On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 22:27:36 -0500, "Virginia Tadrzynski"
> wrote:

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>"The Cook" > wrote in message
>news
>>I picked up my entries from the fair today. Here a couple of pictures
>> of the ribbons.
>>
>> All of the winning entries. http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=3zizvnt
>>
>> The Best of the Soft Spreads. http://tinypic.com/view/?pic=44gmvdt
>>
>> The tomato juice and the sliced peaches were not opened at all. The
>> seal had at least been broken on everything else.
>>
>> I did get a book for this year's fair and will be on the mailing list
>> for next year. I think I will download some of the scoring
>> information from the state fair to use in deciding which item to enter
>> or whether to skip the category.
>>
>> Now back to work juicing the rest of the muscadines.
>>
>>
>> --
>> Susan N.
>>
>> "Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
>> 48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
>> Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974
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>
>Susan, they look wonderful (did ya send Barb some of those prize winning
>beets?). What fair did you enter? I thought most were over by now. I know
>in PA (where I now live) they have the Farm Show in Harrisburg in January,
>which is basically the state fair, but I don't know squat about entering
>anything in it. I remember being a kid in NC that the state fair was in
>October after all the county fairs closed so the winners could advance.
>-ginny
>

The message was posted in early October. State fair is in the middle
of October and there is no longer any advancing from county to state.
I entered the Dixie Classic Fair in Winston Salem. It is somewhere
between the little county fairs and the State Fair and is open to
anyone in the state but seems to draw mostly from Forsyth and
surrounding counties. You don't want to enter a fair that is too far
away since it takes 3 trips -- take entries, go back to see how you
did, and then pick up jars and any ribbons.

Last year I entered the county (Surry) fair and did OK but there was
no county fair here this year.

Lots of fun.
--
Susan N.

"Moral indignation is in most cases two percent moral,
48 percent indignation, and 50 percent envy."
Vittorio De Sica, Italian movie director (1901-1974