Beyond the Beach: What Makes a Cajun Summer Unforgettable

Nothing captures the essence of Southern childhood quite like those barefoot summer days, filled with garden harvests, beach trips, and the perfect snowball (or snow cone, depending on where you're from). Join the Cajun Mamas as we unpack our most treasured summer traditions and the memories that shaped us.

Sarah takes us through the magical experience of beach vacations, where despite the inevitable sand in your sandwich, there's something profound about witnessing the vastness of the ocean. Meanwhile, Koa shares intimate memories of learning to snap beans and shuck corn at her grandmother's house, agricultural rituals that weren't just chores but investments in family relationships that continue with her own daughters today.

The conversation takes a surprising turn when Sarah describes her family's bucket list Alaska cruise. The majestic mountains, still snow-capped in June, and extraordinary whale-watching experiences left her questioning her beach girl identity. Her vivid descriptions of whales bubble-feeding and a playful calf breaching the water reveal how summer adventures expand our horizons and create unforgettable family bonds.

We laugh about childhood memories that today's parents would never allow—riding without seatbelts in the back of vans, spending entire days barefoot and sunburned, and cooling off on the floor without air conditioning. These nostalgic reflections aren't just personal; they mirror broader Southern summer experiences many listeners will recognize from their own childhoods.

Perhaps nothing symbolizes summer quite like the debate over favorite snowball flavors. From the mysterious "pink lady" to strawberry cheesecake with extra cream, this simple but cherished treat bridges generations of Cajuns. As we wrap up with appreciation for our sponsor Blue Plate Mayo (the official mayonnaise of po'boys, as declared by Louisiana itself), we invite you to share your own summer memories and traditions.

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Spearmint Snowcones: An Old People Thing

Speaker 1 0:00

I liked spearmint too. As a kid. That's the one I would always get. Why, I don't know. You think it was like one of the most basic flavors they had.

Speaker 2 0:09

Just mint, I don't know. My daddy always liked that. Yeah, probably one of the first ones Must be.

Speaker 3 0:14

And then we was all like maybe, because why would I have to pick spearmint?

Speaker 1 0:18

It must be an old people thing. Yeah, must be.

Speaker 4 0:22

Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. Grab a cup of coffee, settle in and let's dive into real conversations about life, motherhood and a little inspiration to brighten your day.

Speaker 3 0:35

Welcome to Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas. I'm Sarah O'Pry. I'm Koa. Malonso, and we are the Cajun Mamas, at least that's what we call ourselves, that's what people say we are. And we've been doing Cajun Mama stuff together for almost a year now. That's true. Our podcast will be one year old next month.

Speaker 2 0:57

Next, month It'll be a year since we've been on this podcast. Y'all it's been a journey. We hope that y'all continuing to like the type of conversations we have here and we just we hope it continues to grow.

Speaker 3 1:09

Absolutely. Today we're going to be talking about some summertime activities that you used to do, that you did, yeah, some things that we did this summer and so we got a lot of summer fun things we're going to talk about, yes, but first let's thank our sponsor, blue Plate Mayo. Let's do talk about, yes, but first let's thank our sponsor, blue Plate Mayo. Let's do so. Generations of Blue Plate Mayo right, they've been doing this since 1927.

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Speaker 3 3:01

It's still summer outside for us. It feels like summer outside. It's still summer outside for us. Yeah, you know. So you know, I don't know. I had a post done on Facebook about what are some of your favorite summertime memories or activities that you like to do, yeah, and so I'll just go first, yeah.

Speaker 1 3:18

Some of my favorite.

Speaker 3 3:19

We always love to go to the beach Usually every summer. That's pretty basic. Everybody likes to go to the beach, usually every summer. That's pretty basic. Everybody likes to go to the beach. The beach is such a person. Uh, you know, it's just, I don't know.

Speaker 2 3:29

It's magical at the beach yes, I know when you, it's the, it's the water, it's the ocean, it's the uh, like the vastness of it like you were talking about this the other day with that, because when I the first time I saw mountains, I'm like just they were so vast and like majestic, and same thing with the ocean, the water. It's just like you feel like god's creation is just so much bigger than you can imagine and and to be able to see it.

Speaker 3 3:53

Yeah, it's so relaxing and the sound, yes yeah, even though there's sand everywhere.

Speaker 2 3:59

That's probably my least favorite part, especially when you're trying to eat your little snacks and your hands are always full of sand. You got to get up and go dust that off in the water and then don't touch nothing. Come back like this, sit down in your chair and then you can get your snacks but. If you have kids, it's almost impossible they eating sand.

