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Oldsrocket_27: Apr 28, 2009

I'm not sure I'd go for Italian sausage. I've worked concessions at our county fair for years, and our company actually stopped doing a sausage stand a number of years back, because they just don't sell. People basically saw them as over-priced hot dogs, and being in the boring-rear end midwest, would actually complain about the Italian sausages being too spicy (they were plenty mild).

Something like barbequed pork sandwiches could go well. You could also keep doing burgers, but make the best drat burgers at the fair, offer lots of topping options, good buns, etc. We have a burger stand (that also does fresh-cut fries and fried potato skins) that is an absolute staple, and their burgers are simple, greasy as gently caress, and delicious, and it's all they need to be to constantly be busy. IIRC they use 80/20 beef. The cook times are a bit long when they have a line, so they give you a number when you order, and yell it out when it's up.

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# ? May 27, 2024 05:54

bongwizzard: May 19, 2005; Then one day I meet a man,
He came to me and said,
"Hard work good and hard work fine,
but first take care of head"; Grimey Drawer

So today at the festival, at the moment the barricades came down and the crowd made it's mad run inside to get good seats, Yakity Sax began to blast from the main stage PA. It was magical.

Also, looking for simple recipes to feed 6 dudes that can be cooked entirely on a grill and have little prep. We need to up our bus dinner routine. Also the boss is a vegan so it would be nice to find stuff for him that shares prep and/or ingredence.

# ? Apr 26, 2015 23:49

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Steaks, grilled veggies(asparagus, onions, bell peppers, mushrooms), grilled potatoes. Grilled cheese. Kebabs.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 00:08

Casu Marzu: Oct 20, 2008

Hobo packets

# ? Apr 27, 2015 00:32

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

EAT THE EGGS RICOLA posted:

What? Beavertails are a Canadian company that makes fried dough topped with sugar/lemon/nutella/whatever.

There are stands all around the city I live in, and for a while they had signs everywhere with pictures of Obama eating one when he came up.

Sorry, I was posting from my phone at 430 am.

Yes. Ottawa sells Beaver tails. What distinguishes a Beavertail from an Elephant Ear is that the Beavertail is covered in maple sugar.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 01:56

POOL IS CLOSED: Jul 14, 2011; I'm just exploding with mackerel. This is the aji wo kutta of my discontent.; Pillbug

Frito pie is fair food and it's delicious. Serve it in the Frito bag. You can add sliced sausages/hotdogs too.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 02:12

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

I was gonna suggest frybread but then i googled Navajo Tacos. I didn't know that some people call it that. Funnel cakes? Funnel cakes sell like crazy.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 02:26

Echeveria: Aug 26, 2014

Crepes, smothered in nutella or jam and whipped cream, bananas and fruit, and wrapped up like a burrito. Then give it a handy paper bag wrap and people can nom while they walk.

Alternately, kebabs of meat are always delicious.

Edit: Also google the Calgary Stampede. They always have the weirdest food. They always offer giant turkey drumsticks that are delicious. Also deep fried pickles.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 02:31

Marta Velasquez: Mar 9, 2013; Good thing I was feeling suicidal this morning...; Fallen Rib

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Okay, need you all to put on your thinking caps.

One of my wife's duties is to manage the county 4H program, and traditionally one of their big fundraisers has been to run a concession stand at the county fair. Traditionally they sold hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, beer, etc, and they did really well. However, since the university decided that they couldn't have minors selling beer they've only been doing the burgers and stuff, and sales have suffered in the face of all the other really good food one can get at the fair. So they need to come up with something unique and delicious to draw in the hungry crowds and make more money for the program. Good Mexican, BBQ, fried food, and Indian food (that's Paiute, not Chennai) is already available, so can't do those. The booth has a couple of big flat grills and refridgeration, but that's about it for equipment. Any ideas?

Kabobs? People always like meat on a stick.

e:f;b

# ? Apr 27, 2015 02:51

Marta Velasquez: Mar 9, 2013; Good thing I was feeling suicidal this morning...; Fallen Rib

Grilled cheeses or arepas. You can add bacon and other options as add-ons, too.

If you want to put a pot or pan on the grill, you do something like sell bags of popcorn.

There's also saut�ed veggie wraps if there is a large vegetarian demographic. Maybe you can cook up strips of meat and make gyro-like things.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 03:06

GrAviTy84: Nov 25, 2004

Mr. Wiggles posted:

Okay, need you all to put on your thinking caps.

One of my wife's duties is to manage the county 4H program, and traditionally one of their big fundraisers has been to run a concession stand at the county fair. Traditionally they sold hamburgers, hotdogs, chips, beer, etc, and they did really well. However, since the university decided that they couldn't have minors selling beer they've only been doing the burgers and stuff, and sales have suffered in the face of all the other really good food one can get at the fair. So they need to come up with something unique and delicious to draw in the hungry crowds and make more money for the program. Good Mexican, BBQ, fried food, and Indian food (that's Paiute, not Chennai) is already available, so can't do those. The booth has a couple of big flat grills and refridgeration, but that's about it for equipment. Any ideas?

