F20M 2009

This weekend was very eventful. NFL games, my mom ran her second half marathon, and F20M (Festival of 20 Meats)! Every year my Uncle Jody puts together this festival, and it's gotten to be a pretty big ordeal for all his family and friends. About thirty or forty people come every year.

The tradition started when my uncle and his friends were pondering how many things you could grill. They have lion, alligator, venison, swordfish, buffalo, and a whole lot more. My personal favorite food at F20M is meat candy, which is sausage wrapped in bacon with brown sugar and/or syrup drizzled on top. It is simply to die for. Anyway, all my cousins come, which is always a lot of fun since we live so far away.

We played a game of baseball at a nearby diamond, and set off some really cool rockets that went 1,000 feet in the air and released a little army man that came parachuting down. Also, Uncle Jody gave all the cousins cigarette candy, which comes in packs and looks exactly like a cigarette, except that there's bubblegum underneath the wrapping. And the really cool thing about them is that if you blow on them, sugar puffs out that looks like smoke. The great thing about these things is that they don't turn your lungs black, they have gum inside them, they don't smell like crap, and people will still think that you're really smoking!

All in all, this F20M was really good. And remember, MEAT IS MURDER! Tasty, tasty, murder.