Speaker 3 4:19

They just eating sand, so are you?

Speaker 2 4:20

and crunching it and you just roll with it. You wash it down with your cold beer and that's what you do.

Speaker 3 4:25

But you know what will make it better If you put that blue plate on there.

Speaker 2 4:30

Blue plate Sandy Mayo sandwich.

Speaker 3 4:32

That'll make it a little bit better. You sand a little bit better. Yeah, all right.

Speaker 2 4:37

What else y'all did in the summertime growing up? Oh, I know you said y'all camped a lot.

Speaker 3 4:42

We camped, but I would go to my nanny's. She would keep me for like a week, okay, and she had a garden. When I was younger and we always liked to snap beans, she would go pick, snap beans out of her garden and she showed me how to snap beans. She showed me how to, you know, like, cut okra. She showed me how to we shucked corn and figs.

Speaker 3 5:07

Like we just did, canned if I went on the right time, yeah, because figs are around the fourth of july, right ish. But we always, you know, like she would have a whole day for corn, you know, and we cut and we and we'd cut the okra and the, the snap beans and did she can it or she, uh, what it? What y'all did with them? We would, would cook the corn and, like, freeze it.

Speaker 4 5:27

In packs.

Speaker 3 5:27

Yeah in packs Mokshu.

Speaker 3 5:30

And same thing for okra, like she'd cook big batches of okra and then like she would call it okri, okri, mm-hmm. And then the same for beans. But I feel like we'd just eat the beans. She would just make a big thing of snap beans. Yeah, and I made some this summer and I was like like I saw a bunch of matt rods on sale, so I since we snap beans, me and the girls, and then we cooked them and it just the flavor of those beans is just so like it's a little sweet, you know, know, but I should make you some.

Speaker 2 6:04

Yeah, yeah, how you cook them in butter With some sausage and butter. Oh, sausage, yeah, yeah, I mean people put potatoes in it, but I mean, I ain't buying potatoes for that. When my daddy cooks green beans, or like mustard greens, from their garden bacon grease. He cooks them in bacon grease.

Speaker 3 6:23

So good, I got some in my fridge. I might go cook me some beans. So good, so good.

Speaker 2 6:30

What y'all did this summer? Well, we went to Alaska. That was our big vacation, that was a bucket list trip. My in-laws, my husband's parents, this was something that they've been wanting to do for years and we planned this. For like over two years We've been planning this trip and so we took an Alaskan cruise and I don't like I had never seen real mountains I say real mountains before like I've had been to Tennessee and saw like the Smokies, but when we went it was real hazy and we couldn't really see a whole lot of them. But that was my first time experiencing like mountains. But this was on another level, like big mountains and like snow. Snow was still so high that there was still snow in June on these mountains and I don't think I'll ever be able to compare another vacation. And I'm a beach girl through and through. My husband was like what did you like better, beach or mountains? And I was like I couldn't answer. And he was like, oh my God, you know, like what did he say? He liked the mountains.

Speaker 3 7:35

He liked the mountains better than the beach, because y'all are such beach people.

Speaker 2 7:38

We are, yeah, but no, he would, he likes, he likes. If I didn't love the beach so much, we wouldn't go. He could do with or without it. But those mountains were just unreal to just to behold, just to look.

Speaker 2 7:52

And then we went on a whale watching excursion and we saw multiple, like lots of whales and that was just beyond so cool, so cool, like your eyes can't believe what they see in, no, and like we were all on, like in the boat on the water, and we'd see the blow, like you see the blow come up first, or they the blowhole, whatever. So she's like watch the, watch the edge, like the surface of the water, and you're gonna see, and then you see them come up. So we watching and like they start coming all over. And the lady was like it's more rare to see this many together. They're usually like one or two. They don't.

Speaker 2 8:33

We learned all kind of stuff about whales, okay, so that when they have the babies they stay with the mama for a year and that's it. They go their separate ways and so she's like they're pretty much loners. Like you don't see them together a whole lot unless they're feeding. They kind of help each other out, drive the fish together. We got to see them feed too like a group of them. They'll go down and they'll circle around and they blow bubbles out and it makes the fish. The fish are scared of the bubbles. So the fish all come together and then all at once they come up and their jaws are just open and they come up and we saw them for all the fish yeah like it was a little fish.

