Dixie Longate: Not Your Mother’s Tupperware Party

Filed under: Shop, Play — StyleGuide @ 8:20 pm

If you think that Tupperware parties went out in the 80’s, and that you have to be a Stepford Wife to appreciate shopping high quality plastics from your living room, you’ve never met Dixie Longate.

Leave it to a 6-foot-tall drag queen in a Dorothy-from-the-Wizard-of-Oz dress to bring Tupperware back. 

Dixie’s a fast-talking, hyperactive single mom with a shock of red hair and a raging libido, fresh from a Mobile, Alabama trailer park.  She started selling Tupperware to make her parole officer proud. 

Today she’s one of the top salespeople in the country, spreading her deliciously shocking and devilishly hilarious version of the Tupperware gospel, one houseparty at a time. 

Dixie’s X-rated show demonstrating Tupperware use (and abuse) has won over young and old, male and female, gay and straight.  (If you can believe it, Orange County Republican women are her best customers.) 

I came for the show, but in the end, the Tupperware won me over.  It appeals on a health level (Tupperware is made with the highest grade food-safe plastic — much better for you than other plastic products), on an environmental level (reusable Tupperware means less disposable packaging from leftovers and snacks), and on a fiscal level (aside from staying out of a landfill, a lifetime guarantee it means I won’t have to buy new containers to replace worn ones).

To schedule your own 45 minutes in heaven with Dixie, work with her to find a time for a no-charge houseparty.  Dixie’s so popular she’s turned her show into an off-Broadway play, and she’s planning to take it on a two-year nationwide tour.  So if you can’t get a date, search for “Dixie Longate” on YouTube.com.  Wet your beak with snippets of her show, then order Tupperware products through her site: www.dixielongate.com. 

Just be prepared for a Tupperware party that pushes the boundaries of taste. 

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