Good morning and welcome to food thought with pixie bermizer And now here's pixie good morning another sunny and shall we say toasty day protected today? Hey Rio, I don't know you think it's gonna get up to 104. I think so yeah You think so and you know if I need to be outside Exactly and I think all around the valley at the temperature could vary. Mm-hmm.
Definitely. It was my car said 104 Last night at seven o'clock. Okay. There you go.
There you go toasty. Yes, and here we are Do you realize how close we're getting to the peach festival each day? Very very very close So we're going to do a cool-down dance valley white a couple days before the peach festival We know how that works. I haven't started I haven't really got the word out yet or just go outside and stand and do a little rain dance right now I would help to but we are getting close you guys, and it's exciting on this national raspberry day You're going how come it's not peach day is peach month.
We're not close enough at raspberries and peaches Oh, go together absolutely and don't look at me that way. I saw that round you're like what yeah, you know real But yes, we have you know Peach melba, which is a dish named after an actress from long ago who put peaches and raspberries together So there now you learn something from history and our guests are going hmm really I didn't know that Oh, it's also national spritz day So have some spritz afterwards after the show. What do you think? I'm not even sure I know what that is Well, it's it's a sprite.
It's a spritz. He kind of bubbly. It's like soda water type thing kind of yeah Gotcha. I think we'll ask what our guests think as well.
Of course, it's August 1st. Happy birthday to Colorado indeed I won't say maybe our guests good. I don't know But 150 years and of those 150 years 143 of those years have had the presence of the peach and by the way are those peaches delicious I have to ask a couple here if you will call our peach royalty turned kind of progressed into peach ambassadors because that's really what What these girls are and it's timed they are going to be the face of the festival and there's my goodness what cute faces I'm looking at right now We have four ambassadors and we got two right now and then we'll switch to two other ones So a total of four some very interesting twist to having our ambassadors this year But they're gonna be out there You're gonna see them all over the place and definitely at the ice cream social street dance Which is the 13th kind of kicks off peach days and well They're gonna tell us what all they have to do because I know they have to do a lot So I would like to say welcome to Maddie Hi everyone. Hi, I'm Maddie or Madeline Peoples and I am 14 years old and I go to Grand Junction High School And I'm currently a sophomore there you go and this young lady Hi, I'm Ava.
I'm 16 and I go to a fruit of monument high school and I'm a senior now I bet somebody has caught on right away that oh They didn't say palisade. Hi. Did you catch it? I caught that you caught that I thought you would well and hang in there because in our next two will have one from Palisade and one from another school This is new and I love it.
I just love that it has opened up Ava What did you what did you think when you heard there was a possibility of becoming a peach festival? I thought it was really interesting because I never heard of the peach festival ambassadors But once I heard more about it, I thought that was super cool super unique and just such a great way to like represent the community Yes, and you can love the mic a little more I figure that might be a surprise, but really when you think about it our whole valley well and well beyond Love palisade peaches and we all kind of brag about them. Don't you think we do? Yes, indeed I love palisade peaches everywhere I go even outside of palisade into Grand Junction and to Montrose even I hear people talking about getting palisade peaches exactly Exciting event for a bunch of people it kind of brings people together which is why I'm so happy to be an ambassador for it Very good.
I know that the ambassadors were previously I think referred to as royalty like the peach. Yes, you're right You're right. I know I've had previous family members that have been the palisade peach queen Oh my goodness. Okay, my family's been here for a long time So I'm really excited kind of following their footsteps and be here to help people with the palisade peach festival and even invite people to it They do not know about it yet very good And what are the dates of the actual peach festival the actual dates are August 21st and 22nd and the schedule will be deferring on those two dates I know on August 21st on that Friday.
It will start at 3 p.m. To 9 p.m. And you know hold that thought because first we're going to Move to the peach days. All right.
I know that you've heard of the peach days And we were talking about that a little bit with all of you and what was one of the reasons why? We started peach days, so we kind of extend the celebration almost two weeks now There was just so much to do and we couldn't fit it in this two days. That's right. That is totally right It was like you take palisade which is a small town about 2,700 and suddenly they have like 15,000 20,000 people around and you girls will find this interesting that peach days actually went back to the 1800s late 1800s and they stretched it out for a week and it's simply because they were trying to harvest teachers and celebrate them and do All of these things at the same time and they didn't have as many helpers around and and so as everyone started to think about how As the peach festival has become more and more popular not only in Colorado and all over Colorado, but well beyond Everybody got to thinking that we want everybody to have a good experience So somebody said hey didn't they have peach days before and that's how it got all started now the first thing at peach days Ava is I believe the ice cream social is that right?
Yes, okay? What goes on at the ice cream social? Maddy or now I know you're new Ava and have you been to an ice cream social before I don't think I had okay Then let's go over to Maddy and you've been you know what? I have been to a few of the ice cream socials It's mainly just an opportunity for people to get ice cream if you've ever been to like one of our Instagram events where you get to be cops at Enstrom events and get to tour the vehicles It's somewhat in a similar matter, but more directed towards the Palisade peach festival right after the social We will have a tug of war contest and who's that between?
And if between the police and the fire department. Yeah, yes. Yes. Yeah, so how it's fun It's fun and they act like they're so tough and I'm gonna the police to say they were gonna beat those firemen and that and it's such a fun thing It really is neverbody's laughing and yelling and screaming so I scream with a little peach topping Who could say no to that exactly?
Yes, absolutely and then on Saturday So that's on a Thursday and then Saturday. There's some big events for the peach days and might you know those Ava the run? There's a 5k and 10k run. Oh, yeah, I do remember that is awesome.
Yeah, are you girls gonna do that? I would actually really love to I like running I've done sports for a long time. So I'd probably find on doing the 5k Yes, I have a feeling you will be in the parade as well, of course, so you will be busy And we need to have our Matty get up a little closer. No problem and speak up a little bit Okay, and on that note, we're not gonna tell them what we're gonna talk about when we come back They'll just have to wait so let us take a break right now