50th St Anthonys feast
The Feast in Oceanside NY is here and it looks like its going to be a good year for the Church. The feast is the biggest fundraiser for the parish each year. Speaking with one of the workers this evening he told me the rides make up 75% of the revenue for the Church and they were considering what another parish, with a big feast, is doing by having vendors pay rent to sell their food at the feast.
Now most feasts have volunteers prepare all the food that gets sold. It takes weeks and months in the planning Im sure. I said to him that its tradition… been going on this way for years. But if you think about it, it makes sence. Vendors would pull up, set up, collect their own money and leave (like the rides). If the feast has bad weather they aren’t stuck with hundreds of pounds of unsold zeppolis, meatballs, sausage and peppers cannoli’s etc. It wouldnt take 100s of volunteers to prep the food and serve it.
I had the meatballs sausage and peppers and eggplant (no bread) all were awesome. Hopefully the choose good vendors
