BACK TO THE SEAFOOD FESTIVAL!
This year Miss Stoney and myself decided to go back to the Seafood Festival in Hampton New Hampshire. As you may remember from my blog on BBS last year you will know that this is one of those events that I definitely have a love/hate relationship with. The small coastal town of Hampton NH decides to hold an outdoor festival every year where they close down the strip and most of the local eating establishments and businesses will come out to represent themselves. The set up is nothing more than a few large tents with a few deep fryers and a couple of grills per station but they still manage to produce some pretty good food.
The main staples of the seafood fest are lobster rolls and chowder. They have plenty of other stuff there to try including sausage and peppers, lobster on a stick, lobster ravioli, crab cakes, fried ice cream, bloomin onions,the whole shebangabang etc. I have been going to this almost every year since I was a little guy so I know what to avoid and what not to. I know that one of the major places like Browns, Rays or Peteys will serve you a decent albeit small roll but the quality will be there. Having experience with these tents I know to stay away from some of the fancier items even tho they may look delicious. I was on the fence about this Tuna poke I saw at this smaller place so I decided to go with the elote instead. I think I made the right choice.
After going beast mode on some corn on the cob in public at 10am we made sure to try a lobster roll at the Browns seafood booth. Browns isn't anything special but they had a fire a couple weeks ago and it they lost a huge chunk of their summer business so I made sure to buy it there to support local business. They put out a pretty decent standard Lobster Roll.
In between checking out the food stands we made sure to visit the other main attraction at the Hampton Beach Seafood Festival; The MERCH VENDORS.
Lots of people talk about how trashy the "Jersey Shore" is but I don't think they could hold a candle to how trashy Hampton and the surrounding areas can get. It is like a mix of Jersey shore and that MTV show that got cancelled because the one of the kids died and the others couldn't stop going to jail. It might be the only place in the world where you will see a realtree/mossy oak sticker on a slammed honda civic.
T SHIRT GAME STRONG THO. If you want a dirty slogan T shirt or a just want to let the foreigners know what team you play for then this might be the place for you. The only hard part is getting through the awkward small talk with the Indian store owner as you buy a SLIGHTLY racist T shirt.
Don't forget to pick up one of these fidget spinners that you can spin, flick and apparently TOSS. No word on the return time once you chuck your spinner in the ocean but how could it be wrong when they put it right there on the banner.
Another MUST activity for the Seafood Fest is going to one of the old arcades and getting fleeced by the change machine. The most popular game is putting a 5 dollar bill into the change machine and then looking for someone that works there to fix it for you when it breaks.
I added this picture in just so everyone knows who the skeeball champ is/was. If Miss Stoney says she won then she is a fucking liar.
One of the last things I ate before I left was some Apple Crisp. Nothing better than some Apple Crisp with a little vanilla ice cream. GOAT fair/carnival/festival/dessert food.
DON'T FORGET TO PICK UP YOUR FELT SCARECROW ON THE WAY OUT!
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