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

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They know they have you trapped, you paid to enter the festival.

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Those prices are ridiculous.


When Here to Serve went to Madison Florida after Hurricane Idalia last year, on our third day the sheriff came to ask us how long we were planning on staying. We said our trips are usually a week or so.

He said we needed to wind it up faster. That they had received complaints from a couple of local restaurants about us. The restaurants were mad that we were giving food away and taking money out of their pockets. Now keep in mind power was out everywhere that didnt have generators. And this area is probably one of the poorest in the entire state.

I laughed at him thinking he was joking. He was not. The next day a state health inspector came by and checked us out. We have never been checked anywhere (we have been in LA, AL FL) before. We passed all the checks, food temps were perfect, the only thing he could cite us for was not having a dumpster in a fenced area or on site restroom facilities. We were using the hosting churches dumpster and restrooms.

Its awful for people to take advantage of people. But I guess its not any different than Bryant Denny or Tiger stadium selling beers for $20