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re: Gonzales Jambalaya Festival
Posted on 5/27/18 at 6:40 pm to tduecen
Posted on 5/27/18 at 6:40 pm to tduecen
Anybody else just feel like everyone over there is just going through the motions? Always mailing it in.
Also, why does everyone who makes jambalaya make it out to be a pain in the arse? Does anybody have fun making that crap?
Also, why does everyone who makes jambalaya make it out to be a pain in the arse? Does anybody have fun making that crap?
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Posted on 5/27/18 at 6:58 pm to fightin tigers
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Wait....what?
I’m serious. We were looking all over for jambalaya to eat - I was expecting to be able to try different versions. Nope, they were selling hot dogs and other fair foods, but no jambalaya. We asked and were told, “No, only the competitors and the judges eat the jambalaya. We don’t sell it.” I left wondering “WTF kinda festival is this??”
This was the same day that the female politician hit the guy as she was leaving and killed him
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 10:14 pm
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:20 pm to coonasswhodat
Folks, Gonzales festival competition jambalaya is NOT MEANT TO BE A TASTY DISH FOR THE PUBLIC!!! Yes, they sell it only because they have so much of it. Also, they do not use sausage and cooks leave the bone in the chicken because judges don't even eat the chicken.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:26 pm to the paradigm
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This was the same day that the female politician hit the guy as she was leaving and killed him
Pretty sure that was not the jambalaya fest , think it was the boucheree
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:27 pm to LSUsmartass
Having a festival to cook something that is “not meant to be a tasty dish” is asinine.
Have a rice cooking contest and call it a rice cooking contest.
Have a rice cooking contest and call it a rice cooking contest.
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:30 pm to LSUsmartass
That is not a good sales pitch. Though I do not doubt the truth of your statement at all. 
Posted on 5/27/18 at 7:48 pm to Tigerpaw123
Wow, you are correct... either my memory is bad, I'm confused, or I'm a plain dumbass. Probably the latter.
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Posted on 5/28/18 at 1:51 pm to tduecen
Best Jambalaya I have ever tasted was made by a guy from Vacherie. Beats all the Gonzales cooks, though Wally's offerings used to be the BOMB!
Posted on 5/28/18 at 2:00 pm to LSUsmartass
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Folks, Gonzales festival competition jambalaya is NOT MEANT TO BE A TASTY DISH FOR THE PUBLIC!!!
This is ridiculous. I've never been to a food festival where the festival is for the cooks and not for the public. It's borderline insane.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:16 pm to dualed
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This is ridiculous. I've never been to a food festival where the festival is for the cooks and not for the public. It's borderline insane.
Every bit as insane as the people going to other fun events or “contests” and complaining - calling them illegitimate - because they aren’t “governed” like the End-All-Be-All World Famous Rice Cooking Festival held in Ascension Parish.
I have family that love it. Compete. It’s laughable. The stuff they compete with is not what we eat when cooking jam for family. The whole thing is laughable to me.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 3:31 pm to bossflossjr
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Having a festival to cook something that is “not meant to be a tasty dish” is asinine.
Have a rice cooking contest and call it a rice cooking contest.
Next year, I kinda want to bring a bunch of people who REALLY know how to cook rice and win the cooking contests at the International Rice Festival (most of whom grew up in a rice field and eat rice every day), and school the Jambalaya festival's rice cooking contest. Then they're going to make jambalaya for real and embarrass them again.
This festival sounds like a joke.
This post was edited on 5/28/18 at 3:32 pm
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:07 pm to TigerstuckinMS
To win the JFA contest you have to cook 3 jambalayas over 2/3 days with the amount of rice increasing each time. 10lbs in the prelims, 15lbs in the semifinals and 20lbs in the finals. All are cooked over open fire and semifinals and finals are cooked back to back on Sunday.
All are invited to compete. The festival is every Memorial Day weekend.
See you next year.
All are invited to compete. The festival is every Memorial Day weekend.
See you next year.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:14 pm to bossflossjr
Jesus, for the last time the guy was asking for ways to grow it...some of us jambalaya competition cooks gave him advice to attract us to it. He can take it or leave it. I'll spend my $400 elsewhere
Posted on 5/28/18 at 4:38 pm to fightin tigers
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Could you imagine the bitchfest and boycotting that would happen if they tried to select one sausage provider.
Anything blessed by the taint of a native Gonzalesian should suffice.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 9:16 pm to TigerstuckinMS
quote:Do your rice people even cook jambalaya? My mom's family is from rice country (Welsh) and my grandfather was an integral part of the rice industry. But while my family cooked lots of rice, I don't remember a single mention of jambalaya from them. Nobody seemed to cook jambalaya out there.They could make a mean dirty rice, though.
Next year, I kinda want to bring a bunch of people who REALLY know how to cook rice and win the cooking contests at the International Rice Festival (most of whom grew up in a rice field and eat rice every day), and school the Jambalaya festival's rice cooking contest. Then they're going to make jambalaya for real and embarrass them again.
Posted on 5/28/18 at 9:32 pm to Stadium Rat
My dad is a rice farmer and I hardly ever remember eating jambalaya growing up. No idea why. We had rice at pretty much every meal. My dad hasn't made a jambalaya (to my knowledge) in my adult life. I'd assume my family is unusual in that respect.
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