Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
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Coffee Talk With The Cajun Mamas
Treasures of Family: Coffee Cups and Cultural Heritage
What if the most cherished items in your home could unlock a treasure trove of family memories? On this episode, we journey through our personal histories, celebrating the warmth and nostalgia of childhood moments like sipping sweet, sugar-laden coffee with our grandmas and the special Corral coffee cups that have become emblematic of our brand. We recount the magic of stumbling upon these cups at garage sales and antique stores, and how creating our own versions has allowed us to keep these cherished memories alive and share them with others.
We also explore the rich cultural heritage of the Guidry family, tracing their roots from France to Canada, and revel in the delicious traditions brought over by the Italian side of the family. From the heartwarming stories of family gatherings filled with Italian sweets to the generational shifts in language and the significance of the family crest, this episode is a heartfelt homage to our ancestors. We bring you into the fold of our family dynamics, from sibling hilarity to the profound blessings of parenthood, painting a vivid picture of love, laughter, and community.
Welcome, welcome everybody, to our second episode, second podcast. This is going to be called How's your Mom and them. But before we get started we want to take a second to mention. Our big sponsor for the month is the Pink Paisley. You can go in and shop at the Pink Paisley store in Lafayette, louisiana. They have everything you need for your home decor. They've got fragrances, they've got candles, jewelry by Kendra Scott and E Newton, bath and body products and even t-shirts and clothes too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, you know, there's even like a men's section where you can find gifts for men. There is a men's section. I got my husband's on for Father's Day there and they'll wrap it up for free for you.
Speaker 1:Free gift wrapping. That is so true. If you're not in this area, you can shop with them at thepinkpaisleycom, so that's right all right.
Speaker 2:So on this episode we're going to kind of talk a little bit about ourselves again, kind of our family and just kind of some other things about us, um yeah maybe a little family history a little nostalgia what reminds us of our mamaw's, because people always tell us in our videos oh my god, y'all, y'all just took me back to my mamaw's house.
Speaker 1:Or y'all remind me of my aunts, who used to sit around the table and drink their coffee and stuff.
Speaker 2:That's my favorite thing, we get all the time that we unlock in memories. Are we bringing back those memories and honestly, like anytime it all started, with these cups right here? Yep anytime somebody sees these old cups, they say oh my god, my mama had them, or you know whoever my tonton whoever, it's true every. And this is all over. This is not just Louisiana. You know what I'm saying. This is not just your typical Cajun kitchen. This is everywhere. Everybody's mimo, everybody's grandma, granny, whatever.
Speaker 1:They had these cups, had a set of Corral coffee cups.
Speaker 2:Whether it was the Butterfly Gold or the Crazy Daisy. Your grandma or somebody you know had this china pattern in their house. Childhood memories, or somebody you know had this china pattern in their house. Childhood memories, unlocked absolutely. And I just remember sitting with my grandma and mama, more ruth and she. She had some of these and we'd drink coffee, milk, or she would, and at the bottom it would be full of full of full of sugar.
Speaker 2:Oh, my god sugar at the bottom of it pure sugar rush oh yeah I ended up everybody's asking me you know, did you get these from your grandma? No, I got them from a. I got the cups from a garage sale at the jockey lot.
Speaker 1:The best purchase you ever made.
Speaker 2:That is the best $4 purchase I have ever made, because that is our brand, that's us.
Speaker 1:It's so true.
Speaker 2:And then the rest of the plates and everything like that. I got that from an antique store and I tell you what I got. I brought an extra. I got them in North Carolina with my best friend, jenny. I went to go visit with her and she loves to go to this antique store there, so I got them and she sent me home with an extra luggage so I could bring home all of my.
Speaker 1:I didn't remember that they flew, that you flew them home. I flew them home, break or nothing. No, ma'am that's amazing.
Speaker 2:They don't break, they don't. Why do you think they this? Oh, you know, like you, you can't buy nothing these days that's gonna last that long. You also can't buy anything with lead in them.
Speaker 1:So, yes, our very first videos that went pretty. I don't know if they went viral, but they went. They were very popular. 90 of the comments were people telling us y'all are drinking lead, throw that out, you can't have that, this and that.
