The 2010 Farm Show butter sculpture carved from 1,000 pounds of Land o'Lakes butter, depicting a dairy farm family enjoying breakfast. From the Farm Show website.
Let's see... We've just had some snow and it's bitterly cold outside. It must be Farm Show week!
The 94th Farm Show kicks off tomorrow at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center in Harrisburg. The Pennsylvania Farm Show happens to be the largest indoor agricultural event in the country. This year they expect over 400,000 people to pass through their doors to check out the famous 1,000-pound butter sculpture, the 6,000 animals and over 10,000 exhibits. However, many return year after year for another reason. Three words: Farm Show Food.
This year's farm show theme is Keeping Pennsylvania Growing. Going along with this, they serve up a wealth of Pennsylvania products in the food court. Should you attend, I challenge you to try any of the following and let me know what you think:
□ Baked Potato (It's a Farm Show favorite!)
□ Pork BBQ Sandwich
□ Grilled Portabella Sandwich
□ Chicken Corn Soup
□ Philly Cheese Steak and/or a Chicken Cheese Steak
□ Maple Cotton Candy
□ Shoofly Pie
□ Whoopie Pies
□ Apple Dumplings
□ Caramel Apple on a Stick
□ Honey Ice Cream
□ Milkshakes (Another Farm Show favorite, at least of mine...)
That's just skimming the surface, my friends!
The Pennsylvania Farm Show starts tomorrow, Sat., January 9th and runs to Saturday, January 16th. I plan on attending the Show this Sunday; I'll be sure to tell you all about it (with pictures!). If you're thinking of attending, check out the Farm Show website, www.farmshow.state.pa.us. It has everything you need to know regarding directions, parking, event schedules, hours and more.
p.s. You can even find past years' winning recipes (from corn bread to pineapple upside down cake) by clicking on "2010 Show," then "Winning Recipes."
I'll await to read your experience on Sunday's visit. I've gone the past two years but vow to never return and here's why--SCHOOL KIDS RUNNING AMOK! They're transported to the Farm Show by the busloads and in many instances set free. Last year especially,I was pushed & shoved out of the way, dangerous on the escalators, was subjected to some of the foulest language you'd never want to hear, was forced to stop in my tracks to avoid being run down by racing kids. It's unfortunate that the chaperones do not discuss proper behavior in public before releasing these hell-raisers inside the building. Yes, there were many students who were taught, perhaps at an early age, how to behave in public and this is always welcome to see and I congratulate them all. As anyone who regularly attends an event as large as the PA Farm show knows, it attracts hoards of people every day. There's no romm inside for marauding,racing, packs of misbehaved kids.
Maybe a non-school day would be a better choice.
I had:
Pork BBQ (good), meatball sub(ok), fried mozarella cubes (great), honey waffles with ice cream (good), shoo fly pie (very good) and I think something else but I forget.
Oh, the $3 bottle of water.
I would have tried more but the crowd was too much.
Prices were not bad, but I will not be back anytime soon unless I can figure out when it isn't so packed (if there is such a time).
Jo, the Farm Show was crazy! I'm not sure there's ever a "good" time to go. I wrote all about in my latest entry.
Yum! We tried some of those too. I agree, the prices were not bad at all but man oh man was it packed in there...