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The annual Kumquat festival is a great money raising event for the Dade City Community. This tropical fruit is like a smaller version of an orange and a very sweet tasting fruit. Dade City competes directly with Tampa's Gasparilla
Pirate Parade, our Kumquat Festival boasts more than 250 booths lining Meridian Avenue between State Road 52 and Highway 301 and crowds estimated to be as large as 40,000. People come from all over to sample all manner of Kumquat foods from pies, smoothies, marmalade, cookies and ice cream to salsa. This festival is a down home feel good way of life and what Dade City likes to represent there daily life style.
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