Teriyaki Samurai set up this booth at Taste Of Madison today.

Notice anything missing? Like maybe at least one dish with teriyaki in it? I was really looking forward to teriyaki by the time I got to this point. They could’ve at least had a ninja making the smoothies.

My Darling B and I biked into town this morning to see if we could find any really good or unusual food at Taste of Madison and sadly we have to report that we did not. Pulled pork seems to be a really big deal in the world of restaurant food, but neither of us had much of a hankering for pulled pork. Wrapping just about anything you can think of with bacon is also huge right now. The first thing B tried was BBQ shrimp wrapped in bacon. Tasted like bacon in barbecue sauce. The shrimp didn’t add much to the dish, except maybe to jack up the price.

And I’m going to gripe about the portions again. I ordered a gyro that turned out to be a full-sized gyro, big enough to be a complete meal. Couldn’t taste anything after that because I couldn’t bring myself to take another bite.

We keep going to Taste of Madison because the first year of the festival we had a lot of fun trying the showcase foods of the restaurants in the area, but frankly now that the food’s become more like the deep-fried twinkies, bacon-wrapped lard and the rest of the weirdo stuff served at a county fair, I’m not that interested any more.