Tasty Tuesday posting on Friday!

Wow it has been one of those weeks (really 2 weeks).  This week for Luke’s 4-h project we took a tour of Jungle Jim’s.  In case you haven’t heard of it Jungle Jim’s is a huge I mean 212,000 square feet! 

  This is a picture of the front which doesn’t do justice to show the size of the store.  This rail used to be part of the safari at Kings Island! We learned that Jungle built this store with may recycled items.  He purchased things from places like Kings Island the old Americana Amusement park that shut down a decade and a half ago.


We took the tour with our county 4-h foods department.  There were about 17 of us in attendance counting the kiddos and the adults.  Here is a picture of my handsome Luke in the front of the store as we were  gathering and waiting for everyone to get there.  You cant really see it but the sign behind him is welcoming our 4-h club.  


Of course it wouldn’t be a Tasty Tuesday post with out food, right?  We tried so many foods as we walked through the store.  First we had strawberry smoothies!  I am not a strawberry person so I passed on this.  Luke said they were really good!  Next we had red velvet chocolate.  Hello it is chocolate of course we loved that!  As we walked thru the store our tour guide explained to us many different things about Mr Jungle  like how he named the boat in the store after one if his amazing cashiers at the Fairfield store who passed away, or how another decoration for the store went to Dayton instead of Cincinnati since Mr Jungle was from Dayton and he had to travel up there to get the boat.  It was damaged so he took it to the Fairfield store where he has his own fab shop to make the repairs himself!
    As we proceeded through the store we stopped at the seafood department.  I am not found of this department however we usually stop because the kiddos like to watch the lobsters.  When we got there they were cleaning the lobster tanks.  Someone brought out two lobsters for us to see and touch (no thank you).  We also got to see an octopus!  Check out the picture!  They are smaller than I thought they were.   They looked pretty yucky to me.  I don’t eat seafood though.




Another department that I wasn’t too fond of was the hot sauce department.  I don’t like those either.  My boys however do!  Luke wanted to go back and get some Tobasco when we were finished or on our next trip.  They even had an adult hot sauce department.  Check it out!

Our tour guide showed us all kinds even the one that you have to have with some kind of beverage.  It could burn your insides!  Yikes!  I won’t be purchasing that for my family!  We did get to try a lot more things like Colby-Jack cheese curds, Asian chocolate bear cookies, Pears, Boars Head honey ham, and tortilla chips with salsa.  The chips were really thick and tasty.  I think my favorite ones.

We had a great time on our 90 minute tour, tasted a lot of foods and learned a few things about the store and Mr Jungle Jim!  This tour was set specifically for the 4-h foods department, so the other kiddos in our family were not able to attend.  Our tour guide said that they love to set up tours and would be happy to set on up with our homeschool group!  We will be doing this again!  With all the foods that we ate we decided that we didn’t need lunch afterwards so we stopped by Sweet Frog and had a frozen yogurt!  Luke had never been so as I was explaining to him how it worked and that it was self serve, he saw this and had to take a picture for his Lego building brothers.


              It was a sweet tart Lego brick!  He was excited since he and his brothers have been building with Legos for years!  What a great finish to a great tour!