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this last weekend was 'the peddler's fair' up here and we threw together a booth that sold chicken wings with my sauces (fire wings sauce, hot wings sauce, jamaican jerk sauce and citrus glaze sauce) on them .....we also sold iced tea, lemonade, sodas and water...

friday...amy's cousin, darcy, came up to help at the fair (thank God because we would have had a terrible time without her)...she didn't get up here until late afternoon...i spent the entire day with dave (my partner) getting the booth, tables, etc out of storage and the restaurant and getting them set up at our spot at the fair...darcy got up here a little after we were done and by that time i was home making the last batches of my sauces...then we all stayed up very late making signs and banners for the booth...i went to bed after 1 am and amy & darcy turned in about one and a half to 2 hours later....

saturday....up just after dawn darcy and i "carny upped" (our twist on 'cowboy up') and headed out to pick up the sauces and last minute stuff and then went to the booth....we got set up and waited for the customers to start buying....it didn't really happen and we were all disappointed...until the end of the day when lots of the other 'carnys'/vendors came to my booth saying that they had heard that i had the best wings...we made almost as much in the last hour as we had all day...we couldn't figure out what was wrong...so we decided that the words 'fire wings' must be scaring the potential customers away....

we made new signs that night....it was another very late night and then up and out by 7 am...

sunday...armed with new signs and some samples...we really sold a lot of wings...people went nuts for them....heck, the vendor next to me bought nearly 100 wings for himself during the 2 days....my sauces were a hit!!! lots and lots of people asked if was going to bottle them and sell them and were very happy that i am planning on opening a bbq restaurant up here...we got invites to a couple of other events scheduled for later this summer and in the fall (we are currently planning to do 2 more for sure and considering 3-4 others..).....in the end we managed to make enough to pay for all of our expenses and make a little profit (something many of the vendors near me didn't do)...all in all it was a great, fun and learning experience...

if you are in the market for a turkey fryer then i have to suggest checking out the bass pro shops fryer/steamer combo...it was only around 80 bucks and came with everything and then some...looks good and cooks beautifully!!! and above all is extremely stable...almost no way to trip it over or knock the pot off....i am really impressed with it!!!

my new slogan is ' Hey, let's talk sauce!!!'
...it got lot's of folks to come and try my wings and really helped the sales...

can't wait to do this again!!!



Michael...AKA King Daddy...