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Have you ever had strawberry salsa. I love it. I think it's bred

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and go ahead and throw his That was delicious. Yeah, that was great.

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That was great. Oh I have some warm Okay. I never would

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have thought of putting cilantro and strawberries together. Here they are basic ingredients to

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the salsa, green onions, halapenos serrano. I mean, you know,

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cilantro and a little bit of lime juice and a little chomp, chomp,

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chomp. We're talking about the Strawberry Festival, which is coming up this weekend.

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Starts tomorrow. Festival hours go from one until from one pm until ten

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pm, so you can come out and see our news and bruce up in

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Lancaster, make your way all the way back down to Garden Rope and catch

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it probably by the time that ends. For that sounds like a fun day.

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But our celebrity grand marshals this year are wing Lamb, Ed Lee and

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Mingo Lee of course from Wahoo's and wing Lamb is here with us to help

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kick off Strawberry Festival. I feel like everybody knows when right, like everybody

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and if you're in southern California, yeah that's right. Yeah, it's like

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you know, old friends come to the show day, so we appreciate it.

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It's always fun to be here. Okay, if I come on Neo

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Servedria Kama, our food guy the Fork Report on Saturdays, it's always fun

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to hang out with him. You were talking about sort of how you got

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involved with Strawberry Festival from you know, pandemic. We've we've talked many times

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with restaurant owners and small business owners who pandemic comes along and punches everybody in

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the throat and we had to kind of scramble to find new ways to do

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business and new new products to pitch, and you know, to change a

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way, change around sort of the structure of what these businesses were. How

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did you get involved with with Strawberry Festival. Well, basically, Andrew,

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who's the director, came to me years ago and say, hey, we

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need a little bit of help, you know, getting you know, awareness

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out. What do you mean awareness thing's been around for sixty four years.

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Yeah, but it's one of those that you kind of even the Fair,

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all these events they kind of get forgotten. You know, you need a

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reminder. So I started out to day let me help you with some of

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the media people We know, and just starting a radio, TV and all

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that, and then out of the blue, they change the theme of this

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year to be, you know, like all hometown heroes, and they thought,

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well, you know, you've been helping us out, why not have you guys be the Grand Marshals. I'm like, we're helping you guys.

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We don't want to, you know, we don't need to be on the front. We just were just happying part of the community. And they said,

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no, we really appreciate all that you guys have done. So we

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get to ride in the parade. That's so cool. Are you going to have a Grand Marshall outfit? Probably a gigantic strawberry Yeah. I love that.

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They're doing all kinds of stuff. So Tomorrow at six o'clock on Main

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Street and Garden Growth, they're doing the opening ceremony two thousand free pieces of

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strawberry cake. Yep. Saturday is the parade starting at ten am, and

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then the food, the rides, the live music, everything continues through through

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Monday night. I mean there's a tribute there's an air Ro Smith tribute band,

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a def Leopard tribute band. I mean, this is going to be

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a lot of fun. Yeah, and pretty much everything is free except for

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the rides and what you eat right right, and again all the proceeds go

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to local charities. So that's the most amazing part. So walking to the

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festivals free. But if you want to participate in some of the rides and all that a little bit of money, but all that local nonprofits are running

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it. How versatile is a strawberry? I mean just in terms of the

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way that the different kind of things that you could prepare with it is it

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would you consider it a pretty versatile food? Amazing? I mean, come

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on, it's like you can have it with ice cream. You can have

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it, you know, on top of anything like the French those you're getting

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ready to a mean ingredient in the you know, yogurt right here, sure,

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and the salsa not to mention hibiscus tea. The seven Leasa is making

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I am super excited about this one event on Sunday eleven am the Berry Very

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Beautiful Baby Contest. This for babies three months to two years old. You

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can sign up on online. Do people dress their babies as strawberries? Amassing?

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Yes, yes, yeah, it's adorable. A bunch of little babies

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as strawberries does it get better than that? I mean it's super fun.

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I mean again, super community friendly and again you know, never mind that

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there's less and less strawberries grown around town, but the festival, the tradition

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is still there. So it's time we get together. Wing. Is is

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Amy King going to go into the Redhead round up contest? You know I

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was here with her last week. Yeah, I'm gonna try to get as

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many of you guys to come down. Okay, that's what helps. You've got a redhead in your family. Your son has kind of bradish hair,

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strawberry it's strawberry blonde. Oh my god, he's a shoe in. He's

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a shoe great hair too, does have great hair. You can find out

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all the information. Strawberry Festival dot org is where you're gonna find all the

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information, not just the attractions and the contests and the ceremonies, the parade,

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the vendor boots, all of that stuff where you can to be able

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to get the strawberry, the strawberry salsa and you. So this is the

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strawberry mango, this is yoga. Yes, all right, I'm done chewing.

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It's special because it's only available for a limited time. The strawberry sauca.

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Right, so that's a participating in Wahoo's locations. Yes, and a

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French toast, A strawberry French toast. I'm about to available at my brother's

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restaurant toast and tableau. And again limited time offer, but it looks like

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they're going to continue offering because it's been such a big hit. I was just gonna say, I got I got four. He can't need a fork.

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Well, I just wanted to make sure you got some of that in

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your in your ma. I will all right, very wing lamb. Thank

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you so much. It's always nice to see you around here. Always don't

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forget Strawberry Festival. Dot org is where you find all of the information.

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I just think it adds little something when you can hear the crunch you know

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of the chip. Oh yes, absolutely, we need the more of you

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eating. We'll do strength science when we come back.