What can $40 get you at Junk Food Alley?

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE)- WANE 15 despatched a reporter with $20 in the summer season of 1985 to see how a great deal Three Rivers Festival memorabilia and food stuff it could get you. 37 a long time later, we went back again, but this time with $40 to commit.

There are lots of delightful possibilities to select from, but when you only have $40 to spend, you have to have to choose cautiously. The good news is, there was a offer at the truthful. Most of the stands and foodstuff vendors had a “$2 Tuesday” specific.

For Tuesday only, particular goods at diverse distributors price tag $2. WANE 15 took gain of this: we have been in a position to acquire two deep-fried Oreos, a corndog, and a compact Dreamsicle-flavored snow cone. Ordinarily, all of this would operate you $19, but Tuesday, it only price tag $6.

With the remaining $34, WANE was in a position to order a wide range of various pageant meals, drinks, and staples of TRF. As we walked up and down Junk Food Alley, we acquired an assortment of remarkable meals and drinks.

This involved a pulled rooster sandwich food that came with two sides and a consume for $10. Green beans and potato salad were the sides of option with a Coca-Cola to drink. We also bought two bottled waters for $3 a piece.

A couple of Using Redskins, the class of 1961 of North Side Substantial Faculty, ended up making the most of Junk Meals Alley Tuesday afternoon and they explained how periods have changed.

“A ton less costly, I try to remember coming down listed here and I would go to Coney Island and I would get 10 scorching puppies for a greenback, and which is been a when,” explained a single Riding Redskin. “I assume the elephant ears back again then applied to be $2 for a real large just one,” said a different.

Eventually, we dipped into the festival staples and bought an elephant ear for $7, and a lemon shake-up for $9. Regrettably, there weren’t any TRF shirts or garments items out there to order, but there had been buttons for $5 each and every.

In total, $38 were spent on food items and beverages. There is a $1 comfort payment when you spend with a debit or credit rating card at a number of of the sellers which WANE was billed 1 time. This introduced the total amount of money used to $39 at TRF.