Most people associate parades in New Orleans with Mardi Gras. However, St. Patrick's Day also provides revelers with an opportunity to celebrate. At this parade, people can kiss men for carnations, yell for beads and, most importantly, gather all the necessary ingredients to make an Irish Stew.
This year, we had the pleasure of attending our first St. Patrick's Day parade, along with the one and only Frankie Ellis (a friend from UT). At first, the parade day seemed doomed, as the weather turned from cloudy to misty to rainy. We found cover under a restaurant awning along with about 50 of our new friends. The parade started late (as is customary here in the Big Easy). Just as we were about to give up hope, the parade reached us! To our dismay, however, there were very few floats. The majority of the participants at the beginning of parade were part of the Irish Channel Marching Club. (Translation: old drunk men walking around with fake carnations waiting to give them away to any young lady willing to kiss them for it). Needless to say, Frankie and I were not impressed. Disappointed and somewhat disgusted, we convinced Matt to take us home. On the way back to the car, however, we hit the jackpot. We found a perfect spot on the corner just in time to catch most of the floats. At this point, we decided to go for it - to start gathering the ingredients for Irish stew. We yelled "Cabbage! We want cabbage!" for a good half an hour. As you'll see in the video, our request for cabbage was granted. We also caught some other goodies, and bought the rest of the ingredients for a fantastic creation.
Sorry this is so late in getting posted, please enjoy a Happy Belated St. Patrick's Day! We hope you enjoy watching this as much as we did making it.
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