Nottingham's famous spectacle, Goose Fair, starts
tonight and I for one won't be braving the rides, wimp that I am! All
that frantic spinning and whizzing round would have me throwing up me
lunch before I could say Helter Skelter and where's me toffee apple
gone?
Nottingham's very own Goosey!
However I could be tempted to the Forest
recreation ground for some fairground nosh. Bring on the crunchy brandy
snaps, the Grantham gingerbread or a sugary bag of hot sticky
doughnuts, terribly messy but delightfully naughty and moreish. Of course these
days amongst the multi-coloured sticks of candy floss and rock; the
dubiously named Cocks on a Stick and traditional fish and chips and
ubiquitous mushy peas in mint sauce sit a myriad of burger styles,
chips and curry sauces and Chinese noodles. I don't know about you but I can
always manage to slop half the food down my front without even
realising amongst the hustle and bustle of the dark and flashy fairground crowds! And
nobody tells you! Do they? You only find out when you get home and switch on
the kitchen light to reveal a winter coat coated in food stains and stuck on noodle. Suddenly you are your pet dog or cat's best mate. Slurp slurp! Never have you been so popular.
I've usually had a lovely time at fairs like Goose Fair watching the
punters scream their lungs out on the glitzy and tawdry scary rides; I've heard the girls of
all shapes and sizes giggle and shriek; witnessed the blokes showing
off, swigging beer and preening and have secretly laughed as some
bonny lass has tried to negotiate the wet and increasingly muddy
fairground fields in now, not so white, stilettos. The ground behind her looks like a city of earth worms have come up to the surface for a nose around and changed their minds.
So what do you love to eat at the fair? Have you got any sharable fairground stories? Do leave a
comment. I'd love to hear your stories.
A GOOSE FAIR link for anyone planning to visit the fair this year
