Local Holidays
Today is one of my favorite holidays: it's Pioneer Day here in Utah. When I was younger, we celebrated by eating pioneer-style food, but today we went to a better event: for ten bucks, we got tons of samples from various Provo restaurants. One pizza place somehow moved their brick oven to Center Street. I have no idea how that relates to pioneer day, but I'm sure the pioneers would be happy knowing we stuffed ourselves with great food to celebrate their entrance into the Salt Lake Valley.
What are your local holidays and what sort of food do you eat to celebrate them?
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I grew up in Lexington, MA, so Patriot's Day is a pretty big deal. Unfortunately, I don't remember eating anything traditional for it, unless you count fried dough and cotton candy. Hot dogs? Hm. No I know at some of the historical houses they have things like apple pie and corn bread ("maize cake") but mostly we celebrate being the birthplace of America by drinking beer and blowing up those helium balloons that don't deflate for months. Still, I'm totally proud.
embolini9 at 6:57PM on 07/24/09
Here in Washington there is a day call Salmon Days and they celebrate by eating, you guessed it salmon.
pjracz10 at 7:04PM on 07/24/09
In the little town I grew up right outside of, we had the Heritage Festival, which was just our local weekend thing in the fall kind of in honor of the towns (now defunct) coal/steel industry. The town right next to us, around the same time of year but never the same weekend, would have the Glass Festival since that particular town (obviously) was built up more on glass and glass blowing industries. I totally miss our local fair food: funnel cakes, Aumer's Sausage trucks, haluski, pierogies, kielbasa, and really good cheesy fries (among other more standard, less regional fair food). Now I want to make haluski. mmmmm
joyyy at 9:35PM on 07/24/09
Mardi Gras! The best local holiday ever.
RegrettableFoodie at 3:30PM on 07/25/09
Meh. Mardi Gras is fantastic and awesome for the city's budget, but I get so bored with visitors who just come to get rip roaring drunk and have no concept of respect for us or our city.
nightowl at 6:17PM on 07/25/09
we usually have an apple blossom festival because we're in the heart of apple country in upstate ny.....
pooch at 8:33PM on 07/25/09
The town next door has Nostalgia Day, but the food isn't very nostalgic. Up the mountain, there's a Scottish festival where you can have haggis, if you want. I usually go for the cornish pasties and Guiness on tap. They also have a huge number of Scotch whiskeys and some other foods that I'm probably not remembering. You can also buy a kilt. Lots of bagpipe music. And really strange sporting events like log tossing.
dbcurrie at 9:49PM on 07/25/09
That sounds like so much fun! I'm new to the ATL area so I haven't yet taken part in any local "conglomerate" type events. I hope to enjoy such local events soon.
I used to live in a sh*thole town in SW Colorado and they had a couple of days every year to celebrate themselves. They brought in carnival-type rides and had food stalls, it was all very quaint but not very memorable.
The Street Fairs of NY rival just about anything I've seen in the way of a local event. There's a feast celebrating just about every saint in the Catholic religion, Puerto Rican Day, Caribbean Day, you name it - something for everyone!
therealchiffonade at 11:13PM on 07/25/09
@embolini9--- the official food of Patriots Day is BEER! For those of you who are not from the great state of Massachusetts, this is also marathon monday, the day of the Boston marathon. I think most of the non-marathoners begin drinking at sunrise and keep going until...well, they fall.
veggieout at 12:47PM on 07/26/09
Jubilee Day in my central Pennsylvania hometown has been around for a while. It's a street fair that happens around my birthday in mid-June and there are plenty of insidious food stands offering fried anything (including Oreos and Twinkies), gyros, Chinese food, chocolate-covered strawberries, cotton candy, Sno-Cones. There are carnival rides, sundry contests and I recall these odd kids swallowing goldfish they won at one of the game booths. Don't ask me. Also, every year I went, I'd get so excited about the Paint-Your-Own stand where you buy some offbeat white bisque figurine and paint it there. Most of mine were tossed long ago, but I still have a little Day-glo orange potbellied piggybank I fashioned when I was 8 or 9.
Susquehanna at 1:27PM on 07/26/09