organiser has slammed tasmania as a state full ` dregs , bogans and third-generation morons ' .
in a scathing article , long time restaurant critic and festival curator leo schofield , 79 , claimed living in tasmania was the unhappiest time of his life .
mr schofield said he was offered $ 300,000 for the 2014 festival which was a reduction from the $ 400,000 the government offered in the previous year .