Fat Mama’s Tamales 25 Year Anniversary, June 14, 2014, Natchez, Mississippi #FMT25

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Friends & Neighbors,

#FMT25 Update:

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Fat Mama’s Tamales will be celebrating 25 years in business on June 14, 2014!  We are packing the day full things and hope you will stop by, say hello, relax, and celebrate with us! 

We will have live music from 11:00 am – 3:00 pm and from 4:00 pm until 8:00 pm.  We will have our beer garden up and running outside with shaded seating, tons of cool FMT gear to give away, Five almost life sized donkey sculptures painted by local artist on display, The Krewe of Fat Mama’s will be on hand, We will live stream tweets that use #FMT25, and more.

I wish I could tell everyone about the cool FMT gear to give away, but you will have to wait until June 14, 2014, but we tried to make sure we got some unique stuff to give away to everyone!

The artists who are painting the donkeys are Aimee Guido, Tim Givens, The League of Extraordinary Artists, Maggie Dean & Sim Hicks!  They each have spent countless hours working on these paintings, as they are roughly 55 inches long, 40 inches tall and 14 inches thick, and have various surfaces and angles that have required a lot of planning on top of the amount of time to paint each one!  We have pretty much asked each artist to plan, design, paint, and delivery these sculptures to Fat Mama’s with almost anything they wanted to portray, we did offer some suggestions, however we have not seen any of the donkeys while they have been and are getting painted, and we made sure to let each artist know that they are free to design and paint these sculptures as they see fit.

It is our hope to display this painted donkeys around town at select locations to be determined, once we have revealed them on June 14, 2014!

 

The music line up is:

Ben Lewis 11:00 – 12:00

Charlie Hugg 12:00 – 1:00

Travis McCready 1:00 – 2:00

Speakeasy – 2:00 – 3:00

From 3:00 pm – 4:00 we will have a meet and greet with the donkey sculpture artist

Delta Mountain Boys 4:00 – 8:00

We are still working on the beer garden menu, but it will feature regional craft beers from Mississippi and Louisiana, and inside we will have our 8 taps running a variety of brew for you to choose from.

If anyone has any photo’s of Fat Mama’s over the last 25 years, funny stories, any special memories, we would love to hear about them, you can email anything and everything you think we may be interested in to fatmamas@bellsouth.net

As always we are ever so thankful for everyone support over the last 25 years, and with out you, all of Fat Mama’s would never had grown into what we are!

We look forward to seeing everyone on June 14, 2014!

~Fat Mama

P.S. Finally but certainly not least, we will have discounted food & beverage items all day!

25 Years of Fat Mama’s Tamales! June 14, 2014, Natchez MS

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Friends & Neighbors, Fat Mama’s Tamales will be turning 25 years old in June 2014! It is hard to believe it was almost 27 years ago it all started with a weekend tamale making project at the house!  As many of you may know we started at our house, making tamales once a week, making […]

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AmericasMart Blog Post Mention

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Friends and Neighbors,

Fat Mama’s was recently listed in blog from the AmericasMart Blog!  You can check it out at Taste of the South, AmericasMart Blog!

AmericasMart host the Atlanta Gift Market which is the largest single product collection and provides over 1,400 permanent showrooms as well as over 2,500 temporary exhibiting companies and is the largest gift market in the United States.  Buyers from across the United States and internationally attend to purchase various items and collections for single location gift and gourmet stores to large big box store gift departments.  The learn more about the Atlanta Market checkout AmericasMart.

Fat Mama’s Tamales won “Best Pickled Product” in September of 2013 with our “Fire & Ice” Pickles from all pickle related entries and is currently displaying until March 9, 2014 in the temporary booths.  To learn more about our booth, check out our info on AmericasMart website!

If you are interested in possibly carrying Fat Mama’s Tamales products in your gift store, gourmet food store, liquor store or otherwise, please feel free to contact us at your convenience!

Melissa Brown, New Wholesale Account Manager, 601-807-8030, MBrown@fatmamas.com

Jamey Hudnall, Existing Wholesale Account Manager, 601-807-5062, JHudnall@fatmamas.com

Thank You,

~Fat Mama

 

 

 

5 Must Eats in Mississippi – Travellersoul76.com

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Fat Mama’s Tamales Restaurant was just listed on www.travellersoul76.com as one of the “Must Eat” places for Hot Tamales in Mississippi!

We always love hearing about our customer’s experiences and after reading this site, not only it is an interesting article but written by a very interesting person.  If you get a chance check out her website and enjoy!

Here is the link to her site! http://travellersoul76.com/

Here is the mention:

“At Fat Mama’s Tamales in Natchez, you can accompany your tamales with a famous “Knock-You-Naked Margarita.” You can eat the handmade tamales by themselves, or in a Gringo Casserole covered with chili and cheese. And once you’re back home, you can order vacuum-sealed tamales by the dozen.”

~ Fat Mama

Fat Mama’s Tamales Holiday Schedule 2013

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Friends & Neighbors,

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  Even though we are a little early, we wanted to let everyone know our Holiday schedule.  We hope everyone has had a great 2013, and is looking forward to a prosperous 2014!

