{"id":830791,"date":"2025-03-01T13:11:59","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/machel-doubles-down-on-beenie-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com\/"},"modified":"2025-03-01T13:11:59","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T19:11:59","slug":"machel-doubles-down-on-beenie-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/01\/machel-doubles-down-on-beenie-news-extra-trinidadexpress-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Machel doubles down on Beenie | News Extra | trinidadexpress.com"},"content":{"rendered":"
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THE Trinidad and Tobago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TTSPCA) and soca star Machel Montano were among the most recent to provide a backlash to Jamaican dancehall icon Beenie Man (Moses Davis) for his apparently ‘negative’ comment about Trinidad’s beloved street food, doubles.<\/p>\n

The dancehall legend made the comment while on the Drink Champs podcast with hosts N.O.R.E. (Victor James Santiago Jr) and DJ EFN (Eric Fernando Narciandi), which premiered on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The controversial statement came up when the hosts asked Beenie Man a follow-up question of whether he eats doubles, after Beenie Man said that Trinidad was his favourite country besides Jamaica.<\/p>\n

‘I love Trinidad, but I don’t eat doubles, because dogs don’t eat doubles and I don’t eat anything that dogs don’t eat. I don’t eat doubles,’ Beenie Man said.<\/p>\n

He then doubled down on his response, ‘It (doubles) is nice but once I threw it to the dog and the dog didn’t eat it\u2026dogs eat chicken, dogs eat fish, dogs eat dumplings\u2026but the dog won’t eat the doubles.’<\/p>\n

His comment ignited a firestorm on social media, with many Trinis expressing outrage over what they see as a blatant insult to their national culinary pride.<\/p>\n

Yesterday, the TTSPCA seemed to have responded to the controversy with the posting of a video showing a worker feeding doubles to a dog, with Kenneth Supersad’s hit chutney soca ‘Doubles’ playing in the background.<\/p>\n

Also yesterday, Montano seemed to have his say with a video of him at a doubles stall wrapping the delicacy.<\/p>\n

In the background was a parody of his hit song ‘Pardy’ which mentioned the word doubles.<\/p>\n

On Tuesday, Foreign and Caricom Affairs Minister Dr Amery Browne took to Facebook to send his message.<\/p>\n

Browne posted a photograph of himself delighting in a hot doubles, eaten on location at a vendor’s stall. Bennie Man has not yet responded to the backlash.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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THE Trinidad and Tobago Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (TTSPCA) and soca star Machel Montano were among the most recent to provide a backlash to Jamaican dancehall icon Beenie Man (Moses Davis) for his apparently ‘negative’ comment about Trinidad’s beloved street food, doubles. The dancehall legend made the comment while on the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":830792,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2807,142119],"tags":[8774,142118],"class_list":{"0":"post-830791","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-doubles","8":"category-machel","9":"tag-doubles","10":"tag-machel"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830791","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=830791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/830791\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/830792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=830791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=830791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=830791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}