Tasting the Great MN Get-Together

by: Amelia Cameron

I hope you are all like me and are eagerly awaiting the next Taste Buds meeting.  It feels like so long since the ice cream excursion.  Oh it was fun!!!  It's really too bad we cannot do these more often...I mean come on, what is better than eating yummy food with wonderful girl friends?!?!?  Not too many things let me tell you.

You may have guessed by our poll what our next tasting is centered around...oh yeah and I guess the title of this posting gave it away too.  The Taste Buds are heading to the MN State Fair.  In the olden days the fair was about buying and selling farm gear, entering your best jam to hopefully win the blue ribbon, and a chance to catch up with distant friends.  Nowadays, lets be honest...it's about eating, Eating, EATING(.... and maybe a good Boyz 2 Men reunion).  What a better place to showcase the Taste Buds' refined culinary taste buds than at the fair!!!

One thing that we realized when planning our State Fair Addition of the Taste Buds is that we were going to be hard pressed to find one "dish" that is replicated by multiple vendors.  That is what we Minnesotans love about State Fair, its eating variety!  What is usually a heaven sent, caused a bit of a problem for us girls.  After much deliberation we decided that we were to gear the State Fair Addition to general tasting.  We are going to do less of a "contest" and more of a "review."  The Taste Buds will taste a wide variety of items on Tuesday, August 31st and report back to you on our findings.

I am very excited to engross myself in the Great Minnesota Get-Together (heck, it's only here for two weeks out of the year), eat until my hearts content and my tummy is bursting (amazingly that happens about the same time) and mostly, I cannot wait to spend time with my dear fellow Taste Buds!!!

Until then....Happy Tasting!!!