5.25.2007

Chutney Chunkey

There's this add on the radio for a Chutney party (Chutney is
Trinidadian Indian Soca) which they call a Chutney Chunkey, after the
waist twirling dance girls do to it. At the end of the ad a booming
woman's voice says "And if you don't know how ta Chunkey, come, we'll
SHOW YA howta Chunkey!"

I just realized that the reason I haven't gone to any clubs or
concerts here is that the music on the radio and the posters on the
street evoke such a perfect ideal of Trinidadian entertainment that
I'm afraid of sullying it by actually going to something.