[0:04] this is Flores ville home to about six
and a half thousand it's held an annual
[0:10] festival since the 1930s war they go all
out celebrating an important part of
[0:15] Texas agriculture in history
welcome to the Floresville peanut
[0:21] festival every second weekend in October
Floresville puts on this festival and
[0:26] it's everything you'd expect from
small-town Texas there's a parade
[0:29] there's a carnival there's games for the
kids and of course there's food
[0:35] when we arrived the festivities were
just about to begin kicking off with the
[0:40] grand parade featuring the local high
school band some fantastic floats and of
[0:45] course the royal family whose gowns are
designed by local seamstresses so you
[0:49] love your community can you tell our
viewers why they need to come out here
[0:52] to Flores well because it's family
oriented parade this would just food the
[0:57] carnival ride the parade is my favorite
part and also the food and yeah it's
[1:03] just a great family-oriented event that
a lot of people could enjoy
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with the parade wrapping up and hoping
[1:26] to learn more I went in search of
someone to fill us in on all things
[1:30] Floresville and the peanut festival I
think it's special because it happens we
[1:35] celebrate the history of the peanut crop
here in Wilson County it was a big big
[1:39] crop back in the day but we still like
to celebrate the heritage and everything
[1:43] that for Cole was founded on well it's a
way to get away from the bit that had
[1:46] hustle and bustle as they say of a big
city to come on in everybody is so
[1:50] friendly we welcome everybody in this is
like a reunion of sorts for the
[1:56] community and we as a community love it
we absolutely love it this is the focal
[2:02] point of the year especially in downtown
where we can show up a courthouse we can
[2:07] show off the peanut we can show up our
downtown and we just appreciate
[2:11] everybody coming out
[2:19] after a nice chat I was eager to head
out and experience some more of what the
[2:23] festival had to offer
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[2:33] why I come to festivals it was time for
the true star of the festival to shine
[2:38] and as I very quickly learned there's no
wrong way to eat a peanut except with
[2:43] the shell on obviously the peanut
brittle is first class around here and
[2:47] that's something everyone has to have we
also have some peanut ice between
[2:51] umberto ice cream
so you can't come to the peanut festival
[2:55] without trying something with peanuts so
here we go
[2:58] we got some peanut brittle
[3:03] that is delicious there you go vanilla
peanut brittle ice cream whoa let's eat
[3:10] Oh looks delicious vanilla peanut
brittle ice cream all right we're coming
[3:16] for you blue bow
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[3:21] this is really good thank you for
Isabelle peanut festival
[3:30] so when you boil it peanut it's gonna
taste more like a bean okay do you just
[3:37] okay
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[3:41] oh wow yeah I do not know being that we
are in festival I couldn't pass up the
[3:49] opportunity to play the carnival game
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[3:54] when one lands onto a bottle with any
prizes life
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[Applause]
[4:03] so I get a prize if I miss all of them
[4:08] all right here in Texas everyone loves a
good Western shootout and that's what's
[4:13] about to happen right now so let's go
check it out
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[4:32] next up I caught a performance by comedy
hypnotist Rob Zeke whose act left
[4:38] festival goers speechless oh you guys
are gonna be open to the count of three
[4:41] one two three you can try to pull it but
you cannot get that hand off there one
[4:44] two three you're not gonna fall
leg come up with my legs don't move your
[4:52] leg try to move this hand is it going
hello
[4:59] pull it off there you go watch this
leave all suggestions gone your name is
[5:08] Ariel back to the room feeling fantastic
you know everything you didn't show no
[5:11] longer feeling light ready to go back
today with you crew wherever you go and
[5:14] join the rest of peanut festival one two
three eyes'll thank you thank y'all for
[5:22] coming out
after returning to my normal state it
[5:26] was time to check out the live music
scene and lucky for us we managed to
[5:30] grab one of the music acts and local
artists for a quick one on one all right
[5:35] Skylar Hamilton yes ma'am you were born
and raised here in Florida or was your
[5:39] true floors villian I am so we're at the
74th peanut festival
[5:43] you're gonna play at night right yeah
we're actually playing in about an hour
[5:47] what's it like playing in your hometown
it's a great feeling it's a great
[5:50] feeling playing for all your ex
classmates and all your friends that you
[5:54] grew up with it's a small town it's
gotten a lot bigger than since I've been
[5:58] here which is about 11 years ago and
it's getting bigger and better love this
[6:04] place
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[6:14] all right that just about does it for me
here at the Flores Ville peanut festival
[6:17] thank you so much this new Floresville
for inviting me out here and you know
[6:21] what I couldn't come to the festival and
not leave with my peanuts then well of
[6:24] course the fun okay so make sure to put
this on your calendar for next year
[6:28] right now I'm gonna try to go ahead and
eat this start planning for next year's
[6:35] celebration by visiting Floresville
peanut festival org
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