notbob wrote:
>
> AFter walking around for about 3 hrs and going to my van to come back and
> pick up Mom for the ride home, I passed a hot dog stand on the opposite
> corner that was there before the festival and will no doubt be there after
> the festival. All prices were 40-50% less than any stand in the festival
> for the same item. Are those food vendors jes plain greedy or are they
> getting reemed by the town?
>
> I'll not bother to get into the vendors selling plain ol' crap.

I had a major disappointment at a local festival. We went by bicycle,
pedaling over 12 miles to get to the event. In previous years I had had
excellent Indian food and Gyros. As we were getting close to the even I
was starting to get hungry and had a hankering for a nice Gyros like the
one I had the last time I went to it.

I came across a concession that was selling Beef Fajitas, Chicken
Slouvaki and their "world class Gyros" and ordered one. I should have
been more aware of what they were serving to the people ahead of me.
They had a big warming tray of fried onions and peppers (red and green)
that they were putting on everything..... hardly any meat but a lot of
this universal filler. They topped my gyros <?> with a squirt of a very
liquid sauce.

It was disgusting. There was hardly any gyros meat in it, and the meat
tasted like it was all pork, no beef or lamb in it. The sauce was mostly
basically a very wet yogurt and garlic, no cucumber.

Meanwhile, my wife had gone elsewhere and got an order of chicken
nuggets. They were even worse than my gyros.

I don't see myself being motivated to go back next year.