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Foods at Harvestfest 2011
2012 Foods coming soon!
Food choices* during the festival are abundant and varied; they include the popular OX ROAST and BAKED BEANS as well as scrumptious treats such as chicken & biscuits, pulled pork sandwiches, crab cakes, lobster bisque, stuffed clams, boiled lobster, lobster rolls, clam chowder, crabmeat rolls, tuna rolls, lobster macaroni and cheese, steak & chicken tips. There will also be traditional favorites: hot dogs, hamburgers, cheeseburgers, sausage subs, potato salad, chili, french fries and onion rings, fried dough, seafood chowder, a variety of desserts including fudge, whoopie pies, candy apples, warm homemade gingerbread with whipped cream, cookies, ice cream sundaes, donuts and hot apple crisp. Don’t forget to wash it down with water, soda, hot apple cider and coffee, which will also be available! This is just the list as of press time, look for even more treats when you get there!
Vendors this year include the Cape Neddick Baptist Church, Chef’s Cove Café & More, Dockside Restaurant on York Harbor, Dream Factory, Kennebunk Savings Bank, Knights of Columbus, Roundabout Diner / Chill Catering, St. Aspinquid Couples Club, Sweet Josie’s Candy Shoppe, The Meat House, Warren’s Lobster House, York Elks Lodge #2788, York Harbor Inn and the Greater York Region Chamber of Commerce, your festival hosts!
*Please note, not all food items are available both days.
 
An Ox-Roast and Beans---a 28 Year Success Story
It all started with a cow….and a hundred or so good chamber friends, who decided 28 years ago to have an end of the season BBQ. Being the adventuresome group that they were, and still are, by the way, hamburgers and hot dogs just didn’t cut the mustard---no pun intended. No, no. Only a half an ox would do! So they built a custom BBQ pit, got some big iron racks---and we mean BIG---and low and behold, an event was born!
Three generations of Foster men have been fanning the midnight flames ever since! It takes a bit of doing to cook this beast, but the end result has brought hundreds and hundreds of people over the years from far and near, who begin lining up at 10:00am to sample the famous Harvestfest ox-roast sandwiches. And over the years, it made perfect sense to add Maine’s favorite Saturday night dish---baked beans---to the mix!! Both can be found at home plate in the York Beach Ball Field on Saturday, and Saturday only, Oct. 13th beginning at 11:00am until it’s gone, usually in about an hour!!
Special thanks to the men who began it all, Bill, Mark, and Peter Foster, and all their families, staff members and friends from the Stage Neck Inn, who continue to not only man the fire all night, but who also financially sponsor this element of the celebration. Yup—it’s all about the cow!
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