October 16th, 2011
Where’s the Scrapple?, Apple-Scrapple Festival…and Where was Rapa’s Tent?, Hopkins Creamery, Sweet Ending
I was looking forward to this festival that is now in its 20th year. Our first stop was at T.S. Smith & Sons where we had some fresh apple cider. But, my party was getting restless. They wanted to get to the actual festival.
Bridgeville was crowded; streets were blocked. We were lucky to find a parking space in the high school. And, to the streets we took off. My party? John, Michael, and Matt. If you know me personally, you know who these are.
They were hungry. No time to see craft vendors or the car show, you know. They were wondering if they had beer; not really, it is a family festival.
It was packed. Shoulder to shoulder with people. There was no way I was going to be able to get a scrapple sandwich. The lines were too long; I was not waiting.
The music was playing. We found a stand with roast beef that was gorgeous. My companions had each one of those. They were like hoagies. Huge. The roast beef was delicious.
I decided to get a crabcake. Actually, it was very good. Not a lot of filler, but some.
Still no scrapple. We kept on going towards the ferris wheel. Lines on both sides of the street. Then, we saw the sign for ribs. Matt thought we should get half a rack; John decided that a full rack for all of us would be best. Then we heard: “A full rack for Mel Gibson”. We started laughing with them and they could not believe John looked like Mel and started kidding him about him being at the festival in slower lower. This is not the first time this has happened, though. Funny it happened here.
The ribs were probably one of the best we had all had. Perfectly cooked; crispy and with just the right amount of sauce.
We tried to get John to do the “skillet toss” competition using reversed psychology but he did not take the bait.
On the way out we picked up an oyster sandwich. I will admit that I did not like it. Too much dough; not enough oysters.
There was so much food…a lot of fried food too. Fried chicken, fries, funnel cakes. Pastries and pies and cotton candy.
We were ready to go. We were glad we had gone. It had a carnival atmosphere; probably not the way it had originally started.
On our way home we stopped at Hopkins Creamery…we had not had enough to eat. Homemade ice cream right there on the farm on Rt. 9. Pumpkin pie ice cream and rum raisin and chocolate too.
Hopkins Creamery is located at 16186 Dairy Farm Rd., 3 miles west on the Lewes-Georgetown Highway. The Website? http://www.hopkinsfarmcreamery.com.
Ending the evening with Nicola Pizza was too much to take in one day.
That’s okay; I did not get the scrapple at the festival, but I do have it in my refrigerator.
In retrospect, I thought it was too commercialized. Too bad; I would have loved to have seen more of the scrapple and apple representation; that’s why the festival started.
Talk to you later…
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