The Naaco Truck picking up their award for Best New Midway Food for 2012 Tweet Here we go again. The diet goes out the window at the county fair. The Calgary Stampede has released their deep fried midway food list for 2013. Look out tummy, hello yummy. I’ve waded my way through Donut Burgers, Macaroni [...]

Tweet Not content with chowing down on the best midway food the Calgary Stampede has to offer, this weekend I fired up the home grill and had a prairie oyster sausage. Prairie oysters, or rocky mountain oysters, are bull testicles. Maybe you’d prefer to call them calf fries, swinging beef, dusted groins, or cowboy caviar. [...]

Tweet For the second year in a row, an ethnic twist on fair food has won the title of Best New Stampede Midway Food. In 2011, it was Kubie Korn Balls, a delicious corn fritter with bites of kielbasa sausage that tasted like a pancake breakfast. This year The Calgary Food Truck revolution has swept [...]

Tweet It’s not too difficult to create food for a midway. The steps are basically: find something edible, then deep fry it. Still, with that simple math a smorgasbord of delicious items has been unveiled for the 2012 Calgary Stampede. The best new midway food for the 2011 Calgary Stampede was Kubie Korn Balls. Simple [...]

Tweet March 29, 2012 marked 100 Days until The Greatest Outdoor Show on Earth is celebrated for the 100th time. 100 days to show the world what hospitality and community spirit is all about. Already hailed as one of the best parties on the planet, The Calgary Stampede is about to step it up a [...]

Tweet Looking for the Calgary Food Trucks is part of the fun of eating fascinating street food. It’s like geocaching for a meal, a scavenger hunt for the hungry, a mission impossible sometimes to find them lurking in alleys and parking lots on the fringe. Here’s a list of the Facebook pages and Twitter accounts [...]

Tweet Calaway Park Hwy 1 and Range Road 33, Calgary [google map] Admission: 7+: $34, 3-6: $27, Under 3: free, Family of 4: $79 If you have kids between the ages of 4 and 9, there isnt a more perfect place for you to spend a summer day than at Calaway Park on the west [...]