{"id":147,"date":"2009-05-09T21:22:03","date_gmt":"2009-05-10T02:22:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=147"},"modified":"2009-05-12T21:34:13","modified_gmt":"2009-05-13T02:34:13","slug":"flag-pond-ramp-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/?p=147","title":{"rendered":"Flag Pond Ramp Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_148\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-148\" style=\"width: 393px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-148\" title=\"flag_pond_school\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flag_pond_school.jpg\" alt=\"Flag Pond School\" width=\"393\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flag_pond_school.jpg 393w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/flag_pond_school-300x150.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 393px) 100vw, 393px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-148\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Flag Pond School<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Flag Pond is a small community just across the NC border into Tennessee.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve driven through many a time but hadn&#8217;t ever actually stopped.\u00a0\u00a0 The annual Ramp Festival was a great reason to spend a few hours in town.\u00a0\u00a0 Ramps are basically a wild member of the garlic-onion family and are often called wild leeks.\u00a0\u00a0 They grow wild in the Appalachian mountains and are highly resistant to any sort of farming so they&#8217;re not common outside of the mountains and not really even easy to find in the mountains except for a month or so each year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_149\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-149\" style=\"width: 357px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-149\" title=\"ramp_line\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_line.jpg\" alt=\"Serving Line\" width=\"357\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_line.jpg 357w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_line-272x300.jpg 272w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-149\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Serving Line<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The &#8216;festival&#8217; is really more like a lunch, or maybe dinner depending when you get there.\u00a0 There are a couple of gospel \/ bluegrass bands but the main reason to visit is to eat.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 A ticket costs $7 and you can wait in line in front of skillets frying up either bacon or potatoes with or without ramps.\u00a0\u00a0 Just in case you weren&#8217;t hungry yet you will be by the time you reach the actual food.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_150\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150\" style=\"width: 391px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150\" title=\"ramp_plate\" src=\"http:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_plate.jpg\" alt=\"Ramp Festival Plate\" width=\"391\" height=\"353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_plate.jpg 391w, https:\/\/mrfs.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/ramp_plate-300x270.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-150\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ramp Festival Plate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>It started raining while we were collecting our food so we ate in the Flag Pond School gymnasium.\u00a0\u00a0 Here&#8217;s what you end up with, from the top clockwise on this plate are fried potatoes with ramps, bacon, cornbread, raw ramps (optional), and soup beans with a bit of chow chow on top.\u00a0\u00a0 There&#8217;s also slaw and desert on separate plates.\u00a0\u00a0 In the potatoes, the ramps really just taste like strong scallions.\u00a0\u00a0 They&#8217;re not really noticeably strong until you eat the raw ones.\u00a0 Those have a pretty good spicy onion kick to them and you&#8217;ll have no problem remembering what they taste like for at least 12 hours afterwards.\u00a0 Maybe a whole day or two.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flag Pond is a small community just across the NC border into Tennessee.\u00a0 We&#8217;ve driven through many a time but hadn&#8217;t ever actually stopped.\u00a0\u00a0 The annual Ramp Festival was a great reason to spend a few hours in town.\u00a0\u00a0 Ramps are basically a wild member of the garlic-onion family and are often called wild leeks.\u00a0\u00a0 &hellip; 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