Taste of Marietta.. Your opinions?
May 1st, 2006 | By mpi2 | Category: Site FeaturesWhat was done well? Good food? Bad food? You tell us! We will be posting our reviews in the next day or so - the good, the bad and the ugly - ….well, ok - there wasn’t much ugly per se but just “the good, the bad” didn’t sound right by itself….
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My wife and I went to the 2000 Taste of Marietta when we first moved to the downtown Marietta area.
We were enjoying our day and had discovered a new restaurant or two when suddenly what appeared to be a Klan march showed up, waving rebel flags all over the place.
We promptly departed and have never returned and have never invited friends or relatives to any subsequent Taste of Marietta.
We were shocked that such a thing would still go on in an area that was attempting to present itself as cosmopolitan. How embarrassing.
more than likely you saw the “Flaggers”. This is a group of men (I use this term loosely) that disagree with the changing of the Georgia flag. At the time I think Chuck Clay was in office and he voted for the change. The governor (Roy Barnes) is also a Cobb native. They were here to make their insignificant viced heard and bother innocent people like you.
Give the Square another chance.
Loved Taste but did get a bad taste with the parade. We had visitors from Minnesota with us and one from Japan. Was a bit difficult explaining to our Japanese visitor what the parade was all about. We do live in a free country and they do have the right to walk and voice their opinion, but how sad it stirs up all the bad memories of past sins in our nation. A time to redeem that is available this Thursday with an event called Prayer on the Square at 7 p.m.- a gathering of churches to worship God and pray for our city and nation.
Our family enjoys Taste of Marietta, but it has begun to feel repetitive with more chain or large restaurants being represented than smaller, local tastes. I believe organizers should do more to promote the event with our small, local owners. Also, I witnessed representatives of the company hired to run the event being very rude to visitors/seniors who had set up chairs from a large unused stack next to the stage for the morning performance. Apparently these were for the evening performance only.
Part of the problem with our city and nation is the continued narrow view of our religious residents who believe in praying only for our own “local” blessings, rather than blessings on the world. God could use people spending more time on the feet helping others, than on their knees helping themselves.