Round Top Library Chili Cookoff - Round Top Texas

As all of you know I married way, way, way UP!!!!! I am not sure why a fine upstanding, highly educated, beautiful woman, with proper etiquette, grace and manners would ever marry a redneck from the creek, but a blind squirrel finds a nut occasionally. I am one lucky blind squirrel. You also know if Momma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. So once in a while I have to come out of the crick, clean up a little bit and go do some classy activity with the wifey. I do have to say that I do have the wifey liking dirt track racing (Sprint Cars, etc.) so I have made some progress myself.

This weekend was one of those times where I sacrificed myself to give the wifey some classy fun. I made arrangements for a 3 day weekend shopping trip to Round Top, Texas. I have been told that Round Top is one amazing place two times a year. Round Top has a population of about 90. But in two weeks in April and two weeks in October (I think), the place becomes a Canton Texas on steroids. The main difference is that everything sold is high dollar. The rest of the year there are almost as many shops to shop in as there are residents. So even in January there is a lot to look at, handle, drop (then buy), etc. The wifey was in hog heaven. I even threw in a side trip to Columbus, Texas for additional shopping. Their advertisement indicated they had over 60 shops. After getting there, that 60 includes Walmart, Brookshires, hardware stores, Tractor Supply, etc. After eliminating all the places I would go in, there were 4 or 5 places to shop in. But that still made the wifey happy.

As we arrived in Round Top on Friday, the first sign I read was a sign for a Chili Cookoff on Saturday. Of course I was immediately on a mission to find out the details. This looks very promising. The wifey being the loving wife she is, also immediately said we needed to go to the cookoff on Saturday. You can't beat that girl. On Saturday, at lunch time, we did the dos e do over to the Stone Cellar where the cookoff was being held. There were more than 90 cars in the parking lot. This is a big deal. We paid $10.00 each for all the chili we could eat. They gonna lose some money here. It is my personal desire to make em pay. I am told I have been to one chili cookoff at my church years ago, but I don't remember anything about it, so for my memory sake, this was my first. I would guess there were 25 to 30 entrants. The entrants were businesses, junior class at the high school, chili cookoff teams, families, etc. We had to pick one entrant as the winner. This is much harder than you think and I will do it different next time. The first sample of chili we had was some powerful good chili. Very spicey!!!! Man we got a winner here and I hadn't tried any others. The wifey and I went to about 15 of the entrants then took a break and drank a Diet Coke and listened to some girl performing country and western songs. It looks like she might be famous down in those parts. After a brief rest, we resumed and went back and tried about 10 more entrants chili. Here is what I learned. After the first one, the rest were not as spicey (or at least it seemed). They were all pretty good. A little different here and there, but I would take any of them as a covered dish to the next church social. Finally I had to vote, but first I wanted to go back and retry the first one as I thought I should compare them after eating all the rest. It was just run of the mill chili. Here is a lesson for you, before you go to a chili cookoff, figure out how to cleanse your pallet between entrants. This way you will have a better chance to pick the best chili. I did go ahead and voted for Round Top Home Builders chili. To top the event off, one of the booths was also serving a cup of Blue Bell Ice Cream. So you know, I went and got me some ice cream for the road.

The cookoff had some good looking silent auction items available to bid on. I am sure this is a good fund raiser for the library and I am also sure they need the help. Overall, I really enjoyed the chili cookoff, the chili was great, the people very friendly and entertaining. Just a good ole time.

So if you are gonna have to take your gal to Round Top for some shopping go in the middle of January and checkout the chili cookoff.

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Mitcho
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