#ponchatoula

[nalyra-dreaming]

Hey! Enjoyed your deep dive into Antoinette. You mentioned two interesting topics I’m curious to know about, the selected make up and your doubts that the hotel scene actually happened the way it did. Would you mind expanding on those two topics? Thank you!

Hey!

Glad you liked!

Soooo while Antoinette is mortal she looks alluring (or is told to be alluring), and unchanged. This is an expression of the vampires finding all mortals beautiful, which is book canon. She is "The Mistress™", so she is this beautiful thing that draws Lestat away (albeit with a flat ass, as Claudia denotes^^).

However, as soon as she's actually turned (and loses her "mortal" appeal)... that changes:

Very strong wrinkles at the eyes suddenly. If you zoom in in the show you can see the applied texture.

I always found this detail very interesting, because this is explicitly applied makeup. It means that either Louis' view of her completely changed... or Louis did not quite witness the years that went by as changes in her body.

I tend to lean towards a mix of these possibilities, not only because it is book canon, but also because this happened with Grace as well:

No wrinkles, she looks a bit older maybe, but she looks beautiful. This is about 30 years later, but time did not really touch her. Because she looked beautiful to Louis.

Now, in Antoinette's case I also think that... maybe the hotel scene did not happen, actually.

There's a lot that ties into this speculation, so please bear with me:

The finger

Antoinette's hand is bloody after the fight, and the glove is off. Someone, Claudia, likely, has taken her finger - maybe again.

Episode 6, hotel:

Episode 7, pre incinerator:

Like... they are not the same. That's not the same wound. (For a show with these kind of details I do not think this is an accident.) I theorized for my fanfic and in the ask here that maybe Lestat had replaced it (he's older, and he knows that limbs etc can be replaced), and that Claudia took it off again because she was (rightfully) furious at the deception, but...

Claudia likes souvenirs. She takes a lot of souvenirs. Body parts. Fingers. Jewelry. That is not the same wound. I think by now, and I align with @virginiaisforvampires here, who wrote about this just earlier, that Lestat maybe never cut off Antoinette's finger, but decided to (maybe) deceive Louis and Claudia instead. When Claudia noticed during "murder night", that obviously must have made her angry, and she took what she thought was hers (and again, she likes taking souvenirs in any case).

2. Ponchatoula

Supposedly Antoinette is "stashed away in a hotel in Ponchatoula".

Now, Ponchatoula...

1h minimum with a car. More so then. Claudia and Louis cannot fly.

Which obviously does not make this impossible, don't get me wrong here. But another thing about cars comes into play then, if Claudia and Louis really went and drove to Ponchatoula, to stand outside of Lestat's hotel room, without him knowing, and them seeing somehow inside, without Lestat and Antoinette noticing. And they are both shown not to have been able to look inside from their viewpoint, which means they could not have been able to see the finger! (Or the neck wounds for that matter.) All they would have been able to witness are the sounds.

Here is the "car post". In very short, there is no way that a powerful vampire like Lestat would not have known that Claudia and Louis would draw near. No way.

Which means... either he gave a performance there (knowing they were there), or... that scene never happened.

I think Claudia told Louis, and Louis... extrapolated in his tale to Daniel. OR he believes it happened, or was made to believe it happened. I shared an interview with Jacob just yesterday where he said that Louis... "Louis believes that a lot of this is the truth. There are other things that he knows deep down are not true. He has to tell himself a version of it in order to cope."

Now, we know they said "all of it" would be revisited.

I'm not sure they will revisit this scene explicitly, but even if they do not... *shrugs*

3. The walk

Now, this is of course circumstantial.

But Louis and Claudia walking, in NOLA, and Claudia apologizing to Louis for showing him? If this is supposed to be right after, why didn't they talk in Ponchatoula? Why didn't they talk on the drive back? They went back to Rue Royale, parked the car, and then went out for a walk and then talked about it, approx. 90 minutes later?

It just doesn't make sense to me the way it is presented.

However, it does make sense if you remember that Louis wants to protect Claudia, wants to protect her image. He wants to keep her in mind as his daughter, and not as the vicious killer, the serial killing vampire who took souvenirs and liked to collect last words. Liked to kill indiscriminately, children, dogs, whoever. Adding to that the way this show is set up, and the way Louis seems to have been influenced...

