Now there are various fairs/festivals-city, craft , renaissance, church, school to go to. What were/are your favorite

[debm55]

fair/festivals "foods". Mine was a funnel cake, powered sugar and strawberries on top. What about you?

[Haggard Celine]

1. I liked the sausage in a bun with sauteed onions and green peppers over the top.

I think they were Polish sausages. I make them at home sometimes, but they're rarely as good as they were back then at the fair.

[debm55]

2. Thank you, Haggard Celine. You could watch the guy sauting the onions and peppers and your mouth would water cause you

knew what was coming. The sausage and roll with the onions and peppers right off of the grill. Heaven

[Haggard Celine]

3. I grew up in a neighboring county.

Over there several organizations have booths at the fair where they make and sell gumbo to raise money. I used to get a bowl from each one to see which was the best. To me, that was the best part of going to the fair.

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much Haggard Celine, That sounds great, The Gumbo Contest. Did you ever find a winner?

[Haggard Celine]

16. They were all good.

It's hard to say who was the best. I'll have to go back there this year and try them all again. It'll be my own little contest.

[get the red out]

5. Fried Apple Pie

At the Kentucky Apple Festival in Paintsville, KY. They are like turn-overs, but fried. They were always sold by the "Thelma Volunteer Fire Department" food stand. There were many stands for charities and the people cooking knew what they were doing!

[debm55]

6. Thank you very much , get the red out. I don't think I ever had one, but it sounds great.

[catbyte]

7. Pow-wows and the best were the fry bread and the fry bread strawberry shortcake

[debm55]

8. Thank you very much ,catbyte. I love fry bread. I never had as a strawberry shortcake . It sounds delicious.

[electric_blue68]

17. Oh, fry bread! 😄🩷 First had it out in my South West travels. Then at the....

occasional Pow Wow I'd get to. Yum!

[surrealAmerican]

9. As a kid, I loved those elaborately molded "barley sugar" lollypops.

They had a very specific flavor apart from the added flavoring.

[debm55]

10. Thank you very much surrealAmerican. It sounds great.

[KitFox]

11. Elephant Ears. Nothing like an enormous piece of fried dough. I couldn't pass up the giant mound of curly

fries either. As if I wasn’t already full, I had to get a marionberry sundae. Still love eating my way through the Oregon State Fair.

[debm55]

12. Thank you very much KitFox, The foods sound great.

[debm55]

13. No candied apples???? HAHAHHAHAHAHA

[justaprogressive]

14. Maple Cotton Candy!!!

[debm55]

15. Wow I never heard of Maple Cotton Candy. That sounds great Thank you very much for sharing, justaprogressive.

[LogDog75]

18. County fair

I was about 10 years old when my father took me, my sister, and brother to the Mid-South Fair in Memphis. About three years later, when we lived near Bridgeport, Ct., my mother took us my sister and me to the New York World's Fair in 1964. First time I ever rode on a train.

[debm55]

23. Thank you LogDog75, That sounds like a great experience

[electric_blue68]

19. Italian sweet sausage on a bun with onions and peppers...

where I first ate it.

This was at the NYC 9th Ave Food Festival! About 18 blocks of food vendors, often outside food offerings from the restaurants there, too. And other vendors.

For dessert - Zeppolis!
Fried dough balls with, or w/o powdered sugar on them! 😄

Haven't been since covid. 😌 Had been going for almost 45 yrs?! Since my early twenties.

There was a pie company some years later that eventually got too big, and recipes changed or something...

But back then they had a apple, walnut, something (sour cream?) pie. Ohhh, yum. As a Chocoholic your non chocolate stuff had to be really good to impress me! 😄

[debm55]

28. Thank you very much for your delicious foods. Sausage ranks up there. Yum. I have had apple and custard pie. Terrific.

Thank you for your selections. electric_blue68

[sestina]

20. Deep fried veggies at the county fair

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are always a favorite treat.
We also like our local art fair that has a variety of food choices and an event called Chalk the Block, where artists of all talent levels compete for the best chalk art on the streets of St. Joe, Michigan. There are no food vendors there, only restaurants.

[debm55]

26. That sounds very interesting.thank you for sharing sestina.

[Figarosmom]

21. Art fairs

And crafts. I like to see what other people are doing.

Always something unique and creative. And I like getting things for my front garden.

[electric_blue68]

22. I love craft fairs! There was (may be back) a very well known crafts fair 2x year at Lincoln Center. I went to for...

decades.
Not since covid.
If it's back....maybe sort of safe bc out in the light and heat. I'd wear a mask.

[debm55]

24. Thank you very much, electric_blue68 for sharing with us.

[debm55]

25. Thank you very much for sharing, Figarosmom. for sharing with us.

[debm55]

29. thank you Figarosmom. I used to love them. I also made sassy teddy bears that looked like that they came out of

New Orleans--lace dresses, hats . gems. Sold alot ot them. Moved on to another craft.

[BOSSHOG]

27. Creole Tomato Festival - New Orleans

Pick a week. Any week. There is a festival in New Orleans

[debm55]

30. Thank you BOOSHOG. that sounds wounderful. A Creole Tomato Festival.

[OldBaldy1701E]

31. I go to the Renaissance Festival each year.

No matter where I am living.

I like to get a turkey leg. I like to get haggis.

I love the ciders.

[debm55]

32. OldBaldy1701E. When we go , Rich orders that giant turkey leg. not haggis though. The cider are wonderful Thank you for

sharing about the Renaissance Festivals. Have been to one since covid.

[OldBaldy1701E]

33. Always a Ren Fair Dude!

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(Me and the hubby with a certain Spanish knight-errant.)

[debm55]

34. Wow Thank you very much, OldBaldy1701E. Thank you so much for sharing.