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What it takes to make doubles a national dish
Thursday 24 December 2020
In this May 30, 2020 file photo a customer collects her doubles from the popular Yellow Van Doubles in Aranguez on International Doubles Day. FILE PHOTO/SUREASH CHOLAI -
QUINCY ROSS
It’s been just about three weeks since the morning I woke up and found my Facebook feed smothered in some saucy trolling directed at Minister of Agriculture, Land, and Fisheries Clarence Rambharat. Yet, every walk past a doubles box still triggers some sort of post traumatic doubles disorder.
At a Point Fortin Borough Corporation event the minister did one of the top five most dangerous things to do in close range of the Trini public: he said some not so favourable things about doubles. In any context, that was a belly move. From harshly worded status updates to a local celebrity in semi-formal threads dining at his favourite doubles vendor in celebration and adoration, the public made their position on doubles as a national d