I think that Claudia told him, and Louis knew Antoinette was somewhere in a hotel (given the hate-sex scene was at her house that in and by itself is interesting, too!). I think that walk happened in a similar fashion as shown, but not the same.

But I don't think Louis ever saw that finger (stump). He expected it to be there though, because Lestat had brought them a burnt finger.

And so all of this is shown to us as he tells it. Probably as he remembers it, right now.

"Let the tale seduce you", right?

We'll see how it will fit together after season 2^^.

[federer7]

February 1936. "Roadside fruit. Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana."

Photo: by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration

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[6emeaux]

[vaperarmand]

Louis "aren't I enough" du Lac? Not caring about cheating? Please. Even if we assume he didn't want Armand in the 70s, he's too much of a possessive bitch (affectionate) to not care.

EXACTLY LIKE??? louis has been fucking and sucking his way through the west coast for years with armand and He scouts a boy he thinks is different and who He turns into a token of his and armand's companionship and all of a sudden ARMAND has got the hots for him? armand, who cares less about the mortal men than he does, is suddenly head over heels for this boy? i also admit i'm attached to the idea that louis' feelings around it are initially ones of excitement because he's like. yes ha ha!! i'm getting to relive my most fucked up crazy lestat years with him!! (swam across the mississippi to fuck him etc) but this is such a different affair that it turns out to be a disappointment. lestat put his side piece in a shitty apartment in ponchatoula and armand bought a whole island for his boy with riches they amassed treasure hunting they are NOT the same. i'm sorry louis

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GSN Review: Hardhide Ponchatoula Strawberry Whiskey

Sidewalk Side Spirits, on the heels of their highly successful launch of their Gambino’s King Cake Rum Cream (reviewed here), recently announced the creation of Hardhide Ponchatoula Strawberry Whiskey. The fruited whiskey is a blend of 3-year wheat bourbon, American light whiskey, Cocktail & Son’s Lemon Strawberry Syrup, and fresh Ponchatoula Strawberries blended at 86 Proof in New Orleans at the…

[jaggedjot]

Three decades of loneliness and heartache, yet Claudia never asked whether Louis would make her an immortal companion. There are no idle musings about the possibility in her diaries, she did not tentatively suggest it to Louis after his recovery, and the question does not underlie the resentful silences between the pair in wartorn Europe. Claudia pleads with both of her parents to understand why she needs someone outside of them (“Who am I supposed to love? You two have each other. Who's my Lestat? Who's my Louis?”), but Lestat is the only one she beseeches to make another vampire. Even though this desire drives Claudia to repeatedly attempt to turn strangers herself (“Boy from Ponchatoula. Boy from Hollygrove. Boy with the bow tie out in Algiers.”), navigate a warzone in the hopes of meeting “just one” other vampire, and promise herself to the coven despite the clear danger, she seemingly never once asked Louis. And while there are many reasons that Claudia, as well as Louis, did not try to have Louis make anyone before Madeleine, the absence of that question is both conspicuous and damning.

[reality-detective]

The Police Chief calls it "The Blue Flu." 🤔

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[hometoursandotherstuff]

This 1904 home is so elegantly restored. It's a Victorian in Ponchatoula, Louisiana, has 6bd 3.5ba and is listed for $1.399M.

Look at the lovely central hall entrance. They have lots of antiques, but if would also look fabulous with less furnishings and some color.

You always get the custom made curtains with the house, so keep that in mind. The fireplace is so beautiful and I like the dark floors.

The smaller 2nd sitting room also has a fabulous fireplace.

The side hall is large enough for a baby grand piano.

Isn't this a lovely home office?

This is nice, a rounded every day dining room. It's got tons of natural light, a great view, and a door to the garden.

This is amazing. It does not look like a kitchen- at first glance I thought it was a bath.

I have never seen a more elegant kitchen. I wouldn't even want to cook in here to mess it up, it's decorated so beautifully.

And, here's the formal dining room. Gorgeous.

I'm loving this broody dark academia style room.

Nice spacious main bedroom with a classy chandy and fireplace.

Absolutely love this classy vintage bath.

Large secondary room with fireplace. Beautiful.

How classy is this vintage guest powder room?

Two more gorgeous bedrooms. I'm obsessed with this house.

Suite in the finished attic includes a walk-in closet.

Large yard has a garage/carriage house and a pond/cocktail pool.

