Three years ago I shared this on twitter:
And tonight we’re going to see CAKE. Which is amazing, except that we live in Texas and the concert is outside and I’m always overheated…to the point where I carry an embarrassingly giant cup of ice with me every where I go. So I told Hailey that I was worried I wouldn’t be able to last more than 30 minutes there and they said I should just bring a cooler of ice with me and I explained that you can’t bring shit into concerts and Hailey said I should just bring a doctor’s note. I told them that (oh, sweet summer child) concerts don’t work that way and Hailey explained that the world is different now, and maybe Hailey is right but I can’t bring myself to ask my doctor to write a note saying “DEAR CAKE, PLEASE LET JENNY HAVE ICE. HUGS, A TOTALLY PROFESSIONAL DOCTOR.”
So then Victor said that he was going to buy me a vest made of ice (which is a real thing) but I’m pretty certain they check for that sort of thing too and so instead he suggested I just freeze my bra, but it would be hot by the time that we got to the concert and then he was like, “I bet you could make a killing freezing bras at hot events” and I’m pretty sure you couldn’t but then he was like, “You could sell frozen raspas and also freeze bras” and then we both looked at each other and said, “FROZEN BRASPAS” and this is why we’re still married.
PS. Spellcheck is telling me that “raspas” is not a word and now I’m wondering if anyone will understand this because is this just something we have in the south? It’s like a snowcone but made with shaved ice and you can put fruit on them or chamoy or pickle juice or tajin. They’re delicious.
PPS. Now spellcheck is telling me that “chamoy” and “tajin” aren’t words either. OMG, get it together, spellcheck.
PPPS. Last week we took Hailey and their partner to a raspas place next to our house and inside the cooler they had “Squirt” soda and I was like, “SQUIRT! OMG, SQUIRT!” And the everyone in the place stared at me in horror and I pointed at the soda and was like, “When’s the last time you saw a Squirt? It’s been years” and then Hailey was like, “Mom, you can’t just yell ‘SQUIRT’ in a crowded shop” and when we went back last night they didn’t have any Squirt in the cooler and I can’t help but think this is all my fault and that the world is changing very quickly.
You just crack me up Jenny!
I have an ice vest! I don’t see why they wouldn’t let you wear one.
They do also make cooling packets for your bra fyi
Love CAKE! Jealous! Take one of those cooling neck scarves and dunk it in the icy water from the beer seller or one of the misting fans and fill it from the same water. I do that at the football games.
Read the title as brasps, and assumed (because it’s you) this would have something to do with bra wasps. I guess you could sell frozen bras, but have some extra special ones with wasps in them for people who are rude?
You could also get cooling towels for your neck.
I’d scream too if I saw Squirt! It’s not nearly as common as when I was a kid.
Here in BC Canada, we just call a raspas either a snow cone, shaved ice, or Hawaiian shaved ice. Depends on who’s selling it. No idea what chamoy and tajin are.
Freezing your bra sounds like the best option. Every concert that I have been to, inside and out, any food or drink is promptly confiscated, so probably ice cubes would be too.
You could always ask at the concession when you get into the grounds, but they might just suspicious and think that you want ice for your smuggled in alcohol!
I hope that you have a great time!
Restaurant stops selling Squirt after woman loudly exclaims “SQUIRT” when seeing it and other mundane patrons become offended. Film at 11:00.
We don’t have raspas here in Seattle but they sound amazing! And so do braspas! By the way, it IS surprising they had squirt and I think your enthusiasm/willingness to live out loud is refreshing. So there.
In high school I was serving at a fancy event at my school and all we had was Coke and Squirt. So I walked up to a girl and asked what she wanted. She said Sprite and I said “Don’t have Sprite, do you want a Squirt?” And she cracked up and I walked to the back of the room and proceeded to pass out from embarrassment.
I have the same problem!!
You could try one of the Daiso stores in San Antonio. It’s a Japanese store. And I’ve seen some videos of cooling items people in Japan use. Daiso might have one of the neck ring coolers. It’s kinda like a bangle bracelet but for your neck. And it’s supposed to help keep you cool for, like 3hrs. Also, they have a hat that’s up protection but also has a little fan in it. Or they also have hats with a little insert that’s a cold pack.
(I know, I’m bad at describing things. 🤭)
I hope my rambling made some sort of sense. Or was of some help to you.
Lisa
Here’s what the neck ring looks like:
https://icebear.en.made-in-china.com/product/DFcfJXyCkVUj/China-TPU-PCM-Wearable-Hands-Free-Neck-Cooling-Tube-Neck-Cooler-Wrap.html
Raspas are totally a delicious south Texas thing.