Speaker 2:And we were just like, oh, it's okay, we're gonna be okay yeah, like I just feel like there's just so many other things I could be dying. Worry about your mcdonald's chicken nuggets correct you know before I worry about my yeah, my corral I'm just thinking this is probably not the worst I can do, probably not, you know. So, anyway, that's the story of the corral cups and we we actually made our own corral that you can get. We have our own cajun mama's version of corral lead free yeah, yeah, modern and you can get any of our merch at cajunmamascom.
Speaker 2:Uh, let's take a minute to mention pizzaville, usa and church point.
Speaker 1:Yes, y'all yes, if you've ever been to a pizzaville usa, I have never been to one outside of church, point. I'm sure they're delicious, but I just feel like ours is special and I'm probably biased, but it's special.
Speaker 1:they have really just taken the time and the effort and the energy to make it a great experience. When you go there, it's the whole family. It's special. They have really just taken the time and the effort and the energy to make it a great experience when you go there For the whole family. It's true, they have a little game room area for the kids to play. There's music on Thursdays. You can go inside or outside, it's up to you. The service is top notch. The beer's ice ice, baby cold, and I mean you're just gonna leave feeling full and satisfied and happy.
Speaker 2:happy and you always probably 99% of the time got a chance to see a duplisher there, so you know it's always a good family experience, run by a great family.
Speaker 1:That's right, and it's not just pizza, y'all. They got burgers, they got sandwiches, salads, anything you could want they got there. So y'all give pizzaville usa a follow on TikTok and Facebook. Make sure it's the Church Point location. And you know, support, local support, small business, correct, all right. So where are your relatives from? Like I know you got some. The Guidry's that's probably connected to my Guidry's way back in the day Comes from the Nova Scotia, canada area. But what about? What was your on your mama's side?
Speaker 2:How about that? My mama is from Texas, okay Okay, her family's from Texas. So when she crosses to Alexandria, her entire accent changes and it's like no, stop it right now, and so we'll talk like you know, but that's where she's from, so it's easy for her. To transition back, kind of like if we were taken out of Cajun country. It would come back real easy if we came you know if we came back home, but I ain't leaving.
Speaker 1:That's right.
Speaker 2:Never plan to no no, unless the good Lord picks me up and puts me somewhere else. But yeah, I mean, my mama's family is from Texas, my grandma and my daddy's family, they all from here, and we got Thibodeaux's, we got Falls, we got Guidry's, but they lived in in Peatville. Peatville's not that far from here, kind of between Church Point and Lottale I guess, and that's where.
Speaker 1:I spent most of my life was in Peatville with my grandma and my grandpa you would spend weeks there with them or like, just go for the night, spend a night no, my mama would keep me, you know like she would keep me, as long as I would go dust and she'd show me how to dust, not just around the stuff oh, you gotta pick it up and dust.
Speaker 2:You better put that trash everywhere, and so she's the one that taught me how to clean my house and take care of everything, and and that's your daddy's mom, that's my daddy's mama, mama ruth, and she, I mean just everything, just all of this, and just what we're doing right now. It just reminds me of my mom, ruth, because I would just go with her to the rosaries with the old ladies, and those were just things we did together and that that's just a core part of who I am. I feel like she passed away.
Speaker 2:She passed away in oh man, I don't know my daddy and my mom and they my aunt. They all passed away within a two year span. So I feel like it all kind of melds together. But, she did good. She had nine kids in one little one-bedroom house. And so when people ask me, what you doing with that little tiny house. Y'all going to need a bigger house. I'm like no, mama. Ma did it with nine kids.
Speaker 1:You can make it work, and we're going to make it work us two, but that's my little story.
Speaker 2:well, good, what about you?
Speaker 1:so, my well, my daddy was, uh is a gidry. That's my maiden name and his family, I mean. You can trace it all the way back to, uh, canadian roots, which goes even further back to france, to french. You know we have a family crest, you know we have. I know the gidrys have a an official crest. I know somebody who got a tattoo of that. Oh, not, huh, my little cousin he did. Well, this is probably he was. He is a gidri, probably related some type of way. But I remember thinking, wow, that's commitment, right there you know to your family name, but anyway.
Speaker 1:So my daddy's side was gidris and his mom and papa only spoke french and my daddy can speak some french and I love to hear him talk, but he don't, he. He has never really had anyone to converse with him. It's been years, you know. So when I pull it out of him, like it's fun to see him, he has to stop and think, you know, really pause and try to remember. And he's he's pulling, trying to pull back memories from his childhood because they never taught them how to speak and they really told them not to speak. No, and see, I asked him like, was it y'all in school? And my daddy is 70. Oh Lord, Three or four, I believe.
