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Report From East Texas: 25th Annual Tomato Festival in Jacksonville, Texas

Posted on June 15th, 2009 9:45am by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Farmers Markets, Foodie People, Travel, cheap eats

Your brain after one hour at Tomato Festival.

Saturday, Jennifer Chininis and I headed to Jacksonville for the annual Tomato Festival. We landed at noon. It was 96 degrees and the humidity hovered around 65%. There was not a cloud in the sky. People were melting. All of the food was fried. There was no beer. We stayed long enough to almost faint—one hour and fifteen minutes. Here is a photo essay of the event. (Click on the picture below and then select slideshow.)







Tomato Festival

3 Comments to “Report From East Texas: 25th Annual Tomato Festival in Jacksonville, Texas”

FortWorthGuy @ June 15th, 2009 at 10:21 am

No beer!!!! Why did you stay that long?
Joeli @ June 15th, 2009 at 1:17 pm

Nancy, seeing that you reside in this neck of the woods, would think you would have no trouble figuring out what a “tornado tater” is….it’s a redneck contraption that utilizes a drill, clamp and potato (not kidding) to make twisty fries/chips. The potato usually comes out in one long curly string and is then deep-fried. See ‘em at the State Fair too. YUMMY with lots of ketchup!
Joeli @ June 15th, 2009 at 1:18 pm

BTW – “redneck” was meant in the nicest way…I count myself among them (from Kilgore, just a hop, skip and jump up the road).

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