I also have issues with overheating due to having MS. I use cooling towels, and a cooling bolero. Only downside is you have to keep getting them wet to stay cool so a gallon baggy of water is helpful. Most outdoor venues do have ADA accommodations so you just need to ask when you get there.
This makes me so happy! I live in Sacramento and we used to go watch Cake play almost every weekend. Have fun – and stay cool!! ❤️
Maybe the shop just ‘sold out’ of Squirt when everyone heard your excitement about it. “If Jenny Lawson likes Squirt, we need to try one”…eh? Whole different perspective.
In the Philly area, RA spas are called Water Ices and I know. 🤦🏻♀️
I didn’t name it; just reporting the facts.
Oooh, they make ice vests?
I would love an ice bra, even if it dripped and wet my shirt. Hot flashes and vasovagal syncope sweats make it impossible for me to consider going to a concert or anywhere I can’t sit down inside with the air conditioner set on high.
And too many people in crowds gives me panic attacks and I can’t breathe. So I would need my back up against the wall with lots of space between the crowds of people and myself, sitting on a cooler full of ice, with my ice tea and ice vest and gallons of ice water or ice teas or lemonade with ice cubes and lots salty snacks so I don’t pass out.
If I saw Squirt, I’d have to try it, up in the northeast we never see it, but we have Mountain Dew and Fresca or Gassossa from Foxon Park soda company.
We have shaved ice and we call them that, or snow cones, or Italian ice here.
I hope you stay nice and cool and unabashed in your enthusiasm for the things that make you happy. More people should feel free to do that.
First concert, Peter, Paul and Mary, as a kid, last concert The Rolling Stones, best concert a tie between them and Prince with Sheila E on drums.
We have tickets for Cake tomorrow night, and I’ve been watching the weather forecast for a week and it’s just gotten worse and worse. I am very heat sensitive (I have MS) so I probably won’t go to the show — this is the second time I have bought tickets to see Cake outdoors and haven’t gotten to go. But I knew it was a long shot when I bought the tickets. Maybe someday they will play here inside? Or in winter?? Also, I have one of those cooling ice vests. It’s… OK. Also also, raspa is just the Spanish word for snow cone. And now I really, really want one.
I overheat really easily too. My boyfriend got me a little fan that I can keep in my purse. It’s the best present I ever got!
https://www.amazon.com/Gaiatop-Portable-Handheld-Foldable-Rechargeable/dp/B0BRZXBXCW/ref=sr_1_1_sspa?crid=3HGBPI1NADLGD&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.WJyMi-Ye8y_H9IqGH7hcE4AtioLSxiqi1O4CZ-sTp-O2YW-6uKW_QzPtbjl9Om292Ou2Ud6ZwxzYHZK39lDOAgarGUnhiFkejQPPlwD3Zx26–QonAU7Yrz3v9eFhox-27UW1rsT9h8BcHCJON0tSH8PZ5yDPyRjvJgWXF2NTvFEUi1ee6kQk7o1MxbKPApO84Zq6Xgmb2iSBJpcFa3UDxhLyYepsfl5e_wrK4BIqqgR5UWZfeLB4X_cQ0akb30UKCdtXtv160VwHOxl10uVT8ufXBMz18BqNUY6R3RZaXg.FXBFwxgbDZ7KyDvphgwWwXM1TAvc7kG_Za48zl5CLbg&dib_tag=se&keywords=portable%2Bfan&qid=1726168398&sprefix=portable%2Bfan%2Caps%2C91&sr=8-1-spons&sp_csd=d2lkZ2V0TmFtZT1zcF9hdGY&smid=A13VGDGRO65DRT&th=1
In the Bay Area, they are granizadas, and the ice is supposed to be the texture of sanding sugar. They are more slushy than a Hawaiian shaved ice but very syrupy sweet. We has a chain classed Slush Puppy which had that same coarse ide as opposed to Icee which the ice is indiscernible like a margarita machine. The local granizadas also had surprising flavor combos but no toppings. Slush Puppies prettymuch only came in cherry.
there are ice wraps for the treatment of migraines. you could wrap this around your neck and it would cool your arteries and veins, which would cool your body. be brave! be honest about your needs! see cake!
My bestie dragged me to see Pink last summer (I didn’t put up much of a fight) but the concert was outside on literally the hottest day of the year, like it broke records hot. I got a personal neck fan off amazon for $20-30 and it saved my life. I was still a sweaty, soggy mess by the time we got to the car but I didn’t die.
I also planned ahead and had a cooler stocked with ice cold gatorade and water stashed in the trunk so we could rehydrate while trying to get out of the parking lot.
