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[W:8]Pimento Cheese Festival

roguenuke

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I'm going to a Pimento Cheese Festival today. This is weird but something to do.


My MIL wants to try donuts with pimento cheese frosting. I just want to get out and do something and normally these things expand to a little beyond their stated theme.

2025 Pimento Cheese Festival | Downtown Cary Park

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There's a pimento cheese sculpting contest.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.Pimento Cheese Sculpting Contest – Sign up for Heat 1 or Heat 2Great Lawn Pavilion
 
roguenuke said:
I'm going to a Pimento Cheese Festival today. This is weird but something to do.


My MIL wants to try donuts with pimento cheese frosting. I just want to get out and do something and normally these things expand to a little beyond their stated theme.

2025 Pimento Cheese Festival | Downtown Cary Park

downtowncarypark.com downtowncarypark.com

There's a pimento cheese sculpting contest.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.Pimento Cheese Sculpting Contest – Sign up for Heat 1 or Heat 2Great Lawn Pavilion
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I can think of better things to do...one of which involves a rod and reel.
 
Wow, what an odd yet enticing festival!

I'd definitely go! Who doesn't like pimentos and cheese!! ☺️ I wouldn't mind trying that donut either!
 
So, lots of food trucks, most of them had at least one dish available made with pimento cheese (including the ice cream truck and the cheese cake van). Several wine trucks/tables from local breweries (Cary has a lot of little breweries, they're bougie). They also had tshirts for sale and a band playing.

In the middle of the park there were several different tables setup with free samples of various pimento cheese spreads, and then each generally sold their pimento cheese and maybe some other things like pickled peppers (got some of those), breads/pastries (MIL picked up some bread), and one table had dog treats. Not very big, very busy though by the time we left (stayed about an hour). Not a bad time.

Tried the pimento cheese donuts. They were mini donuts with a pimento cheese icing drizzled on them. They were interesting, lots of flavors. The donuts were the really good soft, light ones with the flaky outside.
 
roguenuke said:
I'm going to a Pimento Cheese Festival today. This is weird but something to do.


My MIL wants to try donuts with pimento cheese frosting. I just want to get out and do something and normally these things expand to a little beyond their stated theme.

2025 Pimento Cheese Festival | Downtown Cary Park

downtowncarypark.com downtowncarypark.com

There's a pimento cheese sculpting contest.

2 p.m. – 3 p.m.Pimento Cheese Sculpting Contest – Sign up for Heat 1 or Heat 2Great Lawn Pavilion
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Oh I would go! Pimento cheese was not a "thing" when I was growing up but I've seen it on a lot of the southern cooking shows and Pioneer Woman.

I'd probably want it much hotter but I bet they have a lot of varieties at a festival like that. But when it comes to adding peppers/chilis of any kind, I like heat.
 
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I love folksy festivals based around local products. They're always fun. I've been to a bunch of them and have been involved in the entertainment portion for several.
 
Helix said:
I love folksy festivals based around local products. They're always fun. I've been to a bunch of them and have been involved in the entertainment portion for several.
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This one is tempting me:

www.muskokamaple.com

Home | Muskoka Maple Festival

The Muskoka Maple Festival is a family friendly event that celebrates the culmination of the maple harvest in Muskoka.
www.muskokamaple.com www.muskokamaple.com
 
Lursa said:
Oh I would go! Pimento cheese was not a "thing" when I was growing up but I've seen it on a lot of the southern cooking shows and Pioneer Woman.

I'd probably want it much hotter but I bet they have a lot of varieties at a festival like that. But when it comes to adding peppers/chilis of any kind, I like heat.
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I was raised in NC so I honestly never thought about it not being a thing. I like pimento cheese and adding hot peppers to it can be good, although I prefer flavor to heat. At least one didn't do the heat well as it didn't mesh with the flavor, but from the bakery was really good, really creamy and a little spicy.

A number of the samples we tried were spicy and one of the jars of pickled peppers I got was spicy too.

We ended up though stopping for Carolina BBQ to bring back to my kids/husband for lunch/dinner (they didn't come). Total NC/Southern food day today.
 
ASHES said:
This one is tempting me:

www.muskokamaple.com

Home | Muskoka Maple Festival

The Muskoka Maple Festival is a family friendly event that celebrates the culmination of the maple harvest in Muskoka.
www.muskokamaple.com www.muskokamaple.com
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That looks good. Syrup tends to be a bit too sweet for me normally, but if I have any, it's going to be maple syrup (I was raised on the artificial stuff and really can't take it any more).
 
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