Here is our Holiday Schedule & Early January Schedule:

December 24, 2013 – Closing at 3 pm

December 25, 2013 – Closed for Christmas Day

December 26, 2013 – Re-open at 11:00 am

January 1, 2014 – Closed for New Year’s Day

January 2, 2014 – Re-open at 11:00 am

January 14, 2014  – Closed for general maintenance & cleaning

January 15, 2015 – Re-open at 11:00 am

We hope everyone has safe travels both to and from wherever you may be heading this Holiday season, and we are looking forward to a big 2014 in Natchez, MS as Fat Mama’s Tamales will be turning 25 years old!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Years!

~ Fat Mama

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project

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Friends & Neighbors

We would like to thank everyone for their support for our “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project we launched on Kickstarter.com. 

We did not reach our funding goal of $39,999 and we will not be able to purchase the 25 full size fiberglass donkey sculptures and distribute them to local artist to be painted and displayed.  We would have really enjoyed bringing this project to life and providing Natchez with a unique project, we hope this project will inspire others to launch crowd-funding projects that can have a positive outcome in our community!  For those who pledged to the project, we are grateful for you support of Fat Mama’s Tamales and our project!

 

We ended up with 46 backers who pledged a total of $6,062, or 15.15% of our goal.  We had over 750 video views and over 500 Facebook shares.  It was an eye opening event, both in terms of setting up, organizing, planning and launching our first crowd-funded campaign, and while financially unsuccessful, the lessons learned will be invaluable moving forward.

Fat Mama’s will continue to work on some different ideas to celebrate our 25 year anniversary in June 2014 and we look forward to continuing to making positive investments in our community!

Thank you for everyone who pledges, offered their support, time, effort and ideas!

~Fat Mama

Fat Mama’s Thanksgiving Schedule 2013

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Fat Mama’s Tamales will be closed on November 28 ,2013 for Thanksgiving. We will be open our usual hours the Wednesday before (11/27/2013) until 9:00 pm and we will re-open on November 29, 2013 at 11:00 am!

We hope everyone has a wonderful Thanksgiving, and for those who are braving the Black Friday crowds, come warm up with us for lunch with Hot Tamales, Homemade Chili and a cold beer before getting back out to knock out your holiday shopping!

Of course our “Knock-You-Naked” Margarita Mix and “Fire & Ice” Pickles make great stocking stuffer, as we also have bottle cap artwork and Sims Hicks “Natchez, MS” posters available for sale!

Happy Thanksgiving

~Fat Mama

 

 

Fat Mama’s Tamales Wins Small Business of The Year – Natchez Chamber of Commerce

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Friends & Neighbors

Fat Mama’s Tamales received the Small Business of Year Award from the Natchez/Adams Chamber of Commerce!

Fat Mama’s Tamales is honored to receive our award from the Natchez Adams Chamber of Commerce, and we greatly appreciate being recognized for our efforts to provide a unique restaurant, community service and overall value for our residents and guests in Natchez, MS!  This award is accepted on behalf of the Fat Mama’s Tamales Staff, Fat Mama’s Tamales Staff families, The Krewe of Fat Mama’s, Britton & Jimmy Gammill, and most importantly on behalf of all those who have enjoyed Fat Mama’s Tamales in the past, as well as those who will enjoy it in the future!

Here is a link to article from the Natchez Democrat! http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/2013/10/30/biglane-smith-named-natchezians-of-the-year/

Thank you to everyone’s support over the last almost 25 years, and we are looking forward to another eventful 25 years!

~ Fat Mama

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project

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Friends & Neighbors

Calling All Natchez Artist!

Fat Mama’s is now accepting applications from individuals who wish to be selected to paint one of the twenty-five fiberglass donkey sculptures.  Please complete the application and email to Info@FatMamasTamales.com or mail to P.O. Box 1191, Natchez, MS 39121.

The deadline to submit your application is December 2, 2013 12:00 pm central standard time.

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Artist are encouraged to contact organizations and businesses to sponsor them as a local artist, and pledge to the project, either together or separately.  All pledges made will be considered in the artist selection process, as well as the painted donkey sculpture display location application.

Questions and comments can be made to Info@FatMamasTamales.com

Fat Mama's Tamales 25th Year Celebration on June 14, 2014

Much love for everyone who has pledged so far, we still have a long way to go, and with your pledge, support and help in publicizing this project we will have a great project taking place in Natchez, Ms!

Click below for the artist application

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Artist Application

~ Fat Mama

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project

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Friends & Neighbors

Fat Mama’s Tamales just released a project on kickstarter.com!

We are attempting to crowdfund an art project in Natchez, MS in conjunction with Fat Mama’s Tamales turning the ripe old age of 25 in June 2014.

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project, will provide our community free standing donkey sculptures, painted by local artist and artist with a Natchez connection, that we feel inspire, provide art in public places and ultimately enrich the “Natchez Experience” for everyone who lives and visits our community!

The Krewe of Fat Mama’s along with Fat Mama’s Tamales is excited to launch this project and see it through to completion.

This project is an “All-Or-Nothing” project in that all funding must be raised by November 28, 2013, or all pledges will be cancelled and this project will not take place.  Any pledge no matter how large or small is greatly appreciated and will help move this project forward.

You can view the project at:

Fat Mama’s “25 Donkey” Freestanding Art Project on Kickstarter.com

We appreciate your support over the last 25 years and being a positive influence in our community for years to come!

~ Fat Mama