Speaker 2 9:13

Oh, who cares about the fish? The majestic whales is what you're looking at okay I don't know, I didn't see the fish get eaten. Yeah, all you see is the whale come out. Yeah, then they had a um, a calf, a baby, a baby whale, but the thing was still huge, you know, yeah, cutting up, cutting up, coming out the water oh, I just hit the mic coming out the water, splash, coming out, splash and like, just like a little baby in the water exactly I said.

Speaker 2 9:41

Now you know that mama whale was probably like all right, son, that's enough. Now it's not splash time.

Speaker 1 9:46

No, it was just putting on a show. For us it was so cool oh that's cool.

Speaker 2 9:52

And it was my kids' first time they had ever flown anywhere, so just the plane ride was a fun experience for them.

Speaker 3 9:59

Did they like sleeping in the cruise ship?

Speaker 2 10:04

Yeah, we all were so tired at the end of every day, let me tell you, we just all just passed out. But they had a share of bed which is not. They're not used to that. So I was like they. They were arguing over the covers and stuff and but most of the nights we just all just passed out. It was a bucket list trip that I'll never forget oh man and to have the family together, you know my husband and his, his brother and the in and my in-laws, and it's great, oh yeah.

Speaker 3 10:28

I just, there's something about those big family vacations. We went this summer to Bay St Louis and we've gone with our family before and that's our beach trip this year, because we have so many other things we do in you and I, but we going, we. We went to Bay St in you and I, um, but we going, uh, we, we went to Bay St Louis and we go we, which we went before we stay in a house all together, you know this house has a pool so you know the kids are extra excited, but, um, that it's just fun to be with your whole family.

Speaker 3 11:00

Yeah, you know, and they're like that, not? It's not going to be anything different from what we we do at home, but we get to all sleep in the same place.

Speaker 2 11:09

Yeah, it's like you sleep there, you wake up and you there with your family and to get away, I don't know. There's just something about getting away, right, it's special, it's special, you know.

Speaker 3 11:21

Yeah, so we had a great time there. We always do, anywhere we go we bring the party and we bring a big party because we got it. Yeah, y'all have a big family. We're rolling with nine kids now you know, between all of our family members. So you know we like that too.

Speaker 2 11:45

What about when you was a kid other than okay?

Speaker 3 11:47

you went to your nannies, you went camping, you did any camps like a 4-h camp type of thing. No, no, I did, but it wasn't God, but it wasn't sleeping camp like hi, god, you know. Oh, like a Bible school, like a Bible school, okay, but you would just go for like half the day and they give you a snack and you go home yeah, that's like vacation Bible school yeah, but tell me about your camp, because it sounds way more interesting well, so we would.

Speaker 2 12:06

I was baptist growing up so they had what was called ga's, okay, girls in action, girls in action, ga's, okay, and so it was kind of reminded me of like a girl scout type of thing, but I guess not really or a 4-h, just a club, okay, at your church, mm-hmm, okay, yeah, and we'd have GA meetings, like I don't know, probably once a month or something, and we'd do little fundraisers for different things and we'd raise money to go to camp and we would go to the ABC camp right there in Richard. Yeah, that's so crazy. But, being from Gaydon, so to so to preface this, okay, richard is what? 20 minutes from us? 15 minutes from us, yeah, maybe, maybe 15 okay, but from Gaton, which is 45 minutes from here, it felt like I was going out of state.

Speaker 2 12:56

Like the drive to Richard, we thought we was some in some exotic place. How long it was, it couldn't have been that long, about an hour really. Yeah, gate on the resort, okay, yeah, about an hour, I would think, um, so I just I didn't know where we were. You know, I didn't know. At that time I was probably seven or eight years old, I guess, um, maybe nine. But yeah, we would go for the like for five days and we would stay there and then in the bunkhouse and it was a church camp. So we would have like, uh, we go to the sanctuary for uh, I don't know if you would say like they would preach or whatever, but I guess they would. I just made me remember like going, getting getting to go swim, we'd go swim, eating in the cafeteria with everybody, and like the camp counselors would put on shows for us. So I remember like watching their little plays and their shows and just being like totally enamored.

Speaker 4 13:51

Oh yeah, so fun.

Speaker 2 13:52

So fun, yeah, and we'd have a little canteen card. We'd get to go to the little canteen shop and get snacks.

Speaker 3 13:57

Now, this is while you was homeschooled or you was to school. By then I was still in school, okay, this time.

