While watching the gay travel show Bump, and its feature story on an Atlantis cruise to Greece, I discovered a six-foot tall redhead who may be the coolest Tupperware lady ever --- and yes folks the label "lady" is a state of mind here...
Pictured above is Dixie Longate. whose story is that after three marriages and on the advice of her parole officer, she left her kids behind in the trailer park in Alabama to sell that "fantastic plastic crap" which she says at first she didn't know was for the kitchen. And holy geez she has since become Tupperware's number two sales person (really?).
Dixie is seriously entertaining. Think Dame Edna, gayer. And from the deep south, fresh from the trailer park and and fresh from the prison, with a martini in one hand and a beer in the other, loudly calling everyone she meets a hooker. Pretty cool update of the Tupperware organization, huh?
Ms. Dixie now not only sells Tupperware, she tours her tupperware parties as an interactive (drag) show. You can check her out @ http://www.dixiestupperwareparty.com/. Here's hoping the party comes to my town...
9 comments:
I love it!
SSG
That is SO not your momma's Tupperware!!! Rock on!
I think it would be neet to watch.
Ray
Her show was in Minneapolis for three weeks. We went and had a very good time. I'd recommend seeing her if you get the chance!
I just checked her out. She even has a blog, "Dixie Longate talks about crap" at
http://dixielongate.wordpress.com/
I missed that episode of Bump! I'll have to catch both of them next time it's on.
Yes, I'll take a 5 salad bowl set in the harvest gold, please.
Now that's a Tupperware party. If Dixie was in charge I'm pretty sure I wouldn't need to spend the party trying to work out if I could use the salad spinner or melon baller to kill myself and thus leave early, like I do at the regular soul killing ones that I usually get dragged to. Though watching a Stepford mum popping a vein because the current season's colours don't match with their existing Tupperware is priceless. I'm thinking I could make a fortune doing Tupperware interventions :) Come to Aus Dixie!
We saw her on that episode also. She is hysterical! Now we are thinking of taking a cruise.
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