I’ve been poking through the indessed logs recently, to see how many people visit this site, and why. One of the interesting things to look at is the list of Google queries that bring people here—I’m on the first page of Google hits for a surprising range of interesting terms.
While not on the first page of Google hits, one interesting search query that has brought people to indessed has been the word “shishkaberries”—an apparently uniquely Seattle-ish treat of overpriced fruit stuck on a shish-ka-bob stick.
So, in attempt to be helpful to all those Google visitors searching for information about Shishkaberries, here’s my Shishkaberry Roundup:
The New Awesome experienced Shishkaberries the same place I did—at Bumbershoot, the awesome music festival held at the Seattle Center every year. For a whole weekend, you get to lounge around in the rare Seattle sun, listening to all sorts of music—from rap to rock to folk and back again.
Meanwhile, The Stranger complains about Shishkaberries at the Seattle Mariners games—apparently the sign says “Shiskaberry’s”, not “Shishkaberries”, offending the apostrophe sensabilities of the poster, Anthony Hecht.
The WhySeattleSportsSuck blog has a different take on the Shishkaberry subject. Their beef is that for five strawberries, you have to shell out five smackers—that is to say, one buck per strawberry (ignoring the delicious chocolateyness topping them). The author asserts that “this is why we’re in an economic crisis—banks lending out money they don’t even have so customers can run around willy-nilly throwing stacks of money off of bridges and paying a dollar for a strawberry.” Overpriced fruit kabobs representing the fundamentals of our econoomy? They might be on to something …
Summer of Matt also posted in the sports groove, but in a more positive note. He lauded the surprising variety of food available at Safeco Field, which apparently goes beyond the usual hot dog and nacho fare present at your typical stadium. Apart from Shishkaberries (”the coolest/most unique thing [he'd] seen”), he also mentioned garlic fries, BBQ, sake, and sushi—including the “Ichiroll”, a spicy tuna sushi roll named after the Seattle star, Ichiro Suzuki.
All this talk of food is making me hungry. I think I’ll go fix myself a snack.
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