comment: >
  
  Did you really write this comment?  I dont see the word "comment" anywhere
context: Didn’t people actively travel to New Orleans to celebrate this holiday? Since when was this not nationally known?? >
  
  My dad joined the Red Cross and went to assist in relief efforts after Katrina specifically to celebrate it >
  
  thats seems like a lotta work just to party >
  
  As a kid in the 90s, mardi gras was definitely already celebrated nationally.  
  It sounds like you’re wearing some huge “good ol’ days” blinders. >
  
  What did I say that is "good old days"?