#1071 Garlicking

If you see a cloud wafting up the I-5 corridor and when that cloud reaches you it’s redolent of a certain pungent root, then you know it’s that time of year again.
Yep, it’s time for the annual Chehalis Garlic Fest. Over 65 strains of organically grown garlic!
I was looking at their circular, and the interesting thing is, they appear to have no major corporate sponsors. You’d think they’d be able to get some major soft drink or beer. Who doesn’t like washing down a plate of garlicked pasta with a cold mug of hefeweizen? Or a giant garlic pizza and a Pepsi?
At the very least, you’d expect this would be a natural place for a big corporate endorsement by Listerine. Listerine, the company with one of the weirdest advertising slogans of all time: “If it’s burning you know its working”.
Sounds like an advertisement for a social disease.
In any event, you’d think Listerine would have sent spies down to scope out that action faster than you can say dragonbreath.
Hey, there’s an idea, Olympia has the dragonboat competition. Chehalis could have the dragonbreath competition. And it’s a natural too. Because what is the other place Chehalis is famous for? The Chehalis Mint factory.
Hmm...Garlic Fest and Mint factory. Coincidence, or very clever marketing?
But the best part is Garlic Fest’s famous garlic cuisine. I loved looking at the list of garlic offerings on the circular. The problem is they mixed in the regular food with the garlic stuff and so your mind just naturally assumes that it’s garlic-infested too.
They got “garlic corn on the cob,” “garlic fries,” “garlic rosemary funnel cakes,” and then they list “fudge.” Yum. Garlic fudge.
They then list “waffle cones and sundaes” and you think aha, no garlic there, and then they list “garlic ice cream.” Eeyew.
Tongue cramp.
I especially like it when they list “garlic kettle corn” and “garlic donuts” and then list “shaved ice.” Mmm Mmm, that’s got to be a treat. Garlic shaved ice.
Shaved ice. I always wonder about that. Was the ice hairy to begin with?
Maybe adding garlic is an improvement.
America, ya gotta love it.