Speaker 2 14:09

Yeah, I was still in school because I was wondering if you went like like that was, you would meet up with your friends, you know, during some of my friends from school was in gas with me.

Speaker 1 14:13

Yeah, oh, I love it was so fun.

Speaker 3 14:14

What a time, what a time well, I'm thinking about, okay, I didn't go to camp, but I was in the youth group in the choir and we would, if we work real hard, okay, and fundraise, we could go to astroworld.

Speaker 2 14:26

Yes, and my uncle glenn would bring the choir to astroworld and we would have the best time I did astroworld in youth group later when I was a teenager, at the different church that we went to, oh, but my family would go to astroworld too.

Speaker 3 14:40

We loved that I mean, this was a theme park in case y'all don't like what's astral world?

Speaker 2 14:45

it was a six flags at the time, like so it was a theme park in houston, so it was close enough, uh, where you didn't have to spend the night if you didn't want to. It's like three hours from where we yeah, we didn't spend a night. No, we would go and it was a long day, but we would go and drive back that night and you was coming.

Speaker 3 15:01

You swampy ass, sorry home on that bus yes, all, stinky all stinky. I mean nothing but the, uh, nothing but the. The middle school stank on that bus, it's true. But you know what?

Speaker 2 15:15

we had the best time, those were some good memories, yeah, and fundraising for it too, like it was.

Speaker 3 15:20

That was awesome stuff we had to do. You want to do this. You want to?

Speaker 4 15:23

go to astro. Let's go, we're gonna go.

Speaker 1 15:23

But awesome stuff we had to do.

Speaker 3 15:24

You want to do this, you want to go to Astroworld, let's go. We're going to go and we had a great time doing that, and we also. I have a post on Facebook and somebody said Astroworld was one of their favorite things to do during the summer.

Speaker 2 15:37

I have a lot of childhood memories there, and they had a water park too water world. That's another one. We go there now.

Speaker 3 15:47

We don't have nowhere to take our kids close to go to an amusement park not close or that I'd want to go to. Yeah, I don't like thinking about germs, so just being in the going to a water park.

Speaker 2 16:00

I used to love going though when I was younger but you don't think about things like that when you're young.

Speaker 3 16:05

But now I'll lazy river, all day with you.

Speaker 1 16:08

And that's the same thing.

Speaker 3 16:09

It's the same thing, I know, I know, but it's I don't know. And yeah, okay, so I did, I made a post. Can I say that now?

Speaker 4 16:19

Yeah.

Speaker 3 16:19

Summertime fun podcast a favorite summertime childhood memory activities. Um our friend patience. They're riding in an old 70s and 80s 12 to 15 passenger van with her, her family and cousins from south Louisiana to Florida and they'd all be in the back playing with no seat belts yes, we had a chevy astro van and you could take the whole third row seat out, and so the the back was all open.

Speaker 2 16:47

And sure enough, on the way to astro world, baby, my mama would let me put a little blanket down in the back and just lay in the back, no seat belt, how fun I know I always wanted a station wagon because the station wagons don't they have the, the seats that face each other uh, the older ones are you could? I don't know. Yeah, I've seen pictures of where they have the that face each other, but I don't know if it was a station wagon.

Speaker 3 17:12

I don't know, but I always wanted one of those I didn't care what it looked like either. Um, let's see. Uh oh, the mcdonald's happened, the mcdonald's play place, where you would eat your hamburger and then go pretend like you're in jail and that'd be a hamburger.

Speaker 2 17:25

Yeah, the big hamburglar.

Speaker 3 17:28

Staying barefoot all day.

Speaker 2 17:30

Just playing outside.

Speaker 3 17:31

Just playing outside.

Speaker 2 17:32

I used to get so tan in the summer.

Speaker 3 17:36

Like because.

Speaker 4 17:36

I'd be outside all day.

Speaker 2 17:38

Well, nathan too, though Nathan has that. He tans very easily, but I would stay dark and, uh, my hair would get the little blonde streaks in it from the sun. Yeah, all the pictures you see of my childhood. I was very tan and barefoot all the time yeah, and now I can't walk out.

Speaker 3 17:57

I can't walk in my house without shoes on. I have to have my flip-flops on. I cannot. I don't want nothing touching the bottom of my feet. Uh-uh, let's see. Astro said that already. My friend Carly. She said riding my bike to the aquatic club and getting snow cones on Friday. The aquatic club in Church Point, was it in?

