Events
PoBoy Festival
Sunday, November 23 | Noon-6 p.m.
Oak Street
Hosted by the Oak Street Association, the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival was founded as a celebration of the storied sandwich and the role it has played in New Orleans’ culinary culture.
“There’s a whole generation of young people out there who have grown up thinking Jared is the expert when it comes to making sandwiches” said Brad Wilkins, President of the Oak Street Main St. Association “But a po-boy is more than just a sandwich, it’s a part of our collective past.”
The collective past of which he speaks is the historic streetcar driver strike that crippled New Orleans in 1929.
History has it that a local shop owner who was formerly a streetcar driver began feeding the striking the workers for free. When a hungry worker would come in off of the picket line the call would go out: “here comes another poor boy!”
From those humble beginnings spring the many varieties of the po-boy sandwich; a New Orleans original of which there is no sub-stitute!
Proceeds from the New Orleans Po-Boy Preservation Festival will go towards the Oak Street Association’s work to promote, preserve, and revitalize Carrollton’s historic Oak Street neighborhood and commercial corridor.
For more information, visit: www.poboyfestival.com