Sonya Thomas threepeats French Quarter Festival crawfish contest
update April 20 Super4everFun has a video of the entire contest and Houma Today has an article about Buddy “The Bricklayer” Prejean. (via comment)
update April 15 The WayWard Path has a blog entry and gallery and video. NOLADefender has an article.
3:33 The top 3:
1) Sonya Thomas 3.3 pounds in 10 minutes, third victory in a row
2) Crazy Legs Conti 2.8 pounds
3) Adrian Morgan 2.45
2:24 James Karst won the amateur contest and Travers Mackel, the 2011 amateur winner, was the runner-up.
2:14 pm The amateur contest is over.
2:04 pm The amateur contest has started.
BestOfNewOrleans.com has an interview with Adrian Morgan (via Rich Shea).
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Anonymous said
April 14, 2012 @ 3:40 pm
Wow. Congrats to Crazy Legs!
anonymous said
April 14, 2012 @ 3:56 pm
Crawfish is not a capacity contest which is why Crazy Legs seems to.always do so well
Hmm there said
April 15, 2012 @ 9:49 am
Sonya appears to look good against weaker competition. Lets see her do that well against Joey Pat or Bob. Not a chance
Hmm's Arse said
April 15, 2012 @ 4:11 pm
Shit! Any one of them could have attended, just like they can in acme oysters in June. Bob is heading south in everything! I’m not talking geography either!
Table Ender said
April 20, 2012 @ 11:18 am
I love it when the focus of the stories, particularly for local publications, are the local non-top-10 eaters. The top eaters usually get in the money, but sometimes it’s local attention that is the greatest reward. This guy seems like a good guy, and he did pretty good for his first time:
http://www.houmatoday.com/article/20120418/ARTICLES/120419518