CHICAGO â There was a time when Parlour Tapes â cassette label, event planners, and sound experiment extraordinaires â came precariously close to breaking into the nut butter business.
Deidre Huckabay, Jenna Lyle and Zach Moore claim it was all the doing of Andrew Tham, their fellow Parlour Tapes owner. âA few years ago, Andrew found 90-pound bags of shelled almonds at Costco. He was like, âOK, hereâs the deal: We can make almond butter with some of these, then the rest we have to keep in the freezer so they donât go bad,ââ Lyle recounted during a recent Zoom interview, her voice pitching. Tham just laughed hysterically in another square, as sure an admission of guilt as any.