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There once was a thing called “Meatopia” (If I was a radio DJ I would be punctuating with air horn blasts the spaces between paragraphs, so imagine one sounding off now if you will.)
Don’t believe the hype. DON”T BELIEVE THE HYPE. I’m speaking for the little guy here. If you read a good thing about this farcical festival of food, you read an untruth.
Mista Bee buzzin with a review of the first annual “Meatopia” a so called food festival.
You’ve never seen a bee, a little flying bee, wait in a line of people to get some food before have ya? But wait I did in several lines, waiting for a meaty morsel patiently, waiting waiting, and then as each food vendor ran out of food, you read that right, (food vendors out of food?) I was told along with all the people in line waiting “sorry we’re out of food.”
As each of the 30 “Meatopia” food vendors ran out, so on it went each line getting longer, and before a taste of food the vendor would inform the line “sorry all out.”
For two and a half hours I waited and was not fed a scrap. The bullshit of it all was the food was pre-paid for, I’d paid 45$ for 6 tastes. I thought innocently “Meatopia…six tastes…hamburger…hotdog..ribs…pulled pork…lamb…maybe some meat i’d never tried like rabbit?Yumms! I’d bought a ticket online and I showed up hungry and with 3-4 hours left of this so called Meatopia. I expected to eat, heck I’d spent 45$, anybody living in Cleveland can feed their two kids for a week on that much cash. TRUE.
I’d say there was a hell and I was in it if I wasn’t a bumble bee.
Sad and Hungry, if it was Meatopia I’d witnessed the fall of it.
Final notes, I’d like to say damn Meatopia’s creators, kiss my bee hind now and in the next years to come jerks, and I’d also like to thank Meatopia for ruining my afternoon. lucky I don’t sting ya.
Classy.
I ate these chips over a year ago!!! I even went thru the trouble of scanning the bags!! But the flavor is memorable!! I’ll never forget….
Grippo’s Hot Dill Pickle potato chips, I ate these chips in Cincinnati on a trip with Peter Van Hyning and Nick Pinkerton. Nick says these are native to the Cincinnati region, and I believe him. These are awesome. It’s about 50/50 powdered dill flavoring and flaming hot flavoring, but more on the Utz end of things, as opposed to Lay’s.
Herr’s Ketchup chips are my favorite chips right now. There is an awesome MSG aftertaste, which compliments the tomato powder very well. Eating too fast will give you an MSG buzz. Compliments beer and cheeseburgers. They also nailed the lycopene flavoring here as well.
Smith’s Bacon Flavour Fries are pretty amazing. First of all, it’s shaped like a Sun Chip, which I guess mimics the the wavy form of bacon. Secondly, the chips are processed like Pringles, except the potato texture is COARSE instead of smooth the way Pringles are. It gave the chips a Munchos quality without the bubbles. And the bacon flavoring is closer to Bacos than bacon. Oh, and when you buy a small bag, there are 6 chips in the bag!!
This happened June 26th, 2010. These photos have been sitting in my camera for a little while now, which is great because it was able to preserve this memory for me! So apparently according to these photos, I remembered that I hosted the Jell-o Mold Design Competition at the Gowanus Studio Space. I got to eat all the jell-o I ever wanted to eat, and there were some awesome ones and also some that looked really crazy! Jello is crazy because you can make it look and taste however you want, and what makes it jello is the fact that it is jiggly, and flavored, and molded. I had a great time!!!!
Here are a few that I ate there:
Apple pie, everything here was jello, even the crust. This contestant made velvet cake and the pink coconut donut as well. These tasted awesome, and I’m pretty sure they won the Flavor Award as well.
This sushi was made with agar agar. Someone always pulls out the agar agar at the jello competition, and nine times out of ten they are asian and they know what they are talking about. This sushi was fruity and refreshing without the horse hoof aftertaste.
Tiles. These were awesomely sugary.
I can’t lie, didn’t eat these oysters, which were oyster and beer flavored? I pussied out.
I didn’t eat these either.
There were a few people really into this Pill theme.
This is classic. These were surprisingly pleasurably bitter as well because of it setting in the rind.
These CUPS were made of JELLO.
Not sure….
I can’t remember what this tasted like!! It was weeks ago!!
I was a little psyched on these really crazy tray presentations.
And CORN!! hahaha!! This person probably wins the WTF award, with their corn light bulb chandelier. The jellos here were deliciously savory.
This was the GRAND PRIZE winner this year. These bloody virgin mary’s were actually very strong in Vodka flavor as well. The flavor is unforgettably a solidified well-crafted bloody mary.
More pills…
I was really psyched on this as well and would probably win second place in the WTF category. These are inspired by the boobtacular turd processing plant in Greenpoint!! The flavor was a very pleasant raspberry vanilla.
This is supposed to depict the recent oil spill disaster.
This depicts something really crazy.
These crafty contestants made a Tiffany Lamp. The metal part is gum paste.
These trophy heads were my second favorite next to the bloody mary’s in the flavor category. It’s pork flavored and beef flavored. They tasted just like refrigerated pho broth.
These were the cute ribbons the winners took home. Congratulations!!!
I ate these cookies the other day, they were so wild!! I bought them at the Asian Convenient store on 3rd Ave and 11th St. They were tiny crunchy chicken drumsticks, or rather a thin veneer of a breaded baked drumstick. Hollow in the middle. The flavor most closely resembles the exteriors of Totino’s Pizza Rolls. Seems a little absurd that “chicken in a biskit” crackers are not as literal as these.
