What can you expect from a campground breakfast? They always had a lineup, so speed was definitely their main focus. And speedy it was, at the sacrifice of quality. My friend Lauren made better hashbrowns on her campfire, though they took a good long time to cook. I understand the deep fryer, believe me, but I still don’t covet it.

Next Festival, I recommend you try your luck getting breakfast at random campsites. It’s not too hard to get fed around Folk Fest. Gropp’s was the best thing available to buy in the campground, in that it was the only thing available to buy. If we have to have something in the campground, we could do worse than them.

I’ll bet we see them next year.

July 10 2009

Gropp’s Country Catering

(from Kenora Ontario)

Winnipeg Folk Festival, Festival Campground (Campground 1B)

Hours of operation:

Breakfast served  9 AM - Noon

July 8 - 12 2009

Breakfast Special  $6  

Coffee  $1.50

While many people were skeptical about having a food vendor inside the campground, Gropp’s turned out to be a nicely unobtrusive part of the camping experience. Instead of having loud motors supplying power, the trailer restaurant ran on electricity so there was no noise besides the deep fryer frying away. The trailer was far enough away from tents that vegetarians weren’t forced to smell burgers all day if they didn’t want to, they could just camp in the next field.

After last year’s Festival breakfast debacle at the Taste of Sri Lanka, I was wary of this year’s offering. There were a few similarities: both places had long lineups, breakfasts that cost around $7, and they both required us to butter our own toast. Thankfully, that’s where the similarities end.

Gropp’s breakfast was ready in about one minute, which was nice after the ten we spent in line. They gave us the wrong change back and looked overworked in the small, hot kitchen even at 10am

Leif and I tried both the bacon or sausage, and found them both to be really salty. Really salty. The hashbrowns looked like the French fry ends we got at Partners, but were just cut that way. They were real potatoes, just deep fried. Our eggs came to order, and the toast was nice and thick (even if we had to butter it ourselves, with no PB or jam available).

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