the great american food and music festival - the new meadowlands stadium - new jersey:

for starters, the weather was not in the festival favor so that put the kilbash on things. the set up was not ideal, but we got to see some Paula Deen antics, Tom Colicchio food schooling, and the team of Charm City Cakesters. the rain rafted most of the crowd out, but a small group gathered by the exit gates to watch the band's set. they had a a huge stage in the stadium at the 50 yard line with big guitar banners on each side, but no bands were playing that stage while all of the food vendors were outside the stadium as well as the bands playing on stages without guitar banners on the sides. the day was a wash mostly, but in the waning moments before the bus pulled off the lot a few of us snagged a Louis' Lunch hamburger. bread to meat ratio was excellent and the beef flavorful, but overall no match for that corned beef sandy from Sarge's. and no one there has a tv show.