Old Brooklyn PierogiFest - Cleveland, Ohio

This post documents my experience on August 10, 2019.

This year, when Mary Queen of Peace transformed their annual Summerfest into the new Old Brooklyn PierogiFest…

…many pierogi-loving festival goers responded…

…arriving en masse from the start of the festival (3 pm)…

…and easily waiting 1-2 hours in line for their Polish dumping fix.

I arrived later on with my family, showing up at a quarter to 7…

…when only two pierogi food vendors were present (they also sold other Polish dishes)…

…and the lines were too long for a family with two hungry kids.

But things were worse than it seemed.

Shortly after we were about to get some lemonade (shortly after they just ran out of that), I learned that there were actually no pierogi left at the festival.

The vendors had sold out of pierogi!

The pierogi were gone.

Here’s what happened:
Four vendors were originally scheduled, but one was a no-show.
With the crowds that came, the church sold out of their frozen pierogi in 1.5 hours, The Pierogi Lady (not present when I arrived) sold all of her inventory not long after and then the final two vendors sold all of their pierogi somewhere in the 6 o’clock hour…

…a little more than 3 hours after the festival opened.