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

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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.

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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.