Magnolia Thunderpussy
My mother’s long time friend Liz came into town this week on business. Liz is a riot. My mother and her were roommates in San Francisco in the late 60’s.
Liz came to see “Farm Boys” on Sunday night with another roommate from San Fran in the 60’s…they lived in a huge Victorian in the Haight - Ashbury area. They lived with 8 other people…and had a ridiculous amount of fun. Liz told me there was a dessert place called “Magnolia Thunderpussy” that would deliver naughty-themed sweets at all hours of the night to you. That was the name of the woman who ran the place: Magnolia Thunderpussy. There was a “Montana Banana” (a whole banana flanked by two scoops of ice cream and chocolate shavings) and “Pineapple Pussy” (a hollowed out half of pineapple with whipped cream and such…).
One night they called in for a delivery and a very sad man answered. He said he was sorry but they couldn’t deliver anymore. “Magnolia Thunderpussy took all the money and left.”
I went online to verify this hippie memory. And its all true. Magnolia Thunderpussy went on to start a restaurant in wine country. And she died in 1996, I believe.
How totally fabulous.
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