Today Ms. Conspiracy and I took a day trip to Charlotte, North Carolina, to attend the Festival in the Park. It’s a big gathering with music, funnel cakes, dancing (both ballet and belly), funnel cakes, arts and crafts vendors, funnel cakes, tables for local volunteer organizations and funnel cakes1. It was a little bit hot, but I had my Dr. Conspiracy hat on and enjoyed the afternoon.
If I had known what was going to happen, I would have take more photos.
As I was walking back to my car on the way home I was approached by a man probably around 60 years old, thin and bearded carrying a sign on a pole. I glanced at the sign and saw it was the usual Obama, socialist, destroying America thing. He tried to give me a little pamphlet. I gestured “no” but as I was passing him I thought I would pull his chain, and I said: “I’m one of those socialist liberal communists they warn you about.” (I am not really a socialist or a communist, but I was messing with him.) Then I heard a voice from behind me saying “I’m with YOU.” I turned to see a man impeccably dressed in upscale leisure attire, about 40 years of age, with his wife and child. Then he said that the only way we would get out of the economic mess was to re-elect Obama.
Sounds interesting. If the weather down there in Charlotte was anything like it is up here in Delaware for the past few weeks, it would have been perfect. Let me ask you this though: Did they have funnel cakes?
Thanks for asking. Yes they did, and I indulged in one.
Now I am puzzled….never even heard of them. It seems, Doc, that you would say I am missing something – but what????
How much fun would a funnel cake funnel if a funnel cake could funnel fun?
doc: you might want to change “hard” a voice to heard
hope you had a wonderful day – sounds like it – what did ms doc conspiracy say about the confrontation?
did they serve “dough boys/fried dough”
Well, looky there, spontaneous sanity and funnel cakes in Charlotte!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cake
Funnel cakes are a form of fried dough ….
Funnel cakes? It’s a southern thing (as are all things fried!), a staple of fairs and football games. Served here with an unhealthy coating of powdered sugar.
JPotter:
funnel cakes are different since they care from a cake mix/batter – we have them in the northeast too
dough/boys/fried dough is an italian thing and served at fairs here but began at italian feasts like the feast of st gennaro we just had in ny
it is a yeast dough
i serve them for breakfast with butter and sprinkled with either confectioners or cinnamon sugar
at fairs/feasts they are served with tomato sauce etc
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_sZbNKAtraUE/SpukITeNCUI/AAAAAAAAAIo/iLuzH-054Ro/s400/friedDough.jpg
With tomato sauce? That’s blasphemy.
And/or strawberry or chocolate syrup. Funnel cakes, plus football and the fair are just a few of the many reasons why fall is my favorite season!
thanks all for the information on funnel cakes!
I confess to a liking for churros, which must be similar, but they seem to be a working man’s dish and are hard to find in the parts of Spain I reach……
Nope, definitely not happening here! And, unfortunately, the fact that it exists in the northeast is in itself all the justification needed to shun it.
Closest thing would be breadsticks at the pizza place. LOL
We always have funnel cake vendors at all of our fairs up here too… so it is not just a southern thing.
JPotter:
shun it? NOT UNTIL you tried it
when i ask weekend guests what they would like for breakfast, doughboys (the breakfast kind) are frequently requested for one of the mornings