Yesterday, I found myself attending the city's Hot Sauce Festival. Truly a great idea: let salsa/hot sauce aficionados congregate in a city park on a Sunday afternoon that's not excessively hot, and try out various local hot sauces and buy jars of good sauces that they wouldn't have found otherwise.
The crazier part? Its popularity. TONS of people were there, and as a result, lines formed so that you could pick up a single chip, dip it, taste, and move on. We're talking Disneyland-calibur lines. Because of that, I only got to try out 6 or 7 salsas, but I do know this: man, some little Austin places can make one hell of a hot sauce.
And then I get this IM from some Austinite whose identity I can't figure out by his screenname alone: "We also have a festival dedicated to spam." But I can't really see myself going to that one.