gear up. There's a lot of different places where king cakes are available. Uh, the cake born crawly donut queen in crawly go trolls donuts boy. We already talked about them. Love us. Some Places where king cakes are available the Cake Bar in Crowley Donut Queen in Crowley Go Trolls Donuts Boy. We already talked about them.
Speaker 1:Love us, some Go Trolls Rice.
Speaker 2:City Kitchen in Crowley, rudolph's Bakery in Crowley, snack Shack in Iota, sprinkles of Joy Crowley, the Vanilla Bean in Crowley, y'all and around here.
Speaker 1:You can find your king cakes at a lot of different grocery stores too, which is nice and convenient. Head on over to Lions Point Country Store, the Piggly Wiggly in Church Point, Rice City Supermarket in Crowley and of course, our beloved Votro's Mini Mart in Church Point has them good Votro's king cakes oh yeah, you got one.
Speaker 1:The other day for Ria's birthday I did a chocolate one. It was ready to go. Huh, it was gone, gone. They had none left. Her class devoured it. So I'll bet yeah, um. But you can head on over to acadiatourismcom, slash mardi gras and you'll see a full listing of king cake locations, parades and events.
Speaker 2:Everything in one place, everything all right, well, I'm not done talking to you because I had like a. I had like a things I definitely wanted to talk to you about what the word influencer means to you, how you got started. We talked about that what.
Speaker 1:What I got. A question, I got started because I was bored at home too, did you?
Speaker 3:just start during COVID or was after. I think it was shortly after. It wasn't even during COVID. I think it was when I was stuck at home with a broken shoulder. Okay, I had surgery and I was one-armed and bored and needed to go back to work and I couldn't. So I was like, screw this, I'm cooking, I'm hungry. You know what? I'm putting this shit everywhere. Why not? I guess I had the courage I had just got out of the hospital, I had more courage to post it.
Speaker 2:Maybe Looked like crap, that's so funny, like, because a lot of people are like okay, but I don't have that, I'm so nervous or I don't have that kind of confidence, but like where do you think that comes from? You don't have to.
Speaker 3:I contemplated on doing this for many, many years. Okay, Because, when I used to do no, not to become an influencer, just to post my cookies. Yeah yeah, Because when I used to do it, like I said, even on my snack, I would get clowned about it all Putting that what you need to show that for you looked at it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, you looked at it and you might have liked it, because you're asking me. Yeah, I know, huh, maybe you're interested.
Speaker 3:People put everything People put. They put their vehicles, they put anything.
Speaker 1:And if you ain't got nothing, nice to say you keep on scrolling, keep scrolling.
Speaker 3:That's where it doesn't happen, though I know there's a lot of keyboard warriors.
Speaker 2:I was thinking that, though, why is it that we'll scroll and we'll be like we see everybody's comments and they'll say love this, love this, love this, and then we stop and we look at that, the ugly one, for the longest time, and that's the one I want to be like, that's the one I want to come back on. We forget about all the all the good stuff.
Speaker 3:I I keep saying when I see those negative comments, you, your one negative comment is gonna um not outweigh the 80,000 positive comments I've just seen. Yeah, I will not let the devil stand in my way.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely yeah, it's a little fiery dart, god is good and God is strong, and I'm going to just go with everything good and forget about the devil.
Speaker 2:That's right. Oh, I love that. Yes, that's good, because it's hard.
Speaker 3:The devil ain't going to take my plate of food from me.
Speaker 1:No, not my joy neither. Not my joy, not my joy, neither.
Speaker 3:No.
Speaker 2:I just I don't know. I hope it doesn't matter whether you are an influencer or not. Don't let those negative comments get to you, because we get some dumb ones Like just straight up dumb.
Speaker 3:My teeth are fake, my hair hair is fake and my accent is fake. Oh, you faker you just a faker.
Speaker 1:How would you?
Speaker 3:help me pull these two out and take them out come here.
Speaker 2:I know that hair is real. I did you curled all three teeth is real. My hair is real because I curled all a whole mile of it. Oh yes, you're ready to curl it again. I'm ready to curl it again. Speaking of, can we bring that up? Yeah, sure, let's bring that up. How is on our Mardi Gras court this year the church point.
Speaker 3:I'm still in shock over it.