Speaker 1 18:20

the summertime. That's a public pool. It was a public pool.

Speaker 3 18:24

It's like I said I didn't want to go to. Now Let me tell you what. If my aunt Susie called and said hey, we're going to the pool, I could not pack up fast enough to go to that pool because and you look you was church party late. If you was, you had the membership to the pool. Only the rich people had that. The membership to the pool, oh, I bet only the rich people had that. I was not one of them. Uh so, and you could go to the pool, my aunt susie would just drop us off at the pool.

Speaker 2 18:50

Sometimes I imagine that I imagine us doing that with our kids now watching the kids, you can't do that now, oh no, everybody would take advantage of that let's talk about the snow cone aspect.

Speaker 2 19:01

Okay, Snow cones, oh I love that y'all. I can remember my daddy driving like he would, just on a random time of the day or whatever you want to go to town and get a snow cone and that was like everything, and we'd ride in his truck with the windows down and go get us a snow cone and he would always get Spearmint.

Speaker 1 19:21

I liked Spearmint too as a kid. That's the one I would always get. Why, I don't know. You think it was like one of the most basic flavors they had.

Speaker 2 19:30

Just mint, I don't know. My daddy always liked that. Yeah, probably one of the first ones Must be.

Speaker 3 19:36

And then we was all like maybe, Because why would I have to pick spearmint? It must experiment it must be a whole people thing. Yeah, it must be. Weigh in in the comments what's your favorite snow cone? We say snow cone right here, but I know y'all gonna say a snowball.

Speaker 2 19:49

It's called a snowball, it is a snowball it is. Y'all calm down, we're talking about the same thing, same thing okay, same thing shaved ice same thing shaved ice, but we don't say that here we don't none of us but but I ain't gonna knock you for it.

Speaker 3 20:01

No, I'm gonna know what you're talking about. If you say shaved ice, what was your?

Speaker 2 20:04

flavor of choice, besides spearmint, you said.

Speaker 3 20:08

But now it is strawberry cheesecake with extra, extra cream, and I like it new orleans style with the ice cream stuffed with the north with the ice cream.

Speaker 2 20:19

I would always do a pink lady with cream and I feel like that's very probably was. What is pink lady? A strawberry. But it's not a strawberry. It has a different taste to it. Y'all, let us know in the comments if you know what I don't know?

Speaker 1 20:31

what pink lady is, but it's good.

Speaker 3 20:33

So good Everybody. When Kramers would do snow cones, everybody wanted the pink lady. But it was only special people that could get that. Oh, a pink lady, but it was only special people that could get that oh yeah, they only made pink lady for them.

Speaker 2 20:48

Oh elite, what is pink lady? I feel like it's just a sweet nectar like type, but it's red and it.

Speaker 3 20:52

It's not like pink lemonade. I don't know what it is, it's just pink lady. What is the taste of pink lady? It's his own taste. Yeah, with cream. Yeah, that was a good one bubble gum too.

Speaker 2 21:05

Blue. The blue bubble gum, yeah, because now they have like bubble gum clear and clear pink.

Speaker 3 21:13

I've seen blue yeah I like the ice cream one too an ice cream flavor it's yellow it's yellow ice cream flavors.

Speaker 2 21:22

I would sometimes do the bride's cake one too, like a amaretto type Wedding cake. That's it.

Speaker 3 21:27

That's what I like to get when I go to that po' boy place. We like Old Time, old Time.

Speaker 2 21:33

Yeah, old Time, let's go over there right now, old Time po' boy and a snowball. They call them snowballs over there, I think.

Speaker 1 21:40

I don't care what they call them.

Speaker 3 21:42

Whatever's good. I'm going to walk up, I'm going to get me a medium one stuffed, and it's going to be probably wedding cake.

Speaker 2 21:47

Yeah, I love it. That's yummy.

Speaker 1 21:50

Now I'm hungry.

Speaker 2 21:50

Summertime snacks.

Speaker 3 21:52

That's so good.

Speaker 2 21:52

What else you got on there?

Speaker 3 21:54

We talked about shucking corn, pulling vegetables, large family reunions.

Speaker 2 22:04

Oh, reunions, oh, we played games, swimming, fishing, slept in cabins ate good food.

Speaker 3 22:06

That's nice, that sounds fun. Yeah, I don't agree with the sleeping in cabins thing.

Speaker 2 22:08

That means they must have had such a big family. They came to a compound like a campground like a camp and rented it out for their family reunion.

