Want some gum?
Nuts! Missed it again.
sniff sniff.. not yet .. but the winds should be wafting the odor this direction soon.
Boiled cabbage.
I don’t go any more because there are just too many folks. When I used to go, this was one of THE BEST food festivals ever
Stinkiest food fair because neo-pagan hippies from the Bay who forgo deodorant, bathing, laundry detergent, etc. will be serving the cuisine, no?
Want some gum?
IMO garlic smells great! (this coming from someone who just ordered a lb. of limburger :)
Keep your ears pealed for a song called “Garlic Bread” by Gary & Larry.
It’s an instrumental from the late 1950s or early 1960s, like Tequila. Except instead of shouting the song title, a man just lets out a “breath” of garlic mouth and the music sounds more like Barry Gordy’s Money...
Hear a sample of the mp3 on Amazon
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_gw?url=search-alias%3Ddigital-music&field-keywords=garlic+bread
They should hold this at Purdue University, good ol’ P.U.!
Gilroy, CA - the only city in the world where you can marinate a steak by holding it out your car window.
I’m just up the road in San Jose, but I’m skipping town for the weekend.
We went the first year we lived in the Bay Area, back in about 2001, because everyone told us that you have to go at least once. I will echo those who said that the crowds are just WAY too huge. We were stuck in a traffic jam on southbound 101 for at least an hour, creeping into a parking lot. Then, we had to wait in line for one of the numerous tour busses that they were using as shuttles from the parking lot to the actual festival itself.
The festival was fun, but nothing too special. A typical small town festival with food booths, arts and crafts booths, some rides, and such, all with a garlic theme. It was just much LARGER than most small town festivals. More of everything. Including people. We had garlic ice cream for the first and last time (basicly seemed to be vanilla ice cream with garlic juice poured in as an extra ingredient while they were making it - yuck!!).
All in all, it was fun, but for the reasons stated above, once was enough.
We have not yet been to the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay that someone mentioned above. I suppose we will have to try that some year. But getting into Half Moon Bay is a LOT more crowded than getting into Gilroy because there are basicly only two ways into town. So, we may wait a few MORE years before we attempt that one!!
Gilroy used to be a major garlic growing area. Now it all come from China including much of the garlic at this festival