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Today was the first time I'd ever gone to an "Oktoberfest" and ended up eating lousy Chinese food.
You see, the boy toy found a Web page for an event called Oktoberfest up in the Kentlands area of Gaithersburg. Since we both enjoy ethnic food and ethnic festivals, we thought it would be a cool thing to attend.
Kentlands, for anyone who's never heard of it, is a humongous New Urbanism development filled with perfectly manicured townhomes, expensive shops, and companies like AstraZeneca. To get to the food and beer area, we had to walk down several streets filled with pop-up tents full of people hawking stuff, from solar panels to local candidates (I live in the next county over). The music was mostly local groups playing covers of pop and rock songs. When we finally got to the food court, only half the vendors were offering anything that sounded vaguely German, and those had HUGE lines for food. Boy toy and I were really hungry for a late lunch, so we ended up caving and going to a Chinese food cart. The egg rolls were OK, but the lo mein was greasy and the boy toy despised the chicken on a stick. At least we got to listen to some Bavarian polkas while we were eating.
So the boy toy pronounced the event the lamest Oktoberfest he'd ever been too -- "it's more like the Yuppie State Fair," he said. I suggested that tomorrow night we make our own German meal with the brats we bought a couple of days ago, plus sauteed cabbage and potato pancakes. And in the future we'll try to attend the real ethnic festivals.
You see, the boy toy found a Web page for an event called Oktoberfest up in the Kentlands area of Gaithersburg. Since we both enjoy ethnic food and ethnic festivals, we thought it would be a cool thing to attend.
Kentlands, for anyone who's never heard of it, is a humongous New Urbanism development filled with perfectly manicured townhomes, expensive shops, and companies like AstraZeneca. To get to the food and beer area, we had to walk down several streets filled with pop-up tents full of people hawking stuff, from solar panels to local candidates (I live in the next county over). The music was mostly local groups playing covers of pop and rock songs. When we finally got to the food court, only half the vendors were offering anything that sounded vaguely German, and those had HUGE lines for food. Boy toy and I were really hungry for a late lunch, so we ended up caving and going to a Chinese food cart. The egg rolls were OK, but the lo mein was greasy and the boy toy despised the chicken on a stick. At least we got to listen to some Bavarian polkas while we were eating.
So the boy toy pronounced the event the lamest Oktoberfest he'd ever been too -- "it's more like the Yuppie State Fair," he said. I suggested that tomorrow night we make our own German meal with the brats we bought a couple of days ago, plus sauteed cabbage and potato pancakes. And in the future we'll try to attend the real ethnic festivals.
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Date: 2015-10-12 07:34 pm (UTC)From: