Jananas

Yesterday we headed out to Mississauga to pick up our friends Jo & Guy. Then we were off to Elmira for their annual maple syrup festival. We had a fun car ride out with lots of pleasant and scenic detours through places like downtown KW  (why google maps, why?). And then a traffic jam for the last 4km into Elmira. But eventually we made it in, after parking our car way far away and catching the sort of hay ride behind a tractor thing they had going on.

I’m not entirely sure that I was expecting, but there was way less maple syrup goodness and way more more food vendors of every kind action going on. In fact, it was sort of strange. We did enjoy beating our way through the crowds, ogling the puppy dogs (including the woman who had her little toy dog in a stroller in a packed, packed, packed crowd), and eating ridiculous foods. We had soft preztels, beef jerky, pickles on sticks, maple flavoured cotton candy and kettle corn, and deep fried mars bars. I’ve heard tales of them before and figured that since we’d never come across them in person before that we should try one. You know, bucket list and all that. In this case the bucket list refers to a list of things that will kill you faster…

Jason caught this photo of me showing the mars bar off. It was a pretty strange experience. Partly because the chocolate bar was hot/warm which made the nougat get all extra chewy and tacky. It may just be that mars bars are really really sweet, but this was almost too much. Nevertheless, at least I tried one now.

We did round our evening off with a 4L jug of maple syrup and a pocket full of maple sugar candies, so I’ll consider the day itself a success even if there wasn’t as much fun learning about maple syrup action going on.