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Happy Holidays Best wishes for 2012 to all of you, thank you for keeping up with the tasty travels of Driving and Dining. Check out our article from earlier this month for some concession stand treats from Christmas concessions -the perfect snacks during your ice skating, winter festival, Christmas market, or other winter outing. Today [...]

Even free events can add up to big money when you add in transportation, snacks, meals, beverages, souvenirs, and more. A.C. Haury’s’ tips for Saving Money at the Ball Park can be applied to any other event. She suggests buying tickets (when applicable) at a discount ticket site or box office and also taking public [...]

Happy Halloween! What better time to look at some of the creepier concession tricks and treats? Some seasonal attractions go ‘all out’ with their Halloween themed concession stands, but all concession stands can add some fear factor to their food this time of year. The Headless Horseman Hayride and Haunted House in Ulster Park, NY [...]

Driving and Dining was nominated to participate in the TripBase 7 links meme. A big thank you to Traci over at Go Big or Go Home for the nomination! Here are 7 links to previous posts here at drivinganddining.com – a sort of ‘best of’ list that is a great way for new visitors to [...]

Roll Out The Barrel Root Beer barrel, that is! One of my favorite childhood memories is buying an ice cold root beer from a concession stand. They pulled it from a large wooden barrel with a tap in the side and it was the best root beer I’ve ever tasted and the perfect way to [...]

Donut History Before we can talk about mini-donuts we should look at regular donuts… One of the AG Minute videos features the history of donuts and explains that they date back to a sea captain in 1847 who used the spokes on his steering wheel to hold his doughnuts. They were first mass-produced in the [...]

Amusement Parks That Move From Town to Town Excitement builds as you watch them set up various carts and mobile kitchens at the fairgrounds or the shopping mall parking lot. All of the usual suspects are there: the Octopus ride, the Ferris wheel, the games of chance, and the hot dog and cotton candy concession [...]

It’s Apple Season It’s apple season and my husband and our two daughters headed out to our local apple festival. Next year, we will arrive early because we got there an hour before the end and they had sold out of apples! They also didn’t have any apple pie left. Sigh. On a happier note, [...]

Candy Apples Today we take a look at a common concession confection: the candy apple. Personally, I always think these things are much more appealing in theory than the actual experience – but some people out there must love them because they are very popular. While many people tend to call apples wrapped or dipped [...]

Happy Ice Cream Month! That’s right, it’s ice cream month – a great way to really kick into summertime! Ice cream is the official mascot of summer holiday, after all! Ice cream is welcome at any summer event: the beach, a picnic, the playground, a roadtrip, and the back yard! Unfortunately, it’s not easy to [...]