Last weekend, San Mateo had it's Festa Italiana, a festival with music and Italian food, and a very small parade.
This took place about a block away from where I live. I could see a large section of it from my balcony, which was cool. I went down there and ate some good Italian food, includng an Italian dish called a "rollini", which is some rolled up pasta with tomato sauce and pancetta (from Bella Mangiata's booth). It was quite tasty.
There was a game where you paid a dollar, and got to try to hit some salami's hanging on the wall with a piece of potato. If you hit them, you get a salami. I watched people try this, and they always threw like they were throwing a baseball. They almost always missed. I got up there and paid my dollar. I thought I would like to win, so probably there is a better way to do this. It occured to me that the baseball throw was a throw designed for speed, not accuracy. So what I did was throw it as one would throw a dart. This technique worked quite well. Both my throws hit a salami, so now I have two salamis.
Now I have to figure out the best way to eat the salami's, a food item I don't normally eat. My coworker that recently spent some time in Italy informed me they eat it in slices, with cheese. That's it, very simple. Mmmmm, 50 cent salamis...
Posted by ahyatt at July 30, 2003 05:48 PM