Fine Dining Without Class: Taste of Chicago

Do you have tons of extra spending money?  

Do you have so much class,

that you raise your pinky when you drink a soda?  

If you answered no to both of those questions then you are ready to enjoy fine dining - without class!


On an overcast Saturday in July, Chicken, Ashes, Mr. Ashes, Momma C, and I went to the Taste of Chicago in. . .  well. . . Chicago.


It was a long drive.  We went past the windmills.

Made a pit stop at our favorite candy store.

And before too long we were there. . . Chicago!

Chicago had so many interesting things to see!


Chicken: So many buildings!

Ashes: So many people & people walking dogs!

Bo: And so many pigeons!!  They were huge!  I never realized how big these guys are and they come in just about ever color!

Ashes: They're rats with wings, Bo.
Bo: But they're so cute!  Does anyone have any bread?
Chicken: Rats. With. Wings.
Bo: Whatever.  Lets move onto the food.


Oh, the food!  They had just about everything!  There were so many good things to choose from; so we tried just about everything!


Bo:  Plus, the air smelled like Rally's french fries.
Ashes: Food tickets were 12 for $8.00 and most of the foods cost 5 tickets or more; although some were only 3 tickets.
Chicken:  They had 2 sizes of the foods to try; you could either have a full size entree or a 'taste size'.  We mostly got 'taste sized' portions and shared; this way we could try just about everything. 

We tried. . .

toasted ravioli

award winning bruchetta

real Chicago pizza

foot long corndogs

chocolate covered strawberries

crab rangoon

potstickers

buffalo style wings

chocolate fudge

vanilla churros

gourmet fries with parmisian cheese

chocolate covered frozen bananas

and so much more.

Ashes: Yea, we were totally stuffed!
Chicken: And drenched too!  It started to down pour a couple times when we were there.  
Bo: I was amazed at the length people went to to get out of the rain.


They ran into the port-a-potties

They hid under food trailers

They made mini umbrella cities

They stole umbrellas off of the picnic tables

And some even tied ponchos up in the trees.

After the Taste Momma C took us on a tour of the city.

Thank goodness Momma C was there!
She knew everything about the city; it's history, landmarks, and most importantly- how to navigate the big city.  She took us on an amazing tour of the city!


Bo: I learned so much and I'm so grateful that she volunteered to drive.  I may have eventually made it to the city, but I never would have found my way home!

Overall Food Rating:
Bo: I give the food at the taste it 5 sporks out of 5: for variety of food and friendly people
and
2 dirty napkins because the air smelled so heavily of Rally's french fries even though there were no Rally's to be seen- anywhere.  The second dirty napkin is for the fact that only 2 stands even bothered to hand out napkins; luckily we had the rain to wash off our hands.  


Chicken: I give it 5 sporks out of 5 for variety and quality of food.  I give the it 2 dirty napkins for terrible weather (many downpours) and really really long lines.


Ashes:  I'm glad we went, it's definitely something everyone needs to do at least once in their life.

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