John the Greek

The state fair may have been cancelled, but apparently that hasn't deterred many of the food vendors who have set themselves up along one of the roads leading into Bloomsburg.  We received intelligence of this on Thursday and on Friday acted on it swiftly and decisively, like some kind of gastronomic US marines.  We battled the conditions - twenty minutes standing in driving rain, plus an indignant man behind us who abused the staff because they didn't accept credit cards - but it was worth it in the end.

We picked John the Greek as it seemed well patronised.  We both ordered a gyro (which is a bit like a doner kebab, but from the other side of the Aegean) and shared some stuffed vine leaves (which I believe are called dolmades, but since that belief is based entirely on a sketch from the first season of A Bit of Fry and Laurie could well be wrong).  I've become particularly partial to the vine leaves since trying them earlier this year on Long Island, and since we don't really have any Greek places around here I wasn't going to let the opportunity pass without indulging again.

Mrs Walles also got dessert.  Now, for some people just cheesecake alone is good enough, but not for fair-going Pennsylvanians, it seems.  What's better than cheesecake?  Why frozen cheesecake dipped in chocolate, of course.  And what's better than frozen chocolate-dipped cheesecake?  Frozen chocolate-dipped cheesecake on a stick! (Keep up!).  In fact all manner of frozen chocolate-covered items on a stick were available.  I was a bit dubious, which is why I didn't order anything myself, but after trying Mrs Walles's I know to get one myself next time.

We beat a hasty retreat home to eat, before we dissolved in the rain.  It was getting dark so we couldn't see if there were any vendors of more traditional fair fare, like funnel cake or those apple dumplings that everyone recommends, but we'll probably get another opportunity to look later in the week.  There's hope yet of getting some fair dinkum fair food.