[retropopcult]

"Roadside sandwich stand. Ponchatoula, Tangipahoa Parish, Louisiana." Photographed 1936 by Walker Evans for the Resettlement Administration.

[squirrellypoo]

It’s only just occurred to me how much harder Louis and Claudia discovering the revenants is going to hit in the tv show than in the book.

Louis’s reaction may not be very different, but Claudia, hoo boy. The difference being that show!Claudia has encountered their kind before and knows exactly what they are - because SHE CREATED SOME.

“No matter how much blood I give them, they just lie there gaspin'.”

“Boy from Ponchatoula. Boy from Hollygrove. Boy with the bow tie out in Algiers.”

We already know from the S2 casting calls that they’re most certainly Going There. Somehow I still don’t think I’ll be ready.

[sagan-starstuff]

Found in a restaurant and new head canon unlocked. M&S, on the run in 2004, living outside New Orleans, maybe close to Thibodeaux or Ponchatoula. Mulder tries to learn piano and sings to her on hot, humid nights. Fireflies dance through the Spanish moss. They wear rings.

[6emeaux]

[ausetkmt]

It’s Mardi Gras. Welcome to The King Cake Drive-Thru.

A tire shop parking lot has become a popular destination for those craving the beloved treat. The only problem: Which variety to choose?

By Rick Rojas

Reporting from Metairie, La., and the kitchen of Joyce’s Sweets in Ponchatoula, where he sampled a praline-filled cake fresh from the oven.

Of course Mardi Gras is about boundless revelry: the weeks of balls and the parades that shower the streets of New Orleans with beads. But beneath all that, it is also a period of metamorphosis.

A midwinter Tuesday transforms from the most mundane of days into a festival of frivolity and vice. People shed the cocoons of their regular lives and emerge plumed in feathers and sequins.

And this year, just outside New Orleans, a tire shop that for as long as anyone can remember sold only car parts has become a bustling marketplace offering king cakes, the delicacy of the Carnival season, in just about any conceivable flavor.

All you have to do is drive up.

“Any idea of what you want?” Tiffany Langlinais asked a customer who pulled up on a Friday afternoon.

It is a daunting question at the King Cake Drive-Thru. Flaky or fluffy? Filled with cream cheese? What about strawberries, ice cream, even crawfish — or nothing more than the traditional plastic baby? Cakes from more than a dozen bakeries are on offer.

Others have had the idea to sell king cakes culled from various local bakeries, at one location, like King Cake Hub in the Mid-City neighborhood of New Orleans. But the innovation of the King Cake Drive-Thru, which Ms. Langlinais opened in January with her fiancé, Mike Graves, is the added convenience of accessing that bounty of options without even needing to get out of the car.

The drive-through has drawn nurses headed to morning hospital shifts, parents with cars full of children, tourists on road trips and people with limited mobility or weakened immune systems keeping them from easily browsing bakeries. Even the food writer for the city’s main newspaper, The Times-Picayune, passed through.

“I’m surprised nobody thought of it before you, Mike,” David Scripter told Mr. Graves as he dropped off an order of dozens of cakes from Bittersweet Confections, a bakery started by his wife.

“Sometimes,” Mr. Graves said, “the best ideas are right in front of you.”

The drive-through, which takes over the parking lot of Duckworth Tires in the suburb of Metairie three days a week, often has a line of cars waiting when it opens at 7 a.m., and has sold out its inventory well before 7 p.m., its listed closing time.

King cakes have always been a staple of the Carnival season along the Gulf Coast, a crown of pastry served during a burst of gluttony and good times before the austerity and fish fries of Lent. (King cake season begins on Jan. 6 — known as Twelfth Night, Epiphany or Three Kings Day — and ends with Fat Tuesday, or Feb. 13 this year.)

A king cake, in what many consider its purest form, is a ring of brioche-like dough with a dash of vanilla, a crunchy coating of purple, green and gold sugar and a small trinket known as a fève — usually a plastic baby — baked inside.

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“It’s almost blasphemous to get cream cheese in it,” Pam Carr said the other day as she placed an order a staunch traditionalist never would: a pair of cream cheese and chocolate cakes to share with her co-workers at a warehouse store. “Those are the ones I like!”

