Popular Gilroy Garlic Festival hoping you won't notice lack of garlic

[Gemini Cricket]

Meh. Just go to the produce section of a Whole Foods with some balloons and a bag of popcorn and there you have it.

[€uroMeinke]

Anyone going to the Tofu festival in Little Tokyo?

[Alex]

For the most part I've found all produce festivals to share about 98% of the same genetic material. If you've been to one then you've probably been to almost all of them.

Though the worst was the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay where we walked the whole thing and hardly saw any pumpkin food. Gilroy is better than most in this regard.

[MouseWife]

LOL GC, let me know when you decide to party at Whole Foods, okay? I'll bring my camera...

I wanna go to the avocado festival!!! Where is this? I love love love them! {unless they are brown, then, yuck!}

I would love to go to the Pumpkin Festival in Half Moon Bay. Well...only if I could stay at the Ritz-Carlton for my weekend visit....I'm sure they'd serve some pumpkin pie that I could eat curled up by the fireplace.

You got lemons, make lemonade. Enjoy where you are.

Even if it is in the produce aisle at Whole Foods!

{but Gilroy? That is like a pitstop along the way to Monterey from Yosemite, right? And it stinks!!! Egads, no, no garlic festival for me, thanks!}

[Lady Colleen]

I have never gone to the Garlic Festival, but I have wanted to. I have been to Gilroy and found it cute. I guess you can fine the boring in someting if you want to but I prefer to find the fun. Life is to short.

[RStar]

There are very few Strawberry fields left in Garden Grove, but they still host the Strawberry Festival every year. It's part heritage, part celebration of the favorite food- no mater where it comes from.

Orange County started with wine grapes. I'm glade we don't live in Grape County. Disease whipped out the vineyards and they switched to Celery and Beans, if memory serves. Celery County sounds even less attractive. That's the problem with crops, they only seem to last so long, things change.

[JWBear]

Do they make danish in Denmark? Hamburgers in Hamburg? French fries in France? I think not!





(I had a point in there somewhere... But I'm not sure what it is...)

[blueerica]

Avocado Festival is in the fall at some point. I should go this year. It's "last call" for me.

Avocado Festival website.

First weekend in October. I'll have to see what my schedule is, I may try to work in a day, but I won't know until probably a week in advance.

[MouseWife]

Originally Posted by blueerica

Avocado Festival is in the fall at some point. I should go this year. It's "last call" for me.

Avocado Festival website.

First weekend in October. I'll have to see what my schedule is, I may try to work in a day, but I won't know until probably a week in advance.

Thanks for the link! Carpenteria, hmm, that is in a good place.

And, no offense about Gilroy. It is a bustling little town. But. The last time we went through there, the smell almost suffocated me. My sense of smell is extremely sensitive. I guess added to the heat, it was smothering.

So, I know I couldn't enjoy the festival.

[sleepyjeff]

What I want to know is if WendyBeth ever gets over to Wallace, Idaho for the Huckleberry Festival.......

Homemade Huckleberry Icecream .....best in the World!

I am going to miss it again this year.....I'll be in Orlando fighting off hurricanes and whatnot /