apple butter frolic

[pianistimo]

well, if you didn't believe it until now - people are just a wee bit strange here in pennsylvania.  there are now continuous shuttle busses taking people to this celebration of 19th century pennsylvania german living.  activities include:  bee keeping, blacksmithing, timberframing, corn binding with horses, corn shelling with a dog-powered treadmill.  children can make corn-husk dolls, play old-fashioned games, jump in a pile of hay, watch small farm animals, ride on a horse-drawn wagon, crawl through tunnels in straw bales.

i think garrison keeler would make himself right at home here.  i think he should come to an apple butter frolic.

[pianistimo]

and you thought it was mud wrestling in apple butter.

oh.  i forgot to mention.  there is fresh pennsylvania german food available.  ie apple pie, scrapple (you can never find this anywhere else), cherry pie, apple dumplings, funnel cake, and sausage sandwiches.

[ada]

well, if you didn't believe it until now - people are just a wee bit strange here in pennsylvania.  there are now continuous shuttle busses taking people to this celebration of 19th century pennsylvania german living.  activities include:  bee keeping, blacksmithing, timberframing, corn binding with horses, corn shelling with a dog-powered treadmill.  children can make corn-husk dolls, play old-fashioned games, jump in a pile of hay, watch small farm animals, ride on a horse-drawn wagon, crawl through tunnels in straw bales.

i think garrison keeler would make himself right at home here.  i think he should come to an apple butter frolic.

OMG pianistimo I was just thinking that sounds really Amish. And of course you are in Amish country aren't you? PA? Are you Amish? Do you know any? What are they like?

Are you near that school? Where that terrible thing happened?

[thalbergmad]

Are you Amish?

She is Amish and here is the picture to prove it

[pianistimo]

you have mistaken me for my neighbor.  actually, he used to be amish.  i don't know what he is now.  i think he still is because he gardens every spare moment.  they have beautiful gardens.  btw, i think that one guy put a bad name on the amish. 

the quilt making is out-of-this-world.  the detail.  centuries of tradition, i guess.  if you drive around here - you can see that cemetaries are all important in pa., too.  and, of course, historic places (as with valley forge).

but, if you need no more incentive than a cheese steak hoagie and someone to root for the eagles football team (people are CRAZY about eagles here and put eagles on their cars and hats and - well, if you don't wear an eagle or put a flag outside your house - you are a nobody).  girls who wear eagles t-shirts have guys hanging out the car - and the car horns beep five times. 

[thalbergmad]

Hmmm, American Football eh.

It takes 4 hours to play a 1 hour match, you have more referees than players and commercial breaks every 20 seconds.

Strange game.

I take it you have an Eagles t shirt.

Thal

[paris]

She is Amish and here is the picture to prove it

thal, if i recall corectly,that was my picture

now i feel offended a bit

 

[thalbergmad]

thal, if i recall corectly,that was my picture

now i feel offended a bit

 

I will remove it when i get my mac back, my little Croatian Cutie.

Thal

[arensky]

and you thought it was mud wrestling in apple butter.

 scrapple (you can never find this anywhere else),

Jones Farm sells it frozen in blocks, it's at the store down the street in the specialty freezer 2,000 miles from Lancaster County and am I glad!    I eat it for breakfast or lunch at least once a week, yum yum it's much better than sausage. 

BTW this is what Charlie Parker was immortalizing in "Scrapple from the Apple", he had a good breakfast one morning in NYC.

[pianistimo]

hmm.  ok.  i guess scrapple is sold elsewhere.  well, the cheese is pretty good here in pa, too.  if you ever come to pa - order onion soup.  they put a pile of mozarella on it - and it tastes sooo good.  btw, i believe that scrapple must be good, too!