Sisig rice bowls, Okonomiyaki, Dosas, Philly cheese steaks

# ? Apr 27, 2015 05:02

Croatoan: Jun 24, 2005; I am inevitable.
ROBBLE GROBBLE

Falafels?

# ? Apr 27, 2015 05:17

Mr. Wiggles: Dec 1, 2003; We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

GrAviTy84 posted:

Sisig rice bowls, Okonomiyaki, Dosas, Philly cheese steaks

I think, if presented with okonomiyaki, the residents of our fair county would possibly look askance. Which is a shame because I would love to eat okonomiyaki while I watched the demolition derby and drank Miller Lite.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 06:02

Disco Salmon: Jun 19, 2004

Had another thought re: the food fair.

I have seen bacon on a stick lately at the different fairs/farmer's markets, etc and it seems to be VERY popular. Maybe that could be something?

# ? Apr 27, 2015 06:22

GrAviTy84: Nov 25, 2004

Mr. Wiggles posted:

I think, if presented with okonomiyaki, the residents of our fair county would possibly look askance. Which is a shame because I would love to eat okonomiyaki while I watched the demolition derby and drank Miller Lite.

just call it a japanese pancake

# ? Apr 27, 2015 06:57

Steve Yun: Aug 7, 2003; I'm a parasitic landlord that needs to get a job instead of stealing worker's money. Make sure to remind me when I post.; Soiled Meat

GrAviTy84 posted:

just call it a japanese pancake

Still too exotic

# ? Apr 27, 2015 07:03

mindphlux: Jan 8, 2004; by R. Guyovich

d�ner kebap

hot chicken

fish and grits

# ? Apr 27, 2015 07:58

therattle: Jul 24, 2007; Soiled Meat

GrAviTy84 posted:

just call it a japanese pancake

Ain't them the folk that did Pearl Harbour?

# ? Apr 27, 2015 08:13

pile of brown: Dec 31, 2004

Flapjaps then

# ? Apr 27, 2015 08:53

Mr. Wiggles: Dec 1, 2003; We are all drinking from the highball glass of ideology.

Lol

# ? Apr 27, 2015 14:20

Very Strange Things: May 21, 2008

Waffle and Fried chicken sandwich.

Fried chicken in a biscuit with white gravy would be better, but I think the whole Chicken 'n Waffles thing is still "trending"

Chicken-fried steak sandwich on a biscuit with the white gravy would be awesome too, but chicken is cheaper.

You could mark up a 1/3 pound of chicken + homemade bread (biscuit, waffle, brioche) 500% and still make people happy.

Very Strange Things fucked around with this message at 15:31 on Apr 27, 2015

# ? Apr 27, 2015 15:22

Paper With Lines: Aug 21, 2013; The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

Casu Marzu posted:

Hobo packets

This looks legit awesome. Is this just like a poor man's burger-stew or something?

# ? Apr 27, 2015 16:06

The Midniter: Jul 9, 2001

Nthing the idea for sausage and peppers, Wiggles.

My fiancee's mother visited this weekend and we went to our favorite diner for brunch on Saturday. I got eggs and hash browns with liver mush, which neither of them had tried nor even heard of before. My lady asked to try it and I obliged, thinking she might be okay with it since I've exposed her to chicken livers, and liver mush is kind of like a liver-flavored corn beef hash type of dish.

Nope, she hated it so much she immediately spat it out and had to rinse her mouth out and said it almost ruined the rest of her meal. I can only imagine what she'd think if she tasted actual non-deep-fried liver (which is how we had the chicken livers). Poor girl. I happily ate the rest.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 17:41

Casu Marzu: Oct 20, 2008

Paper With Lines posted:

This looks legit awesome. Is this just like a poor man's burger-stew or something?

Yeah. They're lazy food packets for when you only have open fire to cook with.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 17:48

Paper With Lines: Aug 21, 2013; The snozzberries taste like snozzberries!

Did you guys see this article about butchery that is making the rounds?

# ? Apr 27, 2015 19:45

Happy Hat: Aug 11, 2008; He just wants someone to shake his corks, is that too much to ask??

Awaiting the call for Katmandu

# ? Apr 27, 2015 22:01

Chef De Cuisinart: Oct 31, 2010; Brandy does in fact, in my experience, contribute to Getting Down.

Paper With Lines posted:

Did you guys see this article about butchery that is making the rounds?

The gently caress was I supposed to get out of that? I butcher animals because I want to gently caress? I kill things to eat them, gladly. I don't make the chicken/pig/deer/boar/etc. suffer; I just kill it, gut it, and eat it. I enjoy it(gently caress anyone who says "I don't enjoy it, but it's necessary.") Then I part it out, and do whatever afterwards.

