On Saturday, John and I drove out to West Springfield with a college buddy of John's (from here, randomly went to USU) and some of his friends. The Big E is short for Eastern States Exposition (I think) and is hosted here in MA but put on my all of New England (MA, Rhode Island, Connecticut, Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine, for those that don't know).
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| Eating Pizza in Vermont |
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| Bag pipe band, in Vermont |
So each state has it's own building and showcases it's best/craziest food and local culture. Basically we ate our way through the day-it was pretty intense at times! My version of going to a fair is some eating, some entertainment, and lots of rides. Well we didn't go on any rides, and it's for the best because it probably would have ended badly after all the crap we ate. We did see a lot of farm animals and some prize pumpkins and a lot of horses...but mostly we wandered around the buildings and ate a lot.
The menu:
Corn on the cob on a stick from New Hampshire
Kettle Corn, also from NH (sample)
chocolate covered bacon from Connecticut
maple bacon flavored ice cream, from CT (sample)
Dell's frozen lemonade from RI (best thing I had all day)
American Flatbread pizza from Vermont
Lobster roll from Maine
raspberries from Mass
That was just the state buildings...outside we also sampled fried dough, deep fried oreos, a doughnut cheeseburger (instead of a bun, it was a krispy cream doughnut) and fried butter (notice a trend here?). The fried butter is actually butter rolled in dough and then friend, so the butter just melts and it's basically a scone with too much butter.
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| John and some moose |
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| State trooper car for Mass |
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| watching some local 4H girls on their horses |
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| Fried butter |
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| mmm, tasty |
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| crazy is right |
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| it was not good. |
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| but what a fun experience! ha ha |
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| baby llama |
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| giant pumpkin |
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| even bigger pumpkin |
Anyway, we were all feeling a little gross at the end of the day but it was still a good time. It was fun to meet some new people and they were all really fun and have invited us on a couple of weekend getaways the next 2 weeks so hopefully we'll be getting out a little more.
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| at the end of our adventure |
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| yeah, it's a pork palace |
3 comments:
That sounds awesome, and really gross all at the same time. When I lived in Vermont I got really fat, so be careful... Ha ha. What part of Vermont did you go to? I'm so jealous!
I agree with Kayla, that sounds equally rad and disgusting all at the same time!
It's always fun to get out. Hope you have lots of great fun weekends in your future!
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