Speaker 2:He's of the younger ones, so yes.
Speaker 1:So I said did it start with your generation where they told y'all in school not to speak French? And he said no, it actually started with his parents. Yeah so yes, so his mama and daddy, of course, could speak French, but they were discouraged from doing that and they didn't want the little kids to know what they were saying. You know, when the mamas and and and aunts and grandmas, grandpas, would sit around the table and they started talking in French. It was, they was talking about you probably.
Speaker 2:Yeah, probably yeah, because they would always look your way that's what he said and then you would figure it out. I mean, even young as I was with my maman, it was like you could always tell what she was saying. She likes to eat and eat. She would say that all the time, because I like to eat all the time and snack. But I figured out what she was saying because you know that they would look over at us, you know.
Speaker 1:At what you were doing at that time, you put the pieces together. That's what daddy said. My daddy said too, you know he knew just enough to get himself in trouble. But uh, yeah, and now my mama's side. They are not Cajun, my mama's side is Italian, you're?
Speaker 2:just telling me this and I'm like, well, it's my, actually my mama, my mama's side is Italian.
Speaker 1:You're just telling me this and I'm like Well, it's my, actually my mama's mama's side.
Speaker 2:They were yeah.
Speaker 1:Van Cherries. Van Cherries, and so my papa was a, is a Pusho. Pushos are French, if I'm not mistaken, but not like Acadian Cajun French. It was different French, but he was born and raised here, though, around Baton Rouge, and my mama was born in Baton Rouge too, and then they moved to Guédon in the 70s for my papa's job.
Speaker 2:What a time to be in Guédon in the 70s.
Speaker 1:And it was like this little compound that they built for the workers. He worked for Puro Wow and they called it the Puro camp and even to this day my mama will still call it the Puro camp. They had these little modular homes that they put out there for for the workers and my grandparents were like the last house out there and they ended up buying the property and everything and it was you know.
Speaker 1:They made it their own but it started out as a little just place to live, because he worked around there. And yeah, my mama says, you know, she was in high school at the time and did not want to leave all her friends and stuff and I can only imagine how that must have been. Yeah, starting out in some little podunk town gate on Louisiana. Yeah, you know, going from Port Allen, baton Rouge area. Yeah, but she didn't ever met my daddy you know right, so you know the rest is history but my mama, she was hard like a, she was stern she was hard, like when you were saying this is your daddy's mama.
Speaker 1:No, this is your mama okay, I didn't know. I can circle. I have to circle back to that. I didn't know my daddy's parents.
Speaker 2:They died when I was little.
Speaker 1:My daddy's daddy died when he was young, so long before me. But my daddy's mama died when I was a baby, so I never really knew her, but my mama's mama she was. She was tough and now that I'm older and I know about her upbringing I can see why she was tough. But I won't go into all that. But she passed you a slap and give you a hug with the same hand, you know it's just how she was and she didn't put up with no, nothing.
Speaker 1:And like when you was talking about how your mama taught you how to dust and stuff I'm thinking mine would not have let me touch her things to even dust you know like I wouldn't have been able to pick up the little trinkets, because I might break them.
Speaker 2:She didn't have nine kids huh able to pick up the little trinkets because I might break them. She didn't have nine kids huh, no, she had three girls.
Speaker 1:That was it, but she did help raise some of her grandchildren, but that's just how she was. Now she would. She would cook, though, for us on Sundays, and I would always look forward to that going to her house and she made she would make a Italian sweet spaghetti. My daddy was never a fan of that sweet sauce, but I just loved it and to this day, if my mama asks me what do you want me to cook for a birthday meal or something? I'm like sweet spaghetti.
Speaker 2:Really, when Nathan thinks of that, he likes it. No, he's not a fan of it.
Speaker 1:My husband's more of a pure Cajun eater. Brown gravies, red gravies, but not sweet red gravies.
Speaker 2:You know, yeah, yeah, I'll feel him on that one, I'll feel him on that one. I think we it should be savory if it's a gravy.
