The 52nd Summer Fancy Food Show is in full swing, going for other 2 days (Monday & Tuesday) in case you missed out on Sunday. The wife and I met up with the Creator & Createss in the lobby of the Javits Center bright and early on Sunday and proceeded to walk around and ingest the most random palate of samples possible. The Creator & I hunted for the spiciest items we could find while the wives beelined for sweets.
- Only a few fiery vendors were on hand (that I came across):
- Blair’s Sauces & Snacks
- Dave’s Gourmet
- Porky’s Gourmet
- Art of Chipotle
- Nando’s
- Tabasco
Blair had prototypes of his new wing sauces on display (pictures to follow). Dave was sampling his Smokin’ Nuts and Porky’s Gourmet was sampling their entire line along with their new line of Hank Williams Jr. Sauces.
Art of Chipotle has doubled their product line to include a black bean dip, an enchilada sauce & some gourmet salsas. The Baja Bruschetta Salsa features a ton of basil & the Pineapple Mojito Salsa tastes like a mojito on your chip. Tom is still tweaking with the recipes before they are completely ready for market, so stay tuned for the official release.
The day was long and even though we stayed till 4ish, we didn’t cover the entire show. We made it through the 1st level and about 1/2 of the second before having to call it quits for the day. The show is definately worth the entry price, even if your just looking at all the displays and tasting random food.
26 responses to “52nd Summer Fancy Food Show – Quick Recap”
Definitely had a good time, and the roars of cheering during the World Cup game was funny as Hell. Nick is right though, virtually nothing with any decent amount of heat in the entire building. Tried the Nuckin Futs, your basic extract sauce, but at least made my tongue tingle for a little while. I think the best new thing I had, but I can’t remember the company, were the oversized wasabi peanuts, the quick burn went straight to the eyes, very nice. My overall regular favorite, which I was very glad to see at the end of epic tour for the day were the Divina marinated garlic cloves, oh man, just flat out awesome. Of course The Createss had to deal with the garlic-infused halitosis on the train ride back, but she’s a trooper. 🙂
I would highly suggest that anyone who is interested in food in a varietal sense should check this show out annually. Where else in NYC can you feast on top-shelf foods from 100 different countries, all you can eat style, for $35.00? Oh yeah, and they have beer too.
Wish I would have been there! Looks like I will have to wait to see you all at the Fort Worth show. Especially with the new release from Blair!!! It ought to be an exciting weekend.
Ok, so the THT’s finally made it home after our second full day at the Fancy Foods show. I don’t think my clothes will ever fit again. Like Creator said though, we scouted the entire show and found not one product, besides the wasabi nuts that had any kind of real heat. No matter how hot a product was labeled, they never really delivered any type of real heat. However, there were a ton of products that were delicious and we completely pigged out. It was cool to meet up with some fellow HSBers as well. I’d definitely recommend going.
I am beat! We went back today, but called it quits at like 3ish. It is the place to be though! Yesterday by the time we met up with Nick and the crew, we were olived and cheesed out! I have to say that everything that said hot, honestly really wasn’t. It was funny to see the surprised look in the exhibitors eyes when we would say something was not hot. The most challenging part was trying to get the samples out that were given to us at the show. Amusing, but what a pain in bootie!
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Our if your in ohio try the same stuff at Jungle Jim’s. You will find Garlic . Beer Lots of Beer. And I think they sell HHHHHHOOOOOOTTTTTT SAUCE there also LOL
Hmmmm, I might just have to stop in one of these days. Hell, I used to live in Columbus many moons ago.
Hey John, Where in Columbus did you live? Bret did too…
Whats up Big daddy
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Heyt john
How did your weekend go? Well I hope!
John I order 1000 cs of my hot sauce today. How many do you want to take to texas. 400-500cs. Let me know.
Blair’s new wing sauce???? Can’t wait!! I wonder if it will be hot??
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Blair make a wimp sauce. Come now eman you know him better then that. Hey hows the Baby and Mom and you doing.
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It could have been much better sales wise! The weather was beautiful, the crowd was good, they were just too much in a wine tasting/drinking/gussling mode than an eating/buying mode. We learned we could do the concession thing and we will definitely do it again. College isn’t cheap, but neither is the School of Hard Knocks! (pun intended) How’s the competition going?
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eman I was given a interview about 2or 3 weeks ago for food mag about BBQ, Rubs. and other sauces .And we start on hot sauce and I told her about the HSB. Info about hot sauce she could find it on there Just ask and they will come. Talk about super hot sauce and told her I’am a wimp. Ask you all is what I told her. I just buy and sell food from around the world and in between. LOL
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eman the point is I hope Blair makes a wimp wing sauce for wimps like me
John you out pushing your products on poor college kids . I bet they had money for wine and beer.LOL
250 comment do I get wink our Something night all. Night BIG DADDY
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Sorry to hear sales weren’t better. Competition for my daughter starts Wednesday. Just kind of hanging out right now. I’ll certianly let you know how she does!
How come I have 10 comments and they all say 246.
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All your comments will say 246 (or 247) now – they count up each time you leave a comment, not in squential order by comment number but just the total number of comments you’ve left.
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Nick if your still out there Is my IP at work block from the blog. And from boiler room it won’t let post .I’am ris. Checking no big deal.
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Bret – IP: Not that I’m aware of
Forum: You didn’t respond to the confirmation email (I just manually approved you) try again and see what happens.
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Hi CaJohn, we lived in the Upper Arlington section, in Kenbrook Village, 3525 Prestwick Court South, if my memory hasn’t failed me. It was in the very early 70’s. It was in the middle of fields and farmland at that time. My father, travelling on business about 5-6 years ago looked for it with a rental car, and said it’s now nestled in the middle of major suburbia. Kinda funny.
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Bret is from Upper Arlington as well. I’ve always lived on the Northeast side of town. First in the Linden area, then in Minerva Park. Still do now. When we moved up here we were in the country, it changed in the mid 70’s and now you have to drive 15 minutes to find the “country” again! Columbus is growing/changing very fast.
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Thanks Nick For your time.
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As my dad said, it sure seems that way. I haven’t been back there in decades. We lived in Colorado Springs as well, and MAN has THAT changed as well. Gee, can you tell I’m an Army Brat?