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Jillionaire Instagram – Growing up in Trinidad, my grandparents would take me to the Queen’s Park Savannah every carnival Tuesday to watch The Parade of The Bands. My grandmother would pack a big pot of pelau (a pigeon peas and rice pilaf with stewed chicken or beef), a bottle of nuts, a sponge cake and some sort of fresh squeezed fruit juice into the back of my grandfather’s Ford Cortina, and we’d camp out in the Savannah all day, watching the sea of colors go by.⁣
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My aunts, uncles and their friends would stop in for a plate of food, lazing in the grass for a brief moment, summoning the energy required for the rest of the day’s revelry. Before running off to rejoin the band, they would leave me with scraps of costume – a headpiece here, a waistband there.⁣
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I miss carnival | Posted on 24/Feb/2022 21:01:27