I was a lot more excited to write about The Blue Owl before I became violently ill last week with a stomach bug that made it impossible to sit up at a computer, much less write about food. Seven days later, and finally feeling well again, I’m here to tell you about Kimmswick, Missouri’s infamous [...]
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Because in rural Missouri, everything’s better with fresh cooked bacon (rinds). In case you can’t read the sign, you can get capuccino at the bacon rind booth, as well as hot chocolate and hot apple cider. Fresh Cooked Bacon Rinds, photo by smalltowngirl *** For more about meat at the Kimmswick Apple Butter Festival, be sure to read [...] Get your mind out of the gutter! I’m talking about 12 inches of the best meat in the Midwest. Not that kind of meat, people. The Best 12 inches in the Midwest, photo by smalltowngirl This is BBQ we’re talking about. 12inches of BBQ kabobs for just $5.00. Yee-haw y’all. Welcome to Missouri! Sweet Meat Stix, photo [...] Ice Cream or Animal Feed? photo by smalltowngirl Petting zoos are such odd things. Can you imagine trucking your camels and llamas and goats around to fairs and festival and carnivals, charging a nominal feel to let people pet them? Camels and Mini-Vans, photo by smalltowngirl This particular mobile petting zoo was set up at – [...] The Apple Butter Festival is a huge, two-day festival every October in historic Kimmswick, Missouri. This year was my first time attending, and I was impressed by the size of the event. Hundreds of food and craft vendors set up tents, the Blue Owl served food in and outside of the restaurant, Kimmswick’s shops were [...] Fish Face, photo by smalltowngirl Just in case anyone’s wondering what’s on my holiday wish-list, I think it’s safe to say that I need one of these blue-eyed fish-faced things. I don’t know what they are, but if this dude drove all the way to Kimmswick, Missouri from Florida to sell them, I most certainly [...] Apple Butter, photo by smalltowngirl Saturday and Sunday, October 24th and 25th were the annual Kimmswick, Missouri Apple Butter Festival. As a self-proclaimed expert in all things small town Missouri, I put on my rockin’ cowboy boots, grabbed my camera, and made my way to Kimmswick, Missouri. I parked at Windsor High School and walked the [...] |
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