Speaker 2:And I'm just so excited for you because, like, what a good person to stand, yeah, to represent our little town To represent our town Yep and look at that. Look, I mean people is coming to Church Point. She posted herself at the snow cone stand, grandma Laverne's snow cone stand. She just goes all over and she shares Church Point with with us.
Speaker 3:I try to share everything I can and I know I'm behind, but church point, I'm coming for you. It's okay.
Speaker 2:Listen, she's got it in the queue, you yeah absolutely yeah, she's got it in the queue, so um so, how do you feel about that?
Speaker 3:I feel like I'm very, very honored and, um, you know how y'all told me when I come in. Y'all was still in the podcast to be quiet and I said, oh Lord, how can I do that?
Speaker 1:I can't be quiet.
Speaker 3:She was texting me. I ain't going to be quiet. I'm going up on stage. And I'm going to be so proud to represent our hometown. And I'm not going to be embarrassed or shy. I don't even care what I look like. Let's just pray I don't fall.
Speaker 2:You ain't going to fall.
Speaker 1:No, I'm excited for that Wear your little sparkly tennis sneaks with that dress. Well, I figured.
Speaker 3:I'd wear those for after, but I'm pretty sure I needed to wear something nicer before.
Speaker 2:So walk on the stage and you're going to wear some shoes, some heels.
Speaker 1:I'm thinking about some won't fall.
Speaker 3:You're going to tip over and you know, y'all already know that Y'all already know this, this country, bumpkin ain't going to wear that Y'all already know you're going to tip over. What Tip over before? I even got tipsy. Yeah, save that for after. But also, most importantly, I'm because the Cajun Mama's going to be at my table.
Speaker 2:We're going to be there. We're going to be there and we I mean, we've gone to the ball in the past and it's always a fun time. And this year they having who? The Chiwis? Chee-wee's.
Speaker 3:Chee-wee's, chee-wee's a plan, yeah, and we write our tables right there in front of the band and the board.
Speaker 2:God, they done Two in one Perfect, interesting, perfect, when that is.
Speaker 1:February 22nd, 22nd yes, I still don't have a dress yet, oh man, we got to get on that.
Speaker 2:I got mine. Good for you. My sisters came into my house before I got mine in. It got stopped at the snow.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, mine got lost. A bunch of mine got lost, and then Chase's jacket got lost in the fires in. Los.
Speaker 2:Angeles.
Speaker 3:Lord, help my God, it don't burn up.
Speaker 2:It's not burned up. It's actually at my house but it got delayed. But anyway, I mean what else?
Speaker 1:What else can we?
Speaker 2:talk about. Okay, maybe we can wrap it up like this where?
Speaker 1:where do you see or where do you hope to see, like all of this going for you in the future? Is there something that you would like to really blow up more on, or like I don't know what? Do you have a vision, or are you just winging it? I'm definitely winging it. That's how we are too.
Speaker 3:I never really had a vision from day one. I just did this, and if y'all know most Cajuns, well, I don't know. I'm going to speak for myself. We just do as we do. I mean, if it comes to mind, I'm going to do it. And I do now see a tiny vision. I do want to get more followers, because I haven't grown in a little while Two and a half years. I think that's excellent to have half a million followers across all my platforms, but I'd like to see, you know, a million on one platform. Sure, yeah, because not everybody understands, but this is a second job for us. I do get paid. Y'all know we get paid for this, so every little bit helps.
Speaker 2:Right.
Speaker 1:So if you're listening in, follow yes, comment, do something, share All the social media outlets.
Speaker 3:But I am working on getting my products across all of the United States.
Speaker 1:I'm going to work on getting them with distributors.
Speaker 3:How awesome would that be, and I'm trying to get overseas and such, so I just need somebody to fly with me to Canada, you know, that you know the Cajjun mamas would fly with me.
Speaker 2:That would be oh, we might, I got my passport. Baby, we both do.
Speaker 1:We got our passport no, we have had a few uh of our fans reach out canadian fans and like can y'all ship to canada? I gotta look into that some more.
Speaker 3:Why wouldn't we? I'm shipping right now to canada. I can tell y'all how, but it's very expensive okay, well, I need to get with you on that.
Speaker 1:So we could work on that? Yeah, but yeah I would. A bucket list trip would be for us to go to Canada, Nova Scotia area where the Canadians Acadians came down from, and see all that Cause they still talk like we do. We changed it a little, but like we'll get like the videos with my daddy where he's speaking cajun french. All the comments from our canadian friends are like I understood everything, like that's how we talk.
