This is just a little quick note before my body says cheers for the day and I collapse. Because after last night I have been reduced to rubble! RUBBLE! What has come of my life?
Last night we went to this Good Food and Wine Show thing, after getting our tickets for R25,95 by purchasing Marie Claire. Upon entrance we had to buy a wine glass for R20. So basically you are looking at R45,95 and you can, and will, drink as much wine as you like. I couldn’t actually function last night, but it was great. There were some weird things such as the name being “The Good Food and Wine Show” but in the bag they give you at the entrance, you get a packet of Royco Cottage Pie cook in sauce and a packet of ACE Instant Porridge. Not quite high class, but things at the CTICC are always a little funky.
Thanks to the guys at the pie stand, where I spent ther last 30 minutes or so of my visit. I was utterly utterly debauched and all the food that looked good needed to be paid for. I was not keen on paying for food, I wanted to do this on the cheap. So I sat at the pie stand just eating all the samples! I even made them cook more samples for me, they were like Gods to me last night. Thank you! The biltong on sale was delicious as well, get the biltong from the stand next to the tequila stand. It’s not dried out like most of the donkey meat we buy these days.
As I said earlier, I never took many photos but oddly enough I do have photos of the people from Piemans! Quite bizarre to say the least. I also have some of the mini tasting glasses from Paulaner in Cape Town. I don’t think I was supposed to take them home but I now have three in my house. Paulaner, if you want them, drop me an e-mail. It was quite a crisis last night, because there is no limit on how many wines you can taste. Considering that most of the stands pour you a very small amount, maybe a quarter of a glass at most, I must have tasted around 80 wines. Ballpark.
Photo 1
Photo 2. That’s all I took! I should be fired.
If you go on any one of the days, visit the NOMU stand and buy some of the NOMU tomato and chilli pesto mix, it’s awesome. I might also interview one of the exhibitors who has made a really cool wine rack. If I get round to the interview. Not right now I’m afraid, I’m on nuclear alert.
NOMU: Tasty
That’s it for now because it’s Friday and I’m not feeling too much love. Just picked up a rad order from the post office which I will tell you about in the new week.
BOOM!
P.S I’m going again tonight, see you all there! The show runs until Sunday, radness!
Sean Lloyd
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