Spearheaded by Elberta's Volunteer Fire Department since 1978, festival proceeds are used for improving not only the fire department but the town as well. There will also be polka, country, and German music. The Bellview Stumpfiddle Band will perform with the North End Stompers and other cloggers. Other scrumptious foods will include German-style filled cabbage, potato salad, goulash, red beans and rice, hamburgers, hot dogs, BBQ sandwiches, ice cream, popcorn, peanuts, and homemade baked goods. Of course, there will also be a Bier Garten featuring a large selection of imported and domestic beers. There will also be carnival rides and a full-scale Midway. It is also the main revenue source for the areas volunteer fire department.įestival fans can enjoy Elberta's famous German sausage and sauerkraut, plus continuous entertainment for adults and children, and 250 arts & crafts booths. A 40-year tradition, the festival is a major regional event that attracts a cross-section of the community in what has become a reunion type atmosphere. 98, the event attracts up to 20,000 revelers, according to organizers. Held in Elberta Town Park, just north of the towns only stoplight on Hwy. “We have an idea of where we’d like it to go and we’d love to just make talking sausage movies for the rest of our lives.The Elberta Sausage Festival makes its semi-annual return to that South Baldwin hamlet. “It’s the first time we’ve ended a movie with the intention of making another one,” he said. It’s an intriguing complement to, say, “Zootopia,” which deals heavily in zeitgeist matters with lovable talking animals and is already considered the frontrunner to win the Oscar.Įither way, the goal for Rogen and company is to keep expanding this zany world. But while there is probably no hope for an animated feature Oscar nomination - the mind reels at the thought of it screening for octogenarians at the Academy’s esteemed Samuel Goldwyn Theater - Sony should give it a serious shove anyway, just to be a disrupter in the race. In any case, “Sausage Party” is one of the best films of the year for its sheer audacity and deft handling of hot button subject matter. He also, according to Rogen, tried to explain the premise to “Birdman” and “The Revenant” director Alejandro G. He became a bit of an ambassador, convincing others - like Salma Hayek - to be a part of it. Norton was a huge champion for the film as soon as Goldberg pitched it to him. “And that kind of led us down the path of beliefs and how people face the idea that you expire in different ways, and they have different ideas to support those ideas.” “If food doesn’t think it gets eaten, what does it think,” Rogen recalled brainstorming. A sausage, Frank (Seth Rogen), learns the awful truth - that the gods eat food and it’s horrific - and attempts to reveal his findings. The crux of the narrative centers on the notion of “The Great Beyond,” a heaven-like utopia that various anthropomorphic items in a supermarket believe they will be carted off to once “chosen” by “gods” (customers). “We were like, ‘Someone is going to make an R-rated Pixar movie one day and I’m going to be pissed if we’re not the guys to do it.” “The day after we knew we wanted to make a movie about food, we decided food had to f- each other,” Rogen said. Rogen and company set out to follow the structure and tropes of those films with a story about talking food, but of course things immediately went in a trademark vulgar direction from there. The film, co-written by Evan Goldberg and Jonah Hill and directed by Greg Tiernan (“Thomas and Friends”) and Conrad Vernon (“Shrek 2”), was born out of a love of animated movies, particularly the Pixar brand. There is nothing like “Sausage Party,” which first screened as a work in progress at the South by Southwest film festival in March. That conundrum for the industry’s trade association is as good a way as any into discussing the film, which dabbles in religious and socio-political overtones while also featuring an actual douche bag sexually assault a juice box. “They crossed into this unprecedented area of, ‘Is a d-? If it’s a pita bread’s ball sack, is it a ball sack?'” 12, at a post-sausage Q&A session Thursday night. SAN DIEGO - “I think the MPAA didn’t know how to handle food,” Seth Rogen said of his raunchy animated comedy “ Sausage Party,” releasing Aug.
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