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Gonzales Jambalaya Festival
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:35 pm
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:35 pm
Why are the ingredients so plain? Why won't they allow creativity into this? Why make everyone use the same damn stuff, seems like a lot of it taste the exact same because of that.
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Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:39 pm to tduecen
The ingredients are in the 5gal water buckets.
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:39 pm to tduecen
Posted on 5/26/18 at 10:52 pm to fightin tigers
Yeah and every batch taste similar imo unless they burned the rice/meat or undercooked it
Posted on 5/27/18 at 6:37 am to tduecen
Its the "world championship of chicken rice".....rules and regulations are imperative....
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:24 am to tduecen
This topic has quite a bit of controversy, but the reason is the goal of the contest is to see who can cook a classic Gonzales style jambalaya consistently, it is not a place to showcase individual variances The original organizers wanted to maintain the dish that they were celebrating. The judging is very specific, it is about the rice. People can bitch all they want to but it works and they draw a great crowd every year. When cooking in it you know exactly what the judges are looking for (if you agree with it or not)) and know that you are not going to beat by some crap like they served at the White House. , From the mouth of one of the JFA chair’s, you don’t like our rules...go start your own festival and do what you want
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:56 am to Tigerpaw123
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From the mouth of one of the JFA chair’s, you don’t like our rules...go start your own festival and do what you want
Amen, everyone knows the rules going in. There are tons of jam cook offs. This one may not be for everyone.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 8:23 am to tduecen
We went yesterday and the chicken jamb was dry as hell in the 2 dinners we got. The pork jambalaya dinner was a better.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 8:36 am to Tigerpaw123
Somebody has been talking to Wally. 
It’s a rice cooking contest. With real judges. There’s plenty of other contests where ingredients aren’t limited and the judges are all over the map
It’s a rice cooking contest. With real judges. There’s plenty of other contests where ingredients aren’t limited and the judges are all over the map
Posted on 5/27/18 at 10:26 am to Icansee4miles
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With real judges
I'll never forget Vernon Roger being pie-yowed on stage judging the finals.
Probably what led to him being found in Lamendola apartments wearing nothing but a diaper.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 10:38 am to tduecen
I had my fiancée pick up jambalaya from there yesterday for the first time ever. Tried the pork and then the chicken. Pork was OK, but the chicken was fricking terrible.
If someone who has never had jamb is brought to that festival to try it for the first time that's an absolute tragedy. I could make a better tasting jamb blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back.
If someone who has never had jamb is brought to that festival to try it for the first time that's an absolute tragedy. I could make a better tasting jamb blindfolded with one hand tied behind my back.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 11:16 am to tduecen
The reason is to make it more difficult to execute. By having such a plain set of ingredients, it makes skill the only variable between cooking teams rather than creativity or quality of ingredients.
I would never make a chicken on the bone jambalaya for myself, but I get why they do it that way for the fest.
I would never make a chicken on the bone jambalaya for myself, but I get why they do it that way for the fest.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 12:06 pm to tduecen
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Gonzales Jambalaya Festival
Would not eat.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 12:12 pm to wickowick
Do they not even allow sausage in the jambs at this fest?
Posted on 5/27/18 at 12:18 pm to tduecen
I went one year and it was terrible. It was more of a cook-off than a festival. They weren’t even selling jambalaya or giving out samples.
This post was edited on 5/27/18 at 6:59 pm
Posted on 5/27/18 at 1:54 pm to dualed
You have 1 year to prepare. The cooks meeting is always 2 Mondays before the festival. The festival is always on Memorial Day weekend.
See you next year.
See you next year.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 2:02 pm to urinetrouble
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Do they not even allow sausage in the jambs at this fest?
Could you imagine the bitchfest and boycotting that would happen if they tried to select one sausage provider.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 2:03 pm to the paradigm
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They weren’t even selling jambalaya or giving out samples.
Wait....what?
Posted on 5/27/18 at 3:28 pm to urinetrouble
There was sausage in the pork jambalaya. This was not any sausage in the competition jambalaya. The competition stuff had chicken (bone in breast) only.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 6:33 pm to tduecen
I ate some of the “competition” jambalaya a few minutes ago. Not very tasty.
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