Mission products, evaporation cooling, dip in water evaporation process resulting in cooling hats mask towels neckerchiefs, recharge with your water bottle as needed
Special properties to fabric
SQUIRT! OMG…took me back to growing up in California. I miss Squirt…and also Vernor’s ginger ale. (Love you shouting “SQUIRT!” in public.)
Couldn’t you get some of those gel pads you’re supposed to put in your bra, freeze those, and slip them in your bra at the concert? This is giving me fun flashbacks to when I was breastfeeding and I kept the soothing nipple pads in the fridge. Also the cold cabbage leaves for mastitis felt amazing. Maybe bring a frozen cabbage to the concert and occasionally stuff leaves down your shirt?
We have cooling vests for our mechanics who work outside in the Phoenix heat. You could probably get one of those in.
I overheat easily and that’s why I don’t live in the south. But also, I absolutely love Squirt and haven’t seen it anywhere in years so I would probably have had the same reaction.
There are times when it’s acceptable to yell”Squirt”! And it’s a terrific soda. SQUIRT!
If you go to concessions and ask for a cup of ice they’ll usually give you a big ass cup that would normally be filled with beer but full of ice instead. Then I rub that on the back of my neck because I’m too cheap to buy an ice vest 😉
You know, this TOTALLY reminds me about a chapter in one of my favorite author’s books, about working in a snow-cone shack…
And I’m picturing you going up to a snow-cone shack, and saying, “Can you just put it… like… a medium in each cup?” while holding your bra forward.
Pro tip: Skip the syrup.
My first concert: Ronnie James Dio and Twisted sister. My last concert:Storm Large -Listen to Eight Miles Wide. Loudest and messiest concert: Gwar – I ended up covered in corn syrup blood.
Look into a neck fan!
Fortunate to have both raspas AND Squirt!/DietSquirt! where I live. (Have a 12-pack of the latter in the pantry.) I’ll echo the neck-cooling-system — there are some that look like little scarves.
I live in Western Colorado, where it also gets hotter than hell. I’m dealing with perimenopause too, which sucks. Bi bought myself one of these, since I’m almost always overheated when I get back from walking my little dog:
Charmyth Neck Cooling Tube, Cooling Starts Below 15°C (59°F), Reusable Neck Cooler Ring, Neck Cooling Tube for Summer Outdoor Indoor Cooling and Heat Dissipation (Purple) https://a.co/d/cRz2h0z
It freaking works! I love this thing!!! 💜
My last outside concert was Linkin Park’s Projekt Revolution in 2007 in Selma when the Verizon Wireless Amphitheater was still around. After the show I had a raging migraine but so worth it as it was my last time seeing Chester live.💔
I run hot and the menopause ain’t helping either. These things are magic:
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Amazon has chargeable fans that look sort of like a headset, you turn it on and put it around your neck it has I think three speeds and it got me through Italy in september.
I like to think that my vocabulary is pretty extensive, but apparently I am aligned with your spellcheck, because I don’t think I have ever heard any of the three words that you mentioned that it had trouble with. I did look up all of them, and perhaps the confusion is due to regional differences, because I live in a part of the US that doesn’t have a particularly large Hispanic population.
Hope some of the suggestions for staying cool are helpful and you can go enjoy the concert!
I don’t miss Twitter given it’s a bastion of bigotry now, but I miss things like this.
Here in Australia … I understand CAKE, heat, ice and bras and the rest of this is a mystery.
I have to bite, what is chamoy and tajin???? Sounds very exotic. In NS Canada we just have snow cones, which is shaved ice with fruit syrup flavours poured over top.
Get a bodice chiller to shove between the girls! And a little handheld fan from Amazon.
In Arizona I used to stick ice packs in my pockets, and put a half-gallon sport top water bottle half full into the freezer overnight, so I’d have a huge block of ice that would melt much more slowly. And you should totally get a doctor’s note that says something like, Dear Cake, Jennie has medical conditions and medications making her more sensitive to heat, and requires all this ice so she doesn’t become a medical emergency in the middle of your nice concert. Love, The Doctor. Then they’ll only ask you about which Doctor used to be your companion.
Goddamn, spellcheck needs some cultural awareness, lol. Last time I heard someone say a margarita was rimmed with chili flakes I had to email them because if you’re going somewhere that rims their drinks with just chili instead of tajin or chamoy, you need a new bar.
Woops, I spelled Jenny wrong!
Also Hailey and whoever else is with you might be able to carry extra ice for you. And maybe if you whisper MENOPAUSE to a guard (or shout it), they will turn colors and wave you through with all the ice you could want
Maybe spellcheck doesn’t know raspas because it’s short for raspados. Yummy. Gonna have to try the pickle juice, though
I feel bad for everyone who’s saying they don’t know what Tajin or chamoy is. The local Mexican ice cream place has mangonada sorbet that’s to die for (rich mango sorbet with Chamoy swirls, and a sprinkle of Tajin on top).
