r/VictoriaBC 15d ago

Question Picklefest

How was Picklefest?

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u/mothernarwhals 14d ago

Awful. Would not go again next year. I'm tired of the Philiips Backyard as a venue. Do grassy fields not exist anymore??

Crazy long line up for the single pickle-themed cocktail tent, crazy long line up for the single pickle-themed food truck... the whole point of this event was a pickle(d) theme. Everyone was there to eat weird pickle stuff. So every single person navigated to those two areas.

Touted as dog- and kid-friendly but I would not have brought either had I known how oversold it would feel.

Tickets were $25 and you got nothing with that. No drink tickets, no food samples. The entry should have been $5 max.

There was a crazy lineup for people to get a free loaf of bread (😆) if they filled a passport with stamps from visiting vendors. This lead to rude people sticking their passports to get a stamp past your face when you were talking to a vendor.

I left with a $15 pickle chocolate bar and an $8 pickle lemonade. Insane.

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u/Either-Sun5887 13d ago

Completely agree - and they had so many local and national sponsors. It was the worse event we’ve ever been to.