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re: One vendor's food offerings at the Strawberry Festival in Ponchatoula

Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:06 pm to
Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
36368 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:06 pm to
I thought this was the Strawberry Festival none of that shite has strawberries
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 12:11 pm
Posted by STigers
Gulf Coast
Member since Nov 2022
2286 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:06 pm to
quote:

is strawberry festival a family thing or is it trashy?

It’s a mix.

Just like everything

Not everyone going is trashy!!





Posted by kcpizzle
Member since Mar 2022
590 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:13 pm to
frick that vendor....I hope all their food rots.
Posted by Dixie2023
Member since Mar 2023
2637 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:14 pm to
2 crawfish beignets and Mac n cheese w/crawfish was $15 for the combo. A lot of food. Beats a $12 corn dog.
Posted by Epaminondas
The Boot
Member since Jul 2020
4872 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:16 pm to
Part of the problem is that it's those meth head carny food booths that travel from place to place serving generic trash.

Ideally, they would select carefully vetted restaurants, caterers, etc. like Lafayette's Festival International or French Quarter Fest does. But the Strawberry Festival is too big of an event in too small of a place.
This post was edited on 4/13/24 at 4:54 pm
Posted by Higgysmalls
Ft Lauderdale
Member since Jun 2016
6799 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:18 pm to
Those are carnival vendors from out of state. They are not local. All the local non profit is inside gates around square
Posted by LegendInMyMind
Member since Apr 2019
59477 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:18 pm to
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Fairs and festivals aren’t worth attending anymore. Used to be some decent stuff and good cost. Now it’s rows of the same stuff and prices I’d spend at the store.

This is the biggest complaint. I've gone to the same festival/event for the past six years now, excluding 2020, and I've watched it turn into 90% of the vendors selling the same things. It is called "Vintage Market Days" and has events all over, twice a year, in Spring and Fall (leading into the holidays). When it first started there was a wide variety of truly vintage and antique stuff mixed in with vintage "style" stuff, think Hobby Lobby import shite. It also had craft food vendors like high end cheese and value added products. Every event got a little less of legit old stuff and a little more of the import business. The import vendors started buying more floor space and piling more shite up. I talked to a husband and wife I know who are antique/vintage dealers who traveled with the event. They said that after Covid their booth space rental went up five times what it was earlier on. They couldn't afford to set up anymore, not every other weekend in a different town.

The organizers ran off unique vendors and now all it is is overpriced import Hobby Lobby shite, with nothing different ,twice a year. The turnout has noticeably started to suffer over the past two years, especially.
Posted by LRB1967
Tennessee
Member since Dec 2020
18352 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:22 pm to
You can always pack a lunch. It would be a lot cheaper than feeding a family at those prices.
Posted by biglego
Ask your mom where I been
Member since Nov 2007
78249 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:22 pm to
Strawberry Fest sounds so fun
Posted by chili pup
Member since Sep 2011
3697 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:23 pm to
Will be a bitch having to pack up all that food and taking it back home.
Posted by diat150
Louisiana
Member since Jun 2005
44861 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:30 pm to
quote:

Maybe the vendor should find another source of income. Paying those prices for those items is insane.



so you dont want any vendors at the festival?
Posted by greenbean
USAF Retired - 31 years
Member since Feb 2019
5165 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:35 pm to
I'd expect corndogs to sell out in a few minutes in Ponchatoula.
Posted by ShoeBang
Member since May 2012
20320 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:39 pm to
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so you dont want any vendors at the festival?


At those prices there might as well be none anyway for me. Don’t care that I could afford it either, I wouldn’t spend the money.
Posted by REG861
Ocelot, Iowa
Member since Oct 2011
36937 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:42 pm to
What a fricking disgrace.
Posted by kengel2
Team Gun
Member since Mar 2004
31837 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:45 pm to
quote:

Are we at a movie theater, sporting event or Disney World?


It's a festival, so ya.

There's been pictures posted of other vendors with cheaper prices and you didn't post those, why not?
Posted by SixthAndBarone
Member since Jan 2019
9021 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:47 pm to
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Are we at a movie theater, sporting event or Disney World?


No, dumbass, you’re at a fair, carnival, or festival. Prices seem right.
Posted by PhifeDogg
Stankonia
Member since Mar 2006
6119 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:49 pm to
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They know they have you trapped, you paid to enter the festival.
Strawberry Fest is free admission..

Posted by aTmTexas Dillo
East Texas Lake
Member since Sep 2018
17658 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:51 pm to
Price what the market will bear.
Posted by High C
viewing the fall....
Member since Nov 2012
55620 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 12:58 pm to
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No, dumbass, you’re at a fair, carnival, or festival. Prices seem right.


Prices seem right? Acceptance of anal rape by food vendors is not a good look.
Posted by PeteRose
Hall of Fame
Member since Aug 2014
17154 posts
Posted on 4/13/24 at 1:06 pm to
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Price what the market will bear.


It’s not the price of the market. They are over charging a convenient fee for Americans who like to eat. If 1 out of 10 people willing to pay $25 for a turkey leg, the market price of the turkey leg is not $25. You just have one sucker overpaying. If the price of gas is $3 a gallon and you find one guy willing to pay for $10, is that the market price? Is his stupidity a reflection of all buyers in that market?
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