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In this episode, meet Designated Drinker, Donna Black. She shares more than just her icy treats and a few laughs with us, she takes us on her journey into owning and operating a business that has been dishing out a uniquely delicious New Orleans icy treat, since 1949.
In 1979, Donna Black's husband Claude insisted that the couple buy a family-owned snoball stand, which had by then been shoveling syrup-drizzled snow for over 35 years. Though Claude had been their devoted customer since childhood, Donna didn't really know what made this business so special. In other words, she was going in cold, preparing to become a snoball stand proprietor with little insight into the delicate art of syrup mixology or the summer afternoon crush of sweaty customers clamoring for something to cool their overheated palates. Now, more than thirty years later, she quite confident to call herself a snoball "barmaid," as she knows each customer, with the intuition of a dedicated drink-pourer, by his or her favorite flavor.
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