Pig snouts, lamb tails, eel and pancakes
The Collingwood Food Fair was a very successful fundraiser for the rugby club.
"Yum, yum, pig's bum" said Dave Myall, "And today it really could be pig's bum."
Dave was one of more than 200 people who enjoyed the Collingwood Rugby Club's second highly successful summer food fair. The food was caught, shot, harvested, cultivated, hooked and cooked locally and there was plenty on offer, including hare stew, goat patties, sun-dried eel, ox tongue and barbecued lambs' tails. More conventional tucker like tuatua patties, scallop mornay, soup and salads and Mr Whippy ice-creams were available too.
Rugby club president Gorsey Strange explained that the Collingwood club is one of the very few in the country to own its own ground and that ground maintenance absorbs about 2/3 of the club's entire expenditure.
"We maintain the ground on behalf of the community," he said. "That's why we're so pleased to see such terrific community support for our major fundraising day. There's a lot of volunteer work behind the success of a day like this. "
Starting at 3pm on Sunday, the summer food fair continued long into the night and unconfirmed information suggests that it was an unqualified success, both as a fundraiser and a community event.
Neil Wilson
