Miles From Home: 3.8
Dates: Aug. 6th-16th

August 6th, 2009, sees the beginning of the Palermo's Pizza Tour's biggest event to date: the Wisconsin State Fair! Over the eleven day event, somewhere in the neighborhood of one million food, fun and agricultural enthusiasts flock to the Milwaukee area (West Allis to be exact) to partake in the exhibitions and competitions which make Wisconsin such a great state to inhabit and work in!

The home of Palermo's Pizza for the extent of the fair is the Wisconsin Products Pavilion. This building houses only exhibitors and vendors from within the state; Palermo's proudly meets such a criterion! Having been made in Milwaukee since 1964, we find ourselves a stone's throw away from the grounds and happily sleeping in our own beds at night!

Entering the fair on a record setting first day, the Palermo's crew is raring to get the event going in a timely and efficient manner. Rain and the climate controlled facility, as well as a well advertised coupon in the State Fair book, help draw crowds inside to sample some of Palermo's finest Rustico products. Many new people are discovering the plethora of tastes which dance and sing on their taste buds like a well trained Russian ballet troupe! The interest in Palermo's is so high that Barb will be quite busy in the coming months giving tours of our lovely facilities!

Every other day finds the real Palermo's go-getters involved in a pizza eating contest! A quarter of a Rustico pizza is devoured by a group of contestants hungry for victory and a shot at Italian culinary immortality like a pack of howling wolves! The contest caps off a presentation of Palermo's facts and pizza history that is enough to intrigue all in attendance.

Up to their usual antics, the Pizza Tour crew passes the long hours and days entertaining customers with fabled stories of yore from adventures on the road, as well as an occasional dance move. Ideas such as a starring role for Palermo's in a Star Wars spin-off titled "The Rise of the Rustico" and a reality series loosely based on the escapades of the Buffalo Chicken Style pizza in suburban New York abound.

A giant thank you goes out to all of our vendor friends and colleagues: Jill and Rhonda in the Products Pavilion, the crew across the hallway at Cedar Crest, Jackie and Kelly from the Badgers and Brewers, the cranberry ladies who could melt your heart anytime of the day with their smiles and kind words, Howling Wolf BBQ Sauce (my new sauce and shampoo of choice), everyone at the confections booth and, well, frankly all in the Pavilion and at the fair! But no one deserves a thank you quite like all of the patrons who help make State Fair an overwhelmingly successful event annually. Without you, we would be useless!

We served 15,000 slices when all was said and done! On to the Iowa State Fair and every experience lurking right behind every corner!

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