Random stuff from the last couple days

[xiphias]

We went to Topsfield fair -- I got a list of the cooking contest categories. One category is cheesecake, and Lis says I have to enter next year.

For everyone else on my friends list: Topsfield fair also has competitions for over twenty categories of beer, a dozen categories of wine, a half-dozen categories of cider, four or five categories of mead. C'mon, folks -- I've HAD some of the stuff you brew -- I KNOW that some of you can pick up a couple blue ribbons at the state fair. You have GOT to do this -- I want to see at LEAST a dozen blue ribbons and maybe another dozen red ribbons on my friends list next year.

Besides, don't you want to tell people that your mead won a blue ribbon at the state fair? (And some of the subcategories got almost no entries -- I don't think there was even one entry for French-style perry, for instance. I don't think there were THAT many melomels, either -- and I KNOW some of you do kickass melomel.)

Also, Fantasy Wargaming finally showed up. It sucks much less than I remember -- it's actually very good. I'm kind of disappointed . . .

Comments

[cogitationitis.livejournal.com]

I'm not certain, but I believe you're supposed to live in Essex county to compete.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Looking over the rules, I only see residency requiredments for the Mrs Essex County pagent and the King Arthur Flour chocolate chip cookie contest. For the brewing contests, you may drop your entries off at the fairgrounts, in Cambridge, in Beverly, or in Portsmouth, NH, which suggests to me that they expect people all over the area to enter.

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Do they have a pie category? If they do, I'm all over that when I move back.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Actually, they have four pie categories: one-crust, two-crust, apple, and a Pilsbury-sponored contest using Pilsbury pie crust.

[phantom_wolfboy]

Shouldn't you be entering the beefcake category?