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Saturday, May 03, 2008
| Reported by Cary Chow, WALA Photojournalist: Josh Litton PENSACOLA, Fla. -- PENSACOLA, Fla. - The City of Five Flags is celebrating its Cajun influence in one of the best ways it knows how - eating bugs! Mud bugs that is. The 24th Annual Pensacola Crawfish Festival started Friday. We can call it mud bugging - the sport of eating crawfish. At the 24th Annual Pensacola Crawfish Festival, there were plenty of mudbug lover ready to eat more than 16-thousand pounds of the tiny crustacean. The restaurant Mudbug Mike's provides more than 8-tons of boiled crawfish for the festival. The owner, Mike Hefner, said, "By Sunday afternoon, it'll all be gone." In addition to crawfish, there's other Cajun food available at the festival, everything from po'boys to fried gator tails. There is also live music and crawfish eating contests. The festival hours are Saturday, May 3, 10:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. Sunday, May 4, 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m. It's located at Bartram Park on Bayfront Parkway in Downtown Pensacola. |
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