Speaker 1:Yes, but no, that's just something that she did, and but you know that's interesting. Yeah, and my papa, my mama's daddy, is my only living grandparent left and he's 94 or 95 right now and he's still a kicking and he drives himself to the casino and he goes about him in a while he's doing well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's good he's doing.
Speaker 1:Well, you know, he's, he's, he, he'll sit and he'll watch his little tv.
Speaker 2:He found youtube oh, he can watch anything now he discovered.
Speaker 1:Yes, you can learn anything and he likes, likes to watch shows where they take things apart, like engines and just like the mechanics of things. And because he's always been a tinkerer and a MacGyver. He could make anything work out of anything. So he was always a woodworker and a tinkerer and stuff. So when he watches those videos I feel like in his mind he's doing it.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, he's doing it, for sure.
Speaker 1:And he'll just sit for hours and watch those videos. Yeah, it's amazing like he that he found that and he's keeping his mind busy his mind. His mind is still sharp, like at 90 something years old.
Speaker 2:He's keeping himself busy and that's good, that's good I know we we blessed to still have him, absolutely let's take a yeah, a second to talk about Renewed Vitality. That's right. Renewed Vitality is out of Lafayette, louisiana. It is run by my little cousin, emily Alamont oh how nice, she's a nurse practitioner. She offers a personalized, holistic approach to your health and wellness, offering services from primary care to hormone replacement therapy and advanced functional lab tests, and you can be on your way to optimal health, naturally.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I love that. I love that more natural, holistic approach to health and wellness.
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Speaker 1:That's so good. So how about a little sibling talk? You know what? Tell me a little bit about your sister. I already know, but tell everybody else about your sibling.
Speaker 2:Well, my mom only had me and my sister, and we are five years apart. My sister's name is laney, laney, tahita and um y'all look so much alike.
Speaker 1:We already do listen.
Speaker 2:We finally are getting to spend some time together, but it's hard. It's different now, since we have kids, because we always, you know, looking everywhere or seeing what the other one's doing.
Speaker 1:You gotta visit between fussing at your kids and seeing about them, and you know it's just like it's. It's always something so when we visit, you got to visit between fussing at your kids and seeing about them.
Speaker 2:And you know it's just like, it's always something. So when we get together it's nothing but foolery. You know it's kind of like us, but I think you would even look at us like because that's just the siblings. You know what I'm saying. A sibling is just, it's something different. You can ask however you want. They got to love you anyway. Yeah, and the things I've seen it like, the things y'all laugh about, are just ridiculous. Yes, yes, and like anybody else thinking the same thing, I'm wondering y'all tell us, do y'all have?
Speaker 2:a sibling, that y'all just absolutely ridiculous with ridiculous. Yes, that's all I can say. You know like it's just absolute stupidity.
Speaker 1:And I find she laughs at even like sillier things than you Like. She's just so silly.
Speaker 2:Oh, her jokes are so, corny, and sometimes she's like uh-huh, and I'm like I'm not even going to give you a courtesy, laugh on that one sometimes and she's like you're so mean, you're so mean, but we all know that already. But yeah, it's just me and her, and between the two of us we have six kids that we bless my mama with.
Speaker 1:Yep, y'all keep her busy we keep her busy.
Speaker 2:So I mean but that's it.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so on that side it's a small family. Then you married into a big family.
Speaker 2:I did. Yeah, I married my husband. He's from Church Point too, his, my, my husband. He's from church point two. His name is chase opry. Um, everybody around here knows him as chucky and he we met in the first grade, me and my husband. I didn't know this, but yeah, I went to church point elementary. We were in the first grade together and chase was always that kid that if he would see you somewhere he'd be waving at you hey you know always, he never met, he never met a non friend like a non-friend.
Speaker 1:yes, like a non-friend. Yes, like he knows.
Speaker 2:He's friendly with everybody, he's so charismatic too and like so, like he's just so easy to get along with. So we didn't start dating until I was almost out of college, but we always knew each other, we were always really good friends and then we got married in 2010. And we have four beautiful children, and we had two, have you know? An 11, a 9-year-old Skip eight years, and then you know almost 2-year-old and this little boy, he's going to be 2 months old. So I don't know, Just very blessed.
Speaker 1:Your hubby finally got his little boy.
