Orange Int'l Street Fair - 8/29-8/31
 

http://orangestreetfair.org/index.php

I've enjoyed this the last few times I've gone. The usually have some decent entertainment too (for example, The American Wake will be playing again this year).

Anyone interested in making it a swanking?

Snuck up this year, didn't it?

We'll probably be going on Friday night. Wedding festivities for a good friend will keep us from stuffing ourselves (well, stuffing ourselves at the Orange circle) the other days.

We're thinking about it. We love free entertainment! ;)

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You can park at the library or at the civic center (both one short block east of the plaza) for $10. Steep, yes, but every penny goes to the library.

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Screw that! You should take the bus.

Doesn't look good for the Wolfpack again this year...I'm working all 3 days (well not sure about Monday yet), and my hours are smack in the middle of the day.

Not to disappoint you more, but the fair only runs Fri-Sun.

Oh, I'm totally in! Sounds like fun!

We'll be at Imperial War, so no go for us.

So who's going tonight? I think there's at least a couple of folks planning on going, shall we meet up?

No fair for us this year, sorry.

I went, I had guiness, then had karioke. Life is good.

I'm sure I mentioned this last year, but the important lesson from the International Street Fair is this the revelation that at minimum, every country in the world has at least two of the following as part of their national food selection: Sausage, fried ball of dough with sugar, beer, kebabs. Acceptable variations include fried circles of dough instead of balls and any meat that has spent time on a stick, whether served in kebab form or not.

You can reduce that list to one item.

There was a book I heard being hawked on NPR a few years ago talking about how every culture in the world has some form of fried dough.

I think it would be interesting to learn how long each of the cultures has been making fried dough and/or sausages.

Some cultures are known for sausage- namely the alpine and sub-alpine cultures of central Europe. Chorizo is known in a nation once ruled by an Austrian. Is there a connection?

I also find it interesting to note that the honey-soaked fried dough of Greece is uncannily similar to that of India... and I wonder if the cuisine's similarity mirrors those two countries' historical and cultural connections (many plebian Romans went to Romania (Byzantium) and east to what is now the Punjab district of India/Pakistan). If so, then fried dough has been around since at least the Romans. Of course, that's a big 'if', but still.

And according to Babylon 5, every alien species has some variation of Swedish meatballs.... :D

"Whaddya want, ya drunken shyte?!?"

Teehee....