Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival will proceed: (not from the Onion)

[IDemo]

Welcome to the official home of the Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival. Please join us for our 75th annual festival to be held Sept. 2 - 6, 2010, in picturesque downtown Morgan City, Louisiana. This is an event that will prove that oil and water really do mix. Deep in the heart of Cajun Country, every Labor Day Weekend, tens of thousands of people celebrate at Louisiana's oldest chartered harvest festival.

The festival has been honoring those who have worked tirelessly through rain and shine...and sometimes even hurricanes, to provide the area's economic lifeblood for over half a century. The festival also emphasizes the unique way in which these two seemingly different industries work hand-in-hand culturally and environmentally in this area of the "Cajun Coast." The event is free and has grown to become one of the country's premiere festivals. There's plenty of fun for "kids" of all ages and lots to see, hear, do and eat! The festival is truly a feast for ALL senses and according to Time Magazine, "...one of the best, most unusual, the most down-home, the most moving and the most fun the Country has to offer..."

The Louisiana Shrimp & Petroleum Festival, the state's oldest chartered harvest festival, garnered the award of 2009 Festival of the Year in Division III.

http://www.shrimp-petrofest.org/home.htm

[htuttle]

1. Perhaps they'll be importing the shrimp this year...

It must be hard to work at the Onion these days. Reality keeps out-doing them.

[ShamelessHussy]

2. it's already getting difficult to get shrimp

a friend of mine owns a chinese restaurant in new england and he can't get any now from his regular suppliers.

[htuttle]

6. My neighborhood grocery coop says that when their frozen stock is gone, there won't be more

[IDemo]

4. Onion to close doors, "how can we compete?"

[Individualist]

3. "an event that will prove that oil and water really do mix."

Jesus H. God on a pogo stick! What in the hell are those people thinking?

[IDemo]

5. It's an environmental catastrophe, AND a dipping sauce!

[izquierdista]

7. I'll have mine without the remOILade, thank you

[Feron]

8. Not very Oniony actually....

Oil rigs provide a habitat that benefits the fishermen. Unfortunately all it takes is one company's negligence to ruin the beneficial relationship.

The oil industry is also a major employer for the state.

I'm glad that they didn't cancel the festival because the area will need the money.

Anyway I didn't have any problems finding frozen shrimp at the grocery yesterday. The grocer's freezer was fully stocked. So there is still shrimp to be had in Louisiana at least for the time being.