I just don't get how you need to write an article about how you butchered a thing, and how that made you feel. Nobody loving did it in the past 20k+ years, what's the loving point.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 22:52

wheez the roux: Aug 2, 2004; THEY SHOULD'VE GIVEN IT TO LYNCH

Death to the Seahawks. Death to Seahawks posters.

Chef De Cuisinart posted:

I just don't get how you need to write an article about how you butchered a thing, and how that made you feel. Nobody loving did it in the past 20k+ years, what's the loving point.

uhhhhh what the gently caress are you talking about because people sure as poo poo have been writing about butchery for as long as we've had systems to write with

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:05

Chef De Cuisinart: Oct 31, 2010; Brandy does in fact, in my experience, contribute to Getting Down.

wheez the roux posted:

uhhhhh what the gently caress are you talking about because people sure as poo poo have been writing about butchery for as long as we've had systems to write with

I don't mean butchery as a skill, I mean "How Butchering a Thing Made Me Have the Feels"

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:11

wheez the roux: Aug 2, 2004; THEY SHOULD'VE GIVEN IT TO LYNCH

Death to the Seahawks. Death to Seahawks posters.

Chef De Cuisinart posted:

I don't mean butchery as a skill, I mean "How Butchering a Thing Made Me Have the Feels"

there is plenty of this too

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:13

Chef De Cuisinart: Oct 31, 2010; Brandy does in fact, in my experience, contribute to Getting Down.

wheez the roux posted:

there is plenty of this too

Well yeah, but that's not really my point. This lady is a once vegetarian that is having trouble dealing with the fact that people kill things to eat them, and that somehow is related to porn and violence?

Sorry, it's a bad article, have a guy butchering a cow in return.

:nws:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8TBvkcSeFk

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:27

CommonShore: Jun 6, 2014; A true renaissance man

Actually the "I was/am a vegetarian but here's my experience with slaughter" is so common of an article that it's basically a cliche.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:46

Teeter: Jul 21, 2005; Hey guys! I'm having a good time, what about you?

We wouldn't speak of the "art" of torture, rape, or child abuse. Should the "art" of butchering other sentient beings be legal? In practice, a moral revolution in human treatment of nonhuman animals will probably wait until the in vitro meat revolution makes butchery obsolete. The morally serious should at least go vegetarian in the meantime.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:48

Drink and Fight: Feb 2, 2003

I stopped reading that article about halfway through because it was idiotic and meandering.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:52

SubG: Aug 19, 2004; It's a hard world for little things.

Teeter posted:

We wouldn't speak of the "art" of torture, rape, or child abuse. Should the "art" of butchering other sentient beings be legal? In practice, a moral revolution in human treatment of nonhuman animals will probably wait until the in vitro meat revolution makes butchery obsolete. The morally serious should at least go vegetarian in the meantime.

Y'all must get a better class of squirrel than we get around here.

# ? Apr 27, 2015 23:53

GrAviTy84: Nov 25, 2004

Teeter posted:

We wouldn't speak of the "art" of torture, rape, or child abuse. Should the "art" of butchering other sentient beings be legal? In practice, a moral revolution in human treatment of nonhuman animals will probably wait until the in vitro meat revolution makes butchery obsolete. The morally serious should at least go vegetarian in the meantime.

torture, rape, child abuse happen to a live thing. butchering happens to a dead thing. It's a pretty straightforward thing that is easy to lose sight of if one has prejudices coming into the discussion (namely if one is vegan). I don't believe anyone is advocating the torture, rape, or abuse of live animals.

# ? Apr 28, 2015 00:00

VelociBacon: Dec 8, 2009

This thread just made me go get a burger.

# ? Apr 28, 2015 00:19

Echeveria: Aug 26, 2014

I'm changing the topic.

I have ground chuck, potatoes and carrots, and gobs of seasoning. I was thinking of being a lazy gently caress and making a hash for dinner, but I'd like to do more than just garlic onion salt and pepper. Any recommendations?

# ? Apr 28, 2015 00:32

Casu Marzu: Oct 20, 2008

quote:

The skin did not come off like a sweater, as I�d been told it would. I�d looked at how to do it in the classic Joy of Cooking, figuring the directions for squirrel couldn�t be much different from rabbit: hook it through the heels, yank the skin down to its paws.

Hahahahaha rabbit pelts come off like socks, skinning squirrels loving sucks unless they're super freshly dead, like, I just shot it, walked up, and skinned it dead.

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# ? May 27, 2024 05:54

VelociBacon: Dec 8, 2009

Echeveria posted:

I'm changing the topic.

I have ground chuck, potatoes and carrots, and gobs of seasoning. I was thinking of being a lazy gently caress and making a hash for dinner, but I'd like to do more than just garlic onion salt and pepper. Any recommendations?

Go for upscale shepard's pie?

# ? Apr 28, 2015 00:49

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