Volunteering and Wishing I Tasted the Cornbread
I love to volunteer! I do so as much as my free time permits especially at food and beverage events. What can I say, I am a foodie. This particular event was a chili and cornbread cook off in my local community as a Main Street fundraiser. As a Board Member, I volunteered to work the admission table. It was a great spot to see the crowd and smell the lovely aroma of all the great chili. I had skipped breakfast to have room to pig out on all the chili and cornbread selections. My stomach was growling in anticipation.
I arrived early to set up. However, the crowd was waiting. The crowded was big and hungry for the lunchtime event. In fact, it was the groups first year and the turn out was fantastic thanks to great marketing and payments on Eventbrite. There was numerous local vendors offering chili, volunteers offering theirs favorite homemade cornbread, hot dogs with condiments, local small batch breweries offering beer, and the organization offering water, soda, wine, other alcohol beverages. There was even music, game for the children, and a hot pepper competition. There was fun for everybody.
I worked the table as long as I could, about 1 hour, until the savory smell was too much. I needed to taste the food. Because the crowd would not let up and I was a Board Member, I sent another volunteer to get me a sample of everything. She came back with a dry hot dog, one cup of chili, a small bottle of water and no cornbread. When I looked at what she brought back, I asked her where was the cornbread. She told me sadly that the cornbread was GONE. It was sold out in less than a hour!.
I was so disappointed! I knew the Executive Director of the Main Street made a cornbread that would make you smack your mother. Cooking is her hobby and she does it very, very well. I had it before at her home and took a doggie bag home. It was homemade with corn, cheese, jalapenos, and cheddar cheese. I wanted to taste it again. But, no luck. To make matters worse, other volunteers tasted it and raved about it. It was ranked the best by the almost everybody.
Although sadden about the cornbread, I was later able to make my rounds on what food that was left which wasn't much. Clearly, the vendors had not estimated the crowd. I was able to taste a few of the chili cups (mostly not good, I could make better chili), eat couple hot dogs with cheese, peppers and onions, and drink a lot of wine and beer.
The Main Street is planning to make this an annual event with more vendors making chili (better tasting - my dream) and hopefully more food especially CORNBREAD. I will be there volunteering but not at the beginning of the event. Instead, I will be do the clean up and spend most of the day eating cornbread and tasting several cups of chili before volunteering. Then, I will happily clean up on a full and satisfied stomach stuffed with cornbread and a full drink of my choice in my hand.
I arrived early to set up. However, the crowd was waiting. The crowded was big and hungry for the lunchtime event. In fact, it was the groups first year and the turn out was fantastic thanks to great marketing and payments on Eventbrite. There was numerous local vendors offering chili, volunteers offering theirs favorite homemade cornbread, hot dogs with condiments, local small batch breweries offering beer, and the organization offering water, soda, wine, other alcohol beverages. There was even music, game for the children, and a hot pepper competition. There was fun for everybody.
I worked the table as long as I could, about 1 hour, until the savory smell was too much. I needed to taste the food. Because the crowd would not let up and I was a Board Member, I sent another volunteer to get me a sample of everything. She came back with a dry hot dog, one cup of chili, a small bottle of water and no cornbread. When I looked at what she brought back, I asked her where was the cornbread. She told me sadly that the cornbread was GONE. It was sold out in less than a hour!.
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I was so disappointed! I knew the Executive Director of the Main Street made a cornbread that would make you smack your mother. Cooking is her hobby and she does it very, very well. I had it before at her home and took a doggie bag home. It was homemade with corn, cheese, jalapenos, and cheddar cheese. I wanted to taste it again. But, no luck. To make matters worse, other volunteers tasted it and raved about it. It was ranked the best by the almost everybody.
Although sadden about the cornbread, I was later able to make my rounds on what food that was left which wasn't much. Clearly, the vendors had not estimated the crowd. I was able to taste a few of the chili cups (mostly not good, I could make better chili), eat couple hot dogs with cheese, peppers and onions, and drink a lot of wine and beer.
The Main Street is planning to make this an annual event with more vendors making chili (better tasting - my dream) and hopefully more food especially CORNBREAD. I will be there volunteering but not at the beginning of the event. Instead, I will be do the clean up and spend most of the day eating cornbread and tasting several cups of chili before volunteering. Then, I will happily clean up on a full and satisfied stomach stuffed with cornbread and a full drink of my choice in my hand.
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