REPORT FROM THE BURLINGTON, WISCONSIN, CHOCOLATE FEST
They have pulled out all the stops.
Here's Miss Burlington Area ChocolateFest and some other beauty queens.
There was also a chocolate-eating contest.
Also people carving humongous things of chocolate (known, technically, as "things of chocolate").
Also there were games of skill.
Makin' fun of the cheeseheads again I see... Well, at least it's chocolate this time instead of mass drunkenness.
FYI, long before Wal-mart sold cocoa mulch, gardeners used to swarm the Hershey's plant once a year for cocoa shells. It was pretty much unknown elsewhere. I get a load every year and for a few days my garden smells like Willy Wonka's.
Posted by: padraig | May 28, 2016 at 05:35 PM
Don't forget to bring your Blackening Ticket.
Posted by: AmoebaStampede | May 28, 2016 at 05:36 PM
p.s. Tony Romo will be crowning the Chocolate Queen. Or not. If he's around, maybe.
Posted by: padraig | May 28, 2016 at 05:36 PM
Omword a chocolate festival and queen too. Well I am glad to know that the compost area is closed. Funny
Posted by: Theresa | May 28, 2016 at 05:50 PM
It looks like only vanilla people attend the chocolate festival.....
Posted by: 655321 | May 28, 2016 at 09:06 PM
What kind of festival do they have in the town where they make Prep H ?
Posted by: Clankie | May 28, 2016 at 10:53 PM
Clankie : A CrapFest?
Posted by: ImNotDave | May 29, 2016 at 07:23 AM
Or maybe Roid-A-Rama.
Posted by: ImNotDave | May 29, 2016 at 10:34 AM
I saw Things of Chocolate open for ... no, wait, that was Vanilla Fudge. Sorry.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | May 29, 2016 at 10:38 AM
Just a bunch of fudge packers.
Posted by: Lonoko | May 29, 2016 at 01:25 PM
A chocolate fest would seem to be an ideal place for finding companionship of the lady variety. It's a week long, for heaven's sake.
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | May 29, 2016 at 06:31 PM
Lonoko: Packing for the local candy company?
Posted by: PirateBoy | May 29, 2016 at 08:20 PM
Where is Ray Nagin now that we need him?
Posted by: Steve | May 29, 2016 at 09:47 PM
What? No cornhole championships? I love the South.
Posted by: kmsmncm | May 29, 2016 at 09:48 PM
Thank PirateBoy, I wish I saw this educational movie when I was a boy....
Posted by: Qaz | May 30, 2016 at 09:14 AM
Burlington isn't far from Delavan, where Andes Candies mints are made. Milwaukee has enough chocolate makers that sometimes you smell that instead of beer as you drive by. Basically, anywhere you find Bavarians you'll find beer and chocolate.
Posted by: Allen at Divison | May 30, 2016 at 12:44 PM