Sudbury 375th Celebration
Saturday, September 6th, 2014
The town of Sudbury went all out to celebrate it’s 375th anniversary. They combined a large craft fair, tons of music and a fireworks show all in one day at their high school. We got invited because we’ve been doing plenty of other events in Sudbury like the Paws In The Park and The Colonial Faire. We were popping in Sudbury 2 weeks ago at their Olde Time Fair – this event was basically a warm up to this 375th celebration. Needless to say, Sudbury loves us and we love Sudbury.
Some of our most intense popping days are right before fireworks displays. It’s past dinner, it’s getting dark and everyone wants to a bag of kettle corn to munch on while they watch the show. We sold a crazy amount of kettle corn at the Assonet Fireworks back in 2012. If you can be right next to the spot where the crowd forms and get the wind to blow your cooking aroma across them, the whole thing feeds on itself and you end up getting murdered with ravenous customers. Today we ended up planting our tent right across the bandstand and were armed for bear. I took (5) 50 lb bags of popcorn with me that day. There was no way I was going to run out.
The day starts fine, but we didn’t get a crazy amount of business. They had asked a ton of other food vendors to be there, typically we can’t compete with real food like BBQ stuff when lunch time rolls around. They also had two ice cream trucks hammering the kids. By the time 4 o’clock rolled around, we were only up a hundred bucks each. Not a biggie, we thought the real killing was to be had when it got dark. All of a sudden a massive thunder storm front came through with tornado watches and everything. Gale force winds picked up, drenched everyone and the customers scattered. So much for our big day. We thought today would’ve been our biggest day of the year, but the weather screwed us.
