Ohio 2011: West Side Market
You can't go to Cleveland without hitting the West Side Market. Every ethnic food is represented here, including world-famous gyros and falafel. I almost wept when I saw the piles of beautiful rhubarb, which you better believe I bought and pie'd up. But vegetables is not what I am bringing you in this photopost, no.
What the fuck is this?! This is the makings for a quadruple bypass! AND YET. ♥
Okay, this booth, Campbell's Popcorn Shop, had these little crank-machines for people to sample their different kinds of popcorn, including, as you can see, caramel, caramel-apple, cheddar and dill pickle popcorn, but the one that got me was called Dichotomy Popcorn, which they're famous for. It's caramel-cheddar, with some other flavors thrown in. I know. I KNOW. But it was FUCKING INCREDIBLE.
Dessert cannoli. Ten of each, please.
Justin's sister Amanda declared these were her favorite dessert: a poppyseed overload! Let's just hope she didn't have a drug screening the next day.
Grasshopper and key limes cheesecakes.
These were MY favorites. Oh God, I wish I was eatin' one right NOW...
Trending: bread as art.
I just can't leave without a photo of the adorable escargot.
Of note but not pictured: the Pirogi Palace, where we must've bought five dozen pirogies with various innards; a shop which exclusively sold apple-smoked things; and a shop specializing in all foods Irish, manned by the cutest fuckin' Irish boy I've ever seen (Kit, you woulda died).
Are you hungry yet?
What the fuck is this?! This is the makings for a quadruple bypass! AND YET. ♥
Okay, this booth, Campbell's Popcorn Shop, had these little crank-machines for people to sample their different kinds of popcorn, including, as you can see, caramel, caramel-apple, cheddar and dill pickle popcorn, but the one that got me was called Dichotomy Popcorn, which they're famous for. It's caramel-cheddar, with some other flavors thrown in. I know. I KNOW. But it was FUCKING INCREDIBLE.
Dessert cannoli. Ten of each, please.
Justin's sister Amanda declared these were her favorite dessert: a poppyseed overload! Let's just hope she didn't have a drug screening the next day.
Grasshopper and key limes cheesecakes.
These were MY favorites. Oh God, I wish I was eatin' one right NOW...
Trending: bread as art.
I just can't leave without a photo of the adorable escargot.
Of note but not pictured: the Pirogi Palace, where we must've bought five dozen pirogies with various innards; a shop which exclusively sold apple-smoked things; and a shop specializing in all foods Irish, manned by the cutest fuckin' Irish boy I've ever seen (Kit, you woulda died).
Are you hungry yet?