So, last night I’m at a meeting and someone mentions that she is renting an automatic icing machine for her son’s surgery. Apparently, it ices the area that’s been operated on in 20 minute cycles or some such. I was immediately distracted by wondering if you could plaster something like that under your lady bits for delightful hot flash or hot weather relief??? I mean, looking at something similar on Amazon, it would be like carrying around a small cooler but is there potential here? And it’s a medical device! That’s a pretty good excuse to bring into a concert, even if you haven’t had knee surgery, right?
Now I’m fascinated by this idea…
I saw Cake about 20 years ago in Sacramento. A friend of mine is the sister of the drummer at the time, so free tickets. It was great
Braspas for summer. Ugg bras for winter. I’m in!
Ice vests are life savers. How do I know, you ask? Summer Shakespeare in the Park. IN HOUSTON.
Just remembered going to Counting Crows in 2000, first concert after child’s birth. Security asked me what I was surreptitiously taking out of my blouse. I showed him a soaked breast pad. He went away very quickly.
I had a waitress with a personal air conditioner around her neck… Looked like she had head phones around her neck. She said it really works.
That would save you from mounds and vests and bras of ice and melting etc!
Well, I don’t know about the rest of you lot, but I have a sudden and serious craving for a girl with a short skirt and a looooooooooooooong JACKET!
Weird: I was at the Food4Less tonight and they had both real Squirt and store brand (I live in San Diego). And I was just saying the other day how much I used to love it until I read the ingredients and it said “esters of wood rosin” and I was like whaaaat?
It’s grapefruit flavoured, and so is Fresca.
Your Pal,
Storm the Klingon
Jenny.
The squirt was gone because you alerted EVERYONE in earshot it was available. Immediately sold out after you told everyone. Btw, squirt is readily available here in the Chicago area. It doesn’t have the 15 foot facing that Pepsi and coke do, but it’s got a home on the shelves in the grocery stores.
Number 1 best concert I ever attended hands down? Paul McCartney. I would highly encourage anyone who has never seen him to do so if the opportunity presents itself. I’ve always loved the Beatles and my daughter bought us tickets to see him in 2019. He was on stage for 3.5 hours . The only time he sat down was when playing the piano. It was the most amazing concert I’ve ever attended.
When we moved to TX from MA we had to give away CAKE tix we had for up there. I wish i saw they were playing here. It would’ve been awesome to go 😢
Pretty sure cooling vests qualify as a medical device. People with MS use them all the time…
I love cake! They are so wonderful!
Get thee to Amazon for a fan that plugs into your phone. I buy several at a time bc I end up giving them away.
You’ve hit the age of invisibility (I’ve been there a while). I’m pretty sure you could walk in carrying a kilo of cocaine and no one would notice. It seems like an ice vest would be no problem.
How was Cake? And what cooling mechanism did you choose?
(Cake was great, but hot. I kept a drink on me and stayed in the shade and threw water on my face in the bathroom when it got too bad. ~ Jenny)
Because Squirt may be my favorite kind of pop, you should know, they have Squirt in the Fountain Drinks at Buc-ee’s. It is my go-to Buc-ee’s drink!
What kind of tree did they give away??
(A Mexican Plum. ~ Jenny)
Whoever brought Squirt to Texas, befriend them, adopt them, abduct them for they are a GOD.
Mixes nicely with gin and a twist of lime.
Please, please, please invent Braspas. I wear a 38 H bra and during summer months my bras stay soaked and NO one wants to see a 72 year old woman going bra-less.
Last year we were melting at the NY Ren Faire & found bodice coolers! They’re a metal tube (the Mr says they’re a cigar tube?) that you fill with ice and stick in your cleavage. Mine has a pewter dragon that peeks out from the cork that holds the ice & water in. They work really well! It was 90+, the ice melted a few times but we didn’t. 🙂
After I accidently became the First Aid officer for my son’s sporting club, I found a box of out-of-date (but still working) instant ice-packs in the store room. I absolutely kept them to combat my body’s broken thermostat. I activate the coldness then pop one in each bra cup and I’m good to go. Plus you can use them for other ice-pack requiring situations, such as twisted ankles caused by chronic clumsiness. And I found some instant heat packs (also out of date) that I activate and put in my back pockets. That feels like having a comforting hand on my bottom, without having to put up with people touching me.
I love you, Jenny! 🤣
This is hilarious! Your story about the ice-bra and frozen raspas is pure comedy gold. It’s amazing how a simple observation can lead to such absurd and creative ideas. I can totally picture the scene at the raspa place. Keep sharing your humorous anecdotes. They always brighten my day!
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