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Today continued the series of autumnal festivals my girlfriend and I are attempting to hit up as the long South Carolina summer turns to fall. I’ll write a full account of our trip to the Ridge Spring Harvest Festival and Clinton’s “Scots & Brats” next Saturday.
Tonight, I’d like to write briefly about a delicious treat that only exists in the fall: the candy apple.
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The Portly Politico 
[…] festivals (Subscribe Star subscribers will get the full story this Saturday, and read my ode to candy apples, which this same trip also inspired). My route took me north from Aiken through Ridge Spring, […]
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[…] Last weekend my girlfriend and I hit up a couple of festivals in western South Carolina, continuing our autumnal tour of festivals (which includes Aiken’s Makin’ and the Yemassee Shrimp Festival), the Ridge Spring Harvest Festival and Clinton’s Scots & Brats (a Scottish-German Oktoberfest). Here is a little travelogue about our visit to these festivals, and the small towns that host them. […]
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[…] “Candy Apples” – My paean to a typically autumnal fair food, the sticky, tart candy apple. We had some good ones last weekend. […]
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[…] about, I sometimes worry the blog is all risk and no reward. I don’t always write about comfortable topics (although I’m doing that more because it’s less contentious and more […]
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[…] …and, of course, candy apples. […]
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[…] smell of cut grass and sweat. Food tastes better in autumn, too. There’s a reason candy apples are an autumnal fair food: that thick, sugary, caramel coating wouldn’t last in the […]
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[…] The Virus, so it was good to get out and see throngs of people buying wooden bric-a-brac and eating fair food. Many festivals have been cancelled this year, or have seriously downsized (the Ridge Spring […]
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