Speaker 3 22:17

Wow, yes, um, oh okay. Ann said um, she would go to her mom's house, her mom happy's house, and they'd swing on the swing. They'd watch the traffic go by and she would make hand scrape snowballs on the back porch that sounds. I could just see that picture playing out in my mind how sweet I love it and she would lay on the floor with no air conditioner, on the cool floor in the afternoon while she watched her stories.

Speaker 1 22:47

I love that.

Speaker 3 22:48

Yes, let's see Grandparents and cousins going swimming every day, spending the summers with her nanny Summers on the river, going to Holly Beach.

Speaker 1 23:02

Oh yes, this was good.

Speaker 3 23:06

Holly Beach and Cribbin. There was so many more beach houses back then they'd rent one and they'd be a foot from the water, they'd be crying with sunburns and they thought it would bring aloe plants, you know came prepared yeah, you, you in a place like that and it's, it's hot, like you know, when you go on the beach. That's a different type of sun. Yeah, then, just going outside for a little while by the water.

Speaker 2 23:29

Yes, different it is, connie uh, my mother-in-law talks about Holly Beach a lot, like she has memories growing up there her daddy and miss her mom and daddy would take them to Holly Beach often and that was kind of their trips and she's like we'd all pile up.

Speaker 2 23:44

Uh, it was her. And um, there's four of them a brother, yeah, yeah four. Two girls, two boys. And she's like we, we would pile up in like a little single cab truck or like and like we'd all be in the back of the truck the whole way there like just yeah and like we're so nervous now.

Speaker 3 24:04

Yeah, the cops are gonna get you yeah, they'd all in the truck and go yeah, or like you know they would tell us, uh, they would sleep on the dashboard in the back, like they would lay down in the sun. Though you know, like my uh, mr pat and them, they'd lay down on the on the dash in the back, or sometimes chase would, just they'd not be in his seat, then he'd just fall asleep standing up yeah yeah, can you imagine roz they didn't have no child locks on them that thing is always trying to get out the door.

Speaker 2 24:32

Oh, I know the things that people survived back then. Now we don't let our kids do anything like that?

Speaker 3 24:37

no, not even a little bit. I don't trust them anyway. No so oh, but that's some fun summer memories it is, yeah, some good fun childhood memories.

Speaker 2 24:47

Please share in the comments with us some of your childhood, uh, or even adult, like just some good summertime memories, like what's some of your favorite places you went, what did you do? What do you always have to do in the summer? Um snack of choice in the summer for me is watermelon. Oh, yes, Like in the summer you could always find cold watermelon in my fridge. That's the best and, like you know, when that first sweet watermelon comes out, it's summertime.

Speaker 3 25:14

I ain't had one yet. Go girl, you missed out, I need to. All right. Well, thank you all for joining us for Coffee Talk with the Cajun Mamas, but thank you to Blue Plate Mayonnaise for sponsoring us this month. Yes, blue Plate.

Speaker 2 25:29

Mayonnaise, that official mayonnaise of po' boys. We were named that by the state of Louisiana.

Speaker 3 25:37

By the state of Louisiana.

Speaker 2 25:38

You know, our official mayonnaise is Blue Plate.

Speaker 3 25:41

Just like the official bird is a pelican.

Speaker 2 25:44

Yeah, you know, we got mayonnaise as our official condiment. I'm gonna just say it, it's a blue plate.

Speaker 3 25:49

It's a staple in in louisiana, all over louisiana. It's perfect for your louisiana cajun cooking potato salad. Pole boys room a lot, like you said, yeah, oh we use it all the time for everything we got to make sure. And when it's on sale, boy, we stocking up, stock up.

Speaker 2 26:04

That's right. You already know it's got that rich, extra creamy texture that we love because it's made with egg yolks, and quality and tradition matter in our kitchens.

Speaker 3 26:13

That's right In them, cajun kitchens and your mama used it, your mama, everybody.

Speaker 2 26:19

So it's approved by generations body. So it's approved by generations. Generations approve of blue plate. So thank y'all so much for being our official sponsor of coffee talk with the cajun mamas. Oh, and I didn't say this, but if you can't get blue plate where you live, go to blueplate mayocom and you can order from there and they'll ship to your house. So don't no excuses, y'all, try y'all some blue plate absolutely, and then that way you could say that's the good stuff, all right, thank y'all so much for hanging out with us.

Speaker 4 26:46

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