Second-line Sundays wouldn't be the same without the inventiveness of these spirited, scrappy beverage vendors.
dedicated to the practice, puts it, second-lines are a lot like roving block parties, hosted and led by the city’s social aid and pleasure clubs. The clubs have their roots as mutual aid societies for Black New Orleanians, who were excluded from white-operated health and life insurance, and today the parades honor and celebrate the clubs’ history.
The usual New Orleans heat means second-line drinks have to be refreshing, but more than anything, they have to be portable. To-go drinks took on a new meaning during the height of the pandemic, when gathering in bars and drinking holes wasn’t an option. In Seiferth’s research for the HNOC’s exhibition, he noticed drinks vendors were popping up in photos of the parading practice by the 1990s.
Paxton herself didn’t start slinging second-line drinks until nearly a decade ago, when her love for making drinks for friends’ parties and hosting her own combined with the business sense she inherited from her mother. She noticed drinks vendors selling 1-ounce Jell-O shots and figured she could do a little better.
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