A Moveable Fest: Second Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival--Part 2

Now that NJ is back, it was time for the main event of the Second Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival.  So on Friday, Sept 23, we had the revelers over.

A few stats on the Second Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival:

• There were 10 pawpaws to share: 1000% growth over the 1 pawpaw of last year.
• There were 11 adults and 7 children at the festival: 450% growth over the 4 that attended last year.
• It lasted from 7pm to 10:30pm, so 3.5 hours: 14 times longer than the 15 minute festival of last year. 

(For the First Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival of a year ago, click here.)

Some of the revelers had already had a small taste of a pawpaw previously because last year we did some drive-by pawpaw tastings. But these two revelers had never tasted a pawpaw and said it was as if someone had made some custard and stuffed it into a fruit. The reveler on the right had lived in Hong Kong for 1.5 years and said it tasted "like egg tart in China."

The two revelers on the right had tasted pawpaws before, not only picked from the wilds of East Tennessee but also at a previous sub-event of the Second Annual Utah Pawpaw Festival.)

The reveler on the right was so dedicated to the festivities that even the trials of family life couldn't keep him away: because his and his wife's toddler was having a rough day, he alone from his family was able to make it to the festival.

We set the kid-sized revelers up downstairs, watching The Cat from Outer Space. Some of them tried the pawpaw and some didn't.

At an ideal pawpaw festival, the revelers would be able to fill up on an overabundance of pawpaws. But because we only had ten to share, we asked people to bring a few other snacks. Here's the spread. The half-pawpaw sitting in the front middle: we were saving that for the last arrival of the evening, and I needed to snatch it from W's hands at one point to make sure that the last arriving reveler would have some pawpaw.

As any organizer of a pawpaw festival knows, there's a lot of clean-up that takes place after a festival. Here's a view of some of the extensive post-festival scene we were faced with.