It's Evansville — A Fall Festival Food Adventure: Day 1

A Fall Festival Food Adventure: Day 1

We ventured down to Franklin Street for our first taste of the 2007 Fall Festival today. Several things were eaten that we wanted to tell our readers about.

First, I went out on a limb and tried alligator: an Alligator Stuffed Potato to be exact. The baked potato needed to be cooked a little longer, but it was do-able. The alligator was ground and cooked in heavy spices. On top was butter, cheese, and sour cream. More or less it tasted like a baked potato with chili on it. It wasn’t the best, but wasn’t as scary as I thought it’d be. The Alligator Stuffed Potato is at booth 72, Montessori Academy. $3.50, and you get a button with it saying you joined the I Eat Alligator Club.

We both decided to have Chicken & Dumplings, despite the heat. With 6 booths offering this, we decided to go with one we found that ONLY offered this. The dumplings themselves were nice square, doughy ones…a little on the thin side though. Besides needing a touch of salt, they seemed to be flavored well. My one complaint was not having very much chicken. But all in all, I really enjoyed them. These Chicken & Dumplings are at booth 18, Emmanuel Lutheran Church. $3 for small, $5 for medium, $8 for large.

In addition, we picked up some other favorites like pints of cider, apple and cinnamon kuchens, chocolate and peanut butter fudge (25 cents a square!), and buckeyes.

We are heading back again and will have more ideas for you.

In the mean time, what is your favorite thing to eat down at the Fall Festival? What (besides the brain sandwich—because that’s just not happening) might you want us to try? Maybe we will!

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Infinion0

October 04, 2007 @ 07:22AM

Had a few things last night, but after how I feel this morning, I won’t bother suggesting them. My wife had a ribeye steak sandwich with peppers and onions that was very good. I didn’t bother to see where, it’s on the map though. Could you check out the booth that had crawfish-something, gumbo-something, and other good sounding stuff. I believe it was the “German township…something sometime…” I thought they had some good stuff, but I never got back around to them.

christine

October 04, 2007 @ 09:44AM

my favorites are the corn on the cob from the usi art club. it is sweet, hot and buttery. and the kraut balls from germania maennerchor. they are 2 for $1.00 and two is definitely enough.

Bobby

October 04, 2007 @ 02:09PM

I tried the crawfish etouffee from the german township boosters booth and was not a huge fan of it at all. At first it just tasted really spicy but left a terribly strong fishy taste afterwards.I also had some apple cider but everyone knows how that tastes. My girlfriend had the loaded potato soup from the central high music booth and she really enjoyed it. It had huge chunks of potato in it and lots of toppings. Her youngest daughter had the pizza pretzel pocket from the cornerstone assembly of god. It had pepperoni and sausage in a pretzel with your choice of dipping sauces. She really liked it. Her oldest daughter ate the BBQ turkey sandwich from the evansville lutheran booth, which if you plan on doing some walking i dont suggest getting because it was a huge bun filled to overflow with very runny bbq turkey. I really wanted to try the Gator Taters but didnt have time to….ohh well i guess ill get me some of that tonite hehe