Speaker 3:I'm like I had someone call me from canada area and I'm like you from originally, from here.
Speaker 1:No, they talked they sounded just like oh my god, that's so cool that's so cool anyway, well, yeah, how, hal, thank you.
Speaker 2:Thank you for coming to play with us.
Speaker 1:I know you're always willing to come play with us.
Speaker 3:Oh yeah, I'm ready for the next one, I'm ready and I thank y'all for supporting me like y'all do I appreciate that. Oh, you're welcome, Thank you for our friendship, because it's always good to gain new friends yeah. And especially, like you just said, y'all were the ones that needed to be in my life at that time.
Speaker 2:It was so like it just was what it was. I love the spiritual things. I love everything.
Speaker 3:And she Genuine Girl. I just had the flea songs. I'm about to cry again.
Speaker 2:Don't cry, but I do believe that our friendship started at the right time for all of us, for us to get together, collaborate. But mostly it's what you don't see on the videos.
Speaker 3:Yeah, the visits we've had off camera, they just see us visiting and cutting up and drinking but we don't drink all the time. No, but you're going to catch us drinking for more to grow.
Speaker 2:And you still said we still got to go to Superior and drink us a margarita. We got to do that.
Speaker 1:I'm still on that one. You can't wait for that to happen. Okay, wait you got us a driver, I'm ready.
Speaker 2:But you know like no, but for real, it just our friendship, it's a real friendship. Yeah, I never thought.
Speaker 3:I'd be texting y'all some of the things I text y'all basically, yeah.
Speaker 1:There's a group text that we have.
Speaker 3:I feel so comfortable when I go to your house.
Speaker 2:It is what it is. Hey, we're going to be what we're going to be, and it's good to be able to relate to each other within this crazy world of social media influence. So thank you for hanging out with us, thank you for your friendship.
Speaker 1:And we look forward to meeting you and listen all of our listeners right now. If y'all are on our YouTube, I you to please comment. If you go and follow how, leave a comment and let us know that you did that, and that would be very helpful for all of us.
Speaker 3:Yeah, okay, I'm on youtube too and she's on youtube too.
Speaker 2:Y'all want to learn how to cook some cajun food or any kind of food, because that girl was making some video tacos oh my god, I make the bitty tacos from scratch.
Speaker 3:Remember I got a? Got a Mexican stepmom. She puts the thumb down on you. I can make a lot more Mexican food. I'm just waiting right now. I don't have time to sit and do it all.
Speaker 2:It looked hard. Maybe call me whenever you make that, because I don't want to make that. It was a lot of steps.
Speaker 1:Okay, but also y'all go check out howthekajanladyaccent accentcom, and that's where you can order any of the seasonings dips uh, seafood balls, cajun fry batter we didn't even talk about that and I've totally forgot about that.
Speaker 3:Yeah, yeah, you did. It's in a bag.
Speaker 1:I just we didn't have room for it it's okay that's okay, okay, um, and also you got some hats and t-shirts if you're a merch lover, if you like to wear, yeah, oh yeah oh, there's fun.
Speaker 3:I love my ladders. I'm about to release my paddles on my website. I have some whiskey glasses on my website, oh nice, I'm gonna get the wine glasses, oh yeah fantastic, that's awesome.
Speaker 2:Oh, I can't wait to see all of that.
Speaker 3:I have a lot more stuff in store. I just gotta find time, y'all and y'all.
Speaker 2:There's so many stores around here that carry, uh, that carry her seasonings and stuff. I know they got it my piggly wiggly at ross any any place around here restock all over right here. Restock, yeah, so uh, if you are around here, check out your local grocery store.
Speaker 1:How the cajun lady, and if they not, if she's not there, tell your people that you tell it, tell your grocery store, uh people, that you want her season in there, if y'all listening in and y'all want my products.
Speaker 3:go to my website and email me, Cause I cannot answer the Facebook messages right away or the TikTok website. Send me an email and I'll answer that daily.
Speaker 1:That's a good point to make. How did like the best way to reach you?
Speaker 3:is send an email. It's via email through my website.
Speaker 1:Perfect, All right y'all. Thanks for listening in.