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Some People Claim That There is a Woman to Blame...

 

Way back in the beginning of my "College Daze" there was this woman and her boyfriend from Corpus Christie, Texas or the "Texas Riviera" as I like to call it...One night we went over to one of their friend's houses to party and I was introduced to the "Son of a Son of a Sailor" and "Changes in Attitudes...Changes in Latitudes" via a vinyl record also known at the time, as an album. This was about 1981.

Well hell, I had never heard anything like that before.They didn't play those kind of songs over the airwaves on Q102 or KZEW in the DFW Metro area where I grew up but they did on Coast101 on Padre Island.

"Cheeseburger in Paradise" "Margaritaville" "A Pirate Looks at Forty" "He Went to Paris" "Grapefruit Juicy Fruit" "Why Don't We Get Drunk & Screw" It all sounded like a good idea to me at the time.

So like an epiphany, I knew then that I had found me a home, but I got lost somewhere along the way...up and until about 1991 when I was living at the Home for Wayward Husbands of Southwest Airline Flight Attendents, in Arlington,Texas (If you don't believe me you can look it up:)

It was then and there in the early 90's that some other women invited me and a few of the other "Waywards" to the old Starplex Amphitheatre to see this guy named Jimmy Buffett and his Coral Reefer Band.

Before I had the chance to say otherwise it seemed, we were gathered around the pool at the Home for the Wayward Husbands drinking margaritas, wearing grass skirts and funny hats while singing all of the aforementioned songs from my past. It was like the best Homecoming I never had.

Needless to say, I hardly remember my first Buffett Concert except for the fact that we got there early and partied in the parking lot with all the other Parrotheads. We sat in the grass under the moonlight of a fine Texas Summer Evening on blankets and sleeping bags and we all sang along to "Fins to the Left...Fins to the Right" as the lights went out in Georgia.

So after all that, you may be wondering what it all has to do with the Margarita Shack?

We'll let me tell you. I became afflicted with Margarita Madness.

In other words, in my real life, I got mad when I had to pay $6-$8.00 dollars for a top shelf margarita that tasted like shit and woke me up with heartburn in the midlle of the night. At the time I was traveling the country as an insurance restoration consultant and loss mitigator after hurricanes, tornados, hail storms, floods and other assorted natural disasters. I was eating out every night at the best restaurants in the biggest cities in the USA...Dallas, Houston, Austin, Denver, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Kansas City, Chicago, Minneapolis, Baltimore, Washington DC, Virginia Beach, Atlanta, Nashville, Louisville...you name it I have had a margarita there!

So I decided that if I wanted it done right I was going to have to do it myself. SO I DID!

I started interviewing every bartender I could find from coast to coast and I tried every combination of ingredients you could possibly think of for about two years. Then one day I failed my way to success so to speak when I was making margaritas at a pool party and the rest they say is history. NO HEARTBURN & GREAT TASTE! GO FIGURE...

A couple of months later in November of 2001 after I figured out how to package, label and ship etc...I went to another Jimmy Buffett concert in downtown Minneapolis at the Target Center with a few Margarita Shack T-Shirts that I designed and some of my mix that I had concocted. I sat on the back of my pick-up truck and started giving away samples in the parking lot and selling a few t-shirts...as a result, I decided to build a store on the internet a few days later to share my frozen concoction that helps me hang on with the rest of the world via the World Wide Web.

Ten years later we are still proudly serving what many refer to as "The World's Finest Instant Margarita Mix" at http://www.MargaritaShack.Com

 

CHEERS!