Speaker 2:He finally got his little boy. We have three girls and a boy.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's so awesome. So I have a small family too. It's just me and I have two older brothers, that they're both half brothers, and one lives way up north in Tennessee. The other one lives nearby here and we share the same mama. So we grew up in the same house together and we were real close. But he's about eight years older than me, so we really didn't get close until adulthood Because by older than me, so we really didn't get close until adulthood because by the time I was old enough to, you know, have some type of conversation with him, he was graduated high school and out of the house. But we've always been close, though, you know, since then we just we stayed.
Speaker 2:I didn't even believe she had a brother until I was like, finally it was some. Maybe Christmas it was Christmas. I was like if you don't take a picture of your brother with him, I will never believe he's just not active, like on social and all that, and then he works offshore. Yeah, but you could have a picture of your brother. I could, and I got one we don't take.
Speaker 1:I guess we just don't take pictures together much.
Speaker 2:But you believe me now because I showed you. Yeah, and if anybody, I yeah, and if anybody I kind of wish I would meet him in person.
Speaker 1:You will, I can make it happen. Okay, I can make it happen. He's a lot of fun, but he works offshore, so he's gone.
Speaker 1:He's gone a month. He's home a month, yeah, and when he's home he's real busy. And he has a 16-year-old daughter that's my godchild and she, you know, with her when he's home, yeah. So I have those two. And then my married, my husband Nathan, and he only has one brother. So my kids really don't have that traditional, you know big Cajun family, all the cousins and stuff, which kind of makes me sad. But then we have extended family, like when we go hang out with y'all we hold it down.
Speaker 2:You know, we feel like family. We got y'all in that department.
Speaker 1:Yes, yes and we have other friends, some tronhons from Lake Arthur we were real close with. They have a huge family. So my kids think that they're all cousins. You know that's how we growing them up thinking they cousins, but they just not.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Not blood cousins Plenty, plenty of family to go around with all of our friends and everything, yeah, go around with all of all of our friends and everything, yeah.
Speaker 1:So we got married in 2010 and, uh, we have two girls and we said we're not chancing it, that we have another girl. So we we unless god says otherwise we done with children, um, and that that's it. We have a happy little house and a happy little home and and god has blessed us but you never know, because look, look, I don't want.
Speaker 2:My mama had two. My mama had two girls, and look how many grandkids we made. Well, you might have a big family to be happy with that.
Speaker 1:You know it's not how. It's not big right now, but later it could be yeah, it could be, and I would be so happy for that to have that and I hope they live right next door to me because I live next door to my parents and my in-laws that's such a blessing. I'm so jealous of you for that most people would be like you live next door to your in-laws like are you crazy? And I'm like no, I'm blessed, we get along so well and they're such a big help now I mean I wouldn't change it and my, my kids have both their grandparents right there that's.
Speaker 2:That's a blessing. All four of them too.
Speaker 1:Four, yes, oh man, it's amazing you know what to see, like what God has done and and we, just we, blessed in that area absolutely all right.
Speaker 2:We're going to mention our sponsor, pizzaville USA, and Church Point one more time.
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Speaker 2:And that is pretty much all we got for our second episode. How's your Mama Nim Of Coffee Talk with the?
Speaker 1:Cajun Mamas.
Speaker 2:Thank y'all so much for hanging out with us. We are going to mention the Pink Paisley one more time. The Pink Paisley has a special place in our heart. They do Come shop with them at the Pink Paisley in Lafayette on Arnold Boulevard. They have your candles, your jewelry, all the gifts you can think of Something for your maman, something for you to taunt, something for your babies, your wife and your husband too. All them showers and weddings you got to go to. There's something over there, oh my gosh.
Speaker 1:We encouraged her to start a wedding registry because of that she's got such nice things. There's so many things that you could give as wedding gifts over there. Yeah, and if you're not in the area in Lafayette, you can shop online at thepinkpaisleycom. They got T-shirts too. The T-shirts are so cute. You wearing one right now. It's got a pretty magnolia on it they have graphic shirts with some funny little cajun sayings on it. We have, we own many of those actually we do we do.
Speaker 1:Yes, so give thepinkpaisleycom a look and if you're in the area, go to the pink paisley at arnold boulevard in lafayette. Yes, and I'll thank y'all for, uh, for tuning in to this episode with us. Coffee talk with the cajun mamas. Next time we might do a little bit of talking about our faith and, um, how we're just trying to raise our, our kids right in this world I'm sure y'all can all relate to that. Absolutely, we'll see y'all next time.