Mushroom Mardi Gras

Well diary, today was the Mushroom Mardi Gras in Morgan Hill. Despite its name, there was nary a mushroom to be found in the entire festival. There were several other poisons peddled by the food demons who have apparently been let out of Hell for the weekend to supplement their meagre incomes earned by jabbing sinners in the ass with pitchforks during the week and on bank holidays.

Overnight the streets of Morgan Hill became a veritable gauntlet of fatty food booths. The air was rent with the sound of spitting oil fom the hundreds of overworked deep fat fryers. What appeared to be fog was actually smoke from BBQ's laden with red meat and pork cracklins.

Despite many overwhelming temptations,I was able to circumvent the funnel cakes and chocolate dipped marshmallows (Lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil!). The demon selling a cone of a hundred tiny freshly made douhgnuts was also invited to take a hike. As far as the cotton candy man, A simple "Get thee behind me" was adequate and I walked through the valley of fat unscathed. I did succumb, however, after a day of hard slogging and much work. The Kettle Korn lady was beckoning and I thought to myself "Just one......BAG!" Ok, so I scarfed down a bag but in my defense, it was a small bag and I was quite hungry. In fact, on the triage list of diet sins, Kettle Korn is hardly "mortal" and really rates down there with eating an extra banana or in my case, 5 or 6 extra bananas. Nonetheless, one can always console oneself by saying "it could have been worse".

Ok so it is a bit of embroidery. There probably were not "hundreds' of deep fat fryers. But the dangers of the choclate dipped marshmallows were real. One could just imagine the pancreatic meltdown that would occur after one ill advised bite. In any case it was a very enjoyable day. In life and especially in festivals one must pick one's dietary battles and as long as we confess our sins right after we commit them I think that lets us off the hook. This works out great because it is DINNER TIME!
Till next time Diary!