Queen Elizabeth’s English breakfast apparently gets a little Cajun spice. And in returning the favor, Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II has awarded a Royal Warrant to New Iberia-based The McIlhenny Co., maker of Tabasco sauce. For centuries, royal warrants have distinguished individuals or companies that have supplied goods or services for at least five years to the Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh or the Prince of Wales and officially allows them to advertise that fact.
According to a press release from The McIlhenny Co., Tabasco sauce and England have historically enjoyed a very strong relationship, since the iconic pepper sauce was first exported there in 1874. During World War II, the Queen Mother had her staff search London for Tabasco sauce, which was in short supply due to wartime constraints. As her deputy controller of supply wrote in his memoir, My Twenty Years in Buckingham Palace, “The Queen [Mother], when she was told that there was no more Tabasco sauce, took the news philosophically.”
“We’re absolutely delighted to know that Tabasco sauce has a place at Her Majesty’s table," says McIlhenny Co. President and CEO Paul McIlhenny. "England has always been very loyal to us, consistently ranking among the top markets in international sales. This is indeed a proud moment in Tabasco history.”
There will soon be a whole lot of shakin’ going on at Benny’s Sportshack Supplement Depot, a new concept by Opelousas native Benny Nele. Located at 2002 Johnston St., the supplement shop, smoothie bar and café, featuring hot off the press paninis and wraps, plans to open in late May.
Philip deMahy Sr., a once respected New Iberia ad exec, was sentenced May 2 to spend the next two years (he faced up to 100 years) in a state penitentiary after state and federal investigators found dozens of images depicting children engaged in lewd sexual acts on his personal computer.
This year’s Cool Town issue is all about people who are not native to South Louisiana but made a conscious decision to be here, to be among us, to participate in our culture and contribute to it.
A shelved ordinance transferring $200,000 from a northside drainage project to a south Lafayette development may not break any laws, but it stinks to high heaven.
An effort to restore a shuttered dancehall and document other vacant or razed honky-tonks could serve as a model for saving an endangered species of entertainment.
Lafayette’s gene pool has been host to a long line of eccentric characters who have blurred the lines between crazy, genius, disturbed and curiously entertaining.
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