[CH] Dismal Fair...
danceswithcarp (dcombs@bloomington.in.us)
Tue, 27 Jul 1999 14:03:08 -0500 (EST)
Man, we wuz had at the local county fair. We put in some really pretty
peppers of about 15 differing stripes and only got about 7 or 8 blue
ribbons. No one got Grand Champ, but I'm still honked off. We picked
peppers the morning of the entry and spent two hours going through the
pickings getting three of everykind that were almost identical so we would
be showing consistency.
Naw....the judge had other idears. He gave blues to standard jalapenos of
all ilk--which we didn't enter because they are, um, passe--and gave us a
RED for some of the biggest and most beautiful cowhorn cayennes you've
ever seen. He also gave us RED for two sets of bigger-than-golfballs
Caribbean Red Habeneros that were mid-way ripened and were as shiny and as
colorful as any other exhibit in the entire building, and then he gave
someone else a blue for three itty-bitty orange habs with slick sides. We
had those big wrinkled Reds and both entries were three almost identically
wrinkled peppers. You couldn't have found more identical wrinkled peppers
if you'd looked all day.
I doubt the guy had ever seen anything like we were entering, so he
panicked and gave us reds rather than admit he didn't know diddly about
the product. We entered three identical, pale, almost transluscent,
mexibells as big as standard bells, labeled them as hot, and got a RED.
Then we entered three less-than-standard green bells and got a blue.
Meanwhile, chile-woman never gets asked to judge.
WE WANT CHILE-WOMAN; WE WANT CHILE-WOMAN; WE WANT SUE...
carp