The Daphne City Council is quietly moving forward in adopting changes to its Mardi Gras ordinance that no longer mentions MoonPies made outside of the U.S. as a prohibited throw during the Carnival parades.
A reveler tosses trinkets off a Mardi Gras float as a past Shadow Barons parade rolls through Daphne, Ala. The city of Daphne is looking to update its 19-year-old ordinance that regulates what kind of throws are allowed and prohibited during the parades. .More than 19 years ago, the Daphne City Council wrote up new rules prohibiting “foreign-made” MoonPies from being tossed by revelers off a Mardi Gras float.
Other changes to the ordinance addressing Mardi Gras throws prohibits anything weighing over 2 pounds from being tossed off a float. The city hosts three parades – Apollo’s Mystic Ladies, The Shadow Barons, and Loyal Order of the Fire Truck. Daphne first began hosting Mardi Gras parades in 2002. Daphne City Clerk Candace Antinarella said she initiated the cleanup of the Mardi Gras ordinance, and a few other unrelated city ordinances, to make them more “clear and up-to-date.”Order of Venus, Miracle On the Bay and Order of Many Faces parade during Mardi Gras on Monday, Feb. 21, 2022, in downtown Mobile, Ala.
Other incidences happened in Mobile, where reports of scissors and other dangerous throws were tossed off floats. “I think it make it clear and safer for our citizens,” LeJeune said. “Our organizations in Daphne do a great job in making the parades family friendly events and preach that it’s for the city.”