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Mary Sue Wood serves a customer some of her special flavored lemonades from the two-horse trailer she converted for her BlackJack Citrus Infusions.
Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
A refreshing glass of lemonade doesn’t necessarily scream southwest unless you get it from somewhere like the local food truck BlackJack Citrus Infusions.
Mary Sue Wood, the owner of BlackJack, makes her own simple syrups, using local flavors and flavors from Mexico to make her lemonade pop.
Among their selection of drinks you will find lemonade with prickly pear, jalapeño, mango and tamarind, which according to Wood you can combine with other flavors and combine to make more than 100 drink combinations.
“I learned how to use simple syrups as a sweetener from my grandmother,” said Wood. “That’s how she sweetened her iced tea.”
Also adds to Wood’s Southwest flair, the fact that the building she sells her lemonade from used to be a horse trailer.
“It belonged to my aunt,” said Wood. “She gave it to us. Black Jack was the name of her horse. “
Wood’s background is in community service. Prior to that, she was a florist and owned Mary’s Downtown Flower Market for about five years.
She launched BlackJack, first as a covered pop-up in 2019 because she felt it met a need.
Mary Sue Wood chills one of her special flavored lemonades from the two-horse trailer she converted for her BlackJack Citrus Infusion business.
Kelly Presnell / Arizona Daily Star
“I wanted to have a good quality drink in some of these places that wasn’t coffee,” she said.
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