I've been curious for ages now about the local Sunshine Hill Garlic Festival and yesterday evening we sated that curiosity by attending and spending.

We had our dinner of garlicky goodness. I had a garlic filled hot dog, then for dessert bought a sample of garlic ice cream. It's not gross! It kind of reminds me a bit of a garlic alfredo sauce and shrimp scampi sauce. The cream of the ice cream blends well with the garlic, so it's like eating food only without the noodles or shrimp. It's not something you could eat a large serving of, I'm sure. I also bought a stick of deep-fried garlic. It had a salty batter and it was actually very good.

Somehow we bought a bottle of garlic seasoning for mushrooms, and I got my sister some garlic stuffed green olives soaked in chardonnay. I'm hoping she'll like them. I ate free samples of picked garlic. Pickled garlic is wonderful.

Ending our binge was a whole loaf of garlic bread. My tongue and mouth still feels assaulted by garlic. But it's a good assault.

Now I am curious to attend other local garlic festivals. I see there is one in June out on the ocean where people dress as garlic bulbs and dance. It touts over 80 vendors. Imagine all of the food! Yes, I know what I'll be wanting to do next year: visit as many garlic fests as our budget and time allow.