King cakes are another front in a familiar New Orleans divide. There are those who believe that adhering to tradition means refusing to budge from how things have always been done, and those who maintain that experimentation and interpretation are not an insult to the past, but a tribute.

“Anyone can put anything in a king cake now,” Bridgett Saylor Meinke said as she surveyed the drive-through’s selection.

She grew up on old-school king cake but has been cautiously open to trying some newfangled varieties, like the bananas foster from Brennan’s (“Absolutely delicious,” was her take) and the strawberry cream cheese from Joe’s Cafe.

“That’s the one I’m on the hunt for today,” she said.

The drive-through’s menu varies some week to week, written on a white board by Ms. Langlinais. The couple buys the cakes from bakeries at a wholesale rate and sells them at a markup, with prices ranging from $17 to about $50 per cake. (They come in a range of sizes, too.)

On a recent weekend, there were plenty of traditional options, as well as the Bavarian cream from Caluda’s, an almond cake from District Donuts, boudin or crawfish varieties from Clesi’s Seafood, and lemon curd and vanilla bean cakes from Paw Paw’s Donuts.

The one with Vietnamese coffee filling from Dough Nguyener’s Bakery sold out quickly, as did the cinnamon cream cheese option from Tartine.

Ms. Langlinais wanted to lure customers with their favorite offerings from well-known spots but also nudge them toward cakes they may not know. Those from Joyce’s Sweets, a bakery in Ponchatoula, almost an hour away, are a prime example.

Joyce Galmon is known for her pralines, but she has made king cakes for 25 years, stuffing them with a filling made from broken pralines she could not sell.

“Miss Joyce has no social media,” Ms. Langlinais said. “You can only call her. She has no website.”

In past years, Ms. Galmon would sell as many as 90 cakes in a season. With the King Cake Drive-Thru, she has sold more than that in a single weekend.

Hers is a labor-intensive process, teasing out the dough, lathering on the praline filling, and then letting the cakes rest and rise for several hours. The result: a gooey, crunchy eruption of cinnamon and sugar.

“It’s got me on my toes,” Ms. Galmon said after delivering a fresh batch to the tire lot. “It was a hobby for me, but they’ve made it bigger.”

For all the excitement the drive-through has caused, it is a simple operation. From the street, it almost looks like a Covid testing site.

“No frills, as you can see,” Ms. Langlinais said, “with our tent and tables and Mike’s van.” She was referring to a raggedy but reliable 2007 Kia Sedona missing its middle seat.

Jimmy Duckworth, the owner of Duckworth Tires, gave them a pretty good deal on rent: a king cake a week. Last week, he got his favorite, the cinnamon cream cheese kind from Tartine.

“I’ve been very lucky in life,” he said. “Give them a break — why not?”

He nodded at Mr. Graves, who was busy helping customers.

“Look at him,” Mr. Duckworth said. “He’s all happy.”

A few years ago, Mr. Graves, 35, had been a lawyer in Manhattan, working in finance. Then he moved to New Orleans and started a novelty ice cream business called Bof Bars. He had no ties to New Orleans — he grew up in Chicago — but now he cannot imagine leaving. He and Ms. Langlinais are planning to get married in March.

Ms. Langlinais, who also owns a marketing business, grew up in a shrimping family in Biloxi, Miss., immersed in the elaborate world of Mardi Gras.

She became something of a king cake connoisseur. She has tried more than 100 varieties. She keeps a spreadsheet with detailed notes. (“Enjoyed the light filling but would want x3 for me to be truly happy,” she wrote of one encounter.)

“I know that it’s not a super refined operation,” Ms. Langlinais, 33, said, “but we want it to feel like us.”

There have been setbacks. One day last month, Mr. Graves woke up at 3 a.m. to find someone had busted a window on the minivan and stolen 100 cakes.

The whole endeavor has been exhausting: The excruciatingly early mornings hustling to collect the cakes at bakeries or rendezvous points in random parking lots. The 12-hour days on their feet at the drive-through. And there have been the urgent after-hours calls and texts.

“My kid didn’t tell me she got the baby!” said one friend desperate for a last-minute cake. (According to tradition, the one who finds the baby is responsible for supplying the next cake.)

The drive-through is usually open on Fridays through Sundays, but customers have asked if the couple would be selling cakes on Fat Tuesday.

Not a chance.

Duckworth Tires will be a tire shop again.

“I’ll be partying,” Mr. Graves said.

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