Elwood City Strawberry Festival

“	It's the biggest holiday of the year... Well, at least the biggest holiday this week.	”
—David Read, "How the Cookie Crumbles"

Elwood City Strawberry Festival
David Read waving to the crowd from a strawberry-shaped car
Type	Local celebration
Holder	Elwood City
Location	Elwood City
Frequency	Annual
Introduced In	My Club Rules
Latest Appearance	How the Cookie Crumbles

The Elwood City Strawberry Festival is an Elwood City celebration that takes place annually, first appearing in How the Cookie Crumbles. There are many different events during the festival, including a parade.

Key Participants

Ed Crosswire, Mr. Haney, Mr. Ratburn, David Read, The Parade Float Club (specifically D.W. Read, Muffy Crosswire, and Binky Barnes) are participants.

Thora Read has extensive knowledge of The Strawberry Festival. She says that all of Route 3 used to be strawberry fields. Now, David Read cooks for the parade while he and Thora introduce the parade to D.W. Read. It was revealed by Grandma Thora that the festival had always been David's favourite holiday. She had also said that there were always as many strawberries as you can eat.

D.W. Read has an idea of a Float for the parade. This float was built after D.W. schemed her way into The Parade Float Club. David Read had described it as "the biggest holiday of the year" until D.W. started asking grand questions about presents at Christmas, fireworks at 4 July, or a parade similar to Thanksgiving. He then changed it to "Well, it's the biggest holiday this week."

Mr. Haney rides atop a sixty foot tall fake tree while Mr. Ratburn is inside an enormous strawberry cake. Both floats proved disastrous.

Muffy Crosswire also has a longstanding history with The Strawberry Festival. She enters a prize winning baking contest. Her previous entry of Strawberry Cookies drew controversy when a citizen commented that Ed Crosswire was a judge for the contest. Ed sat out one year while Arthur, Francine, The Brain, and noticeably Binky provided ideas for new cookies.

Muffy now sells the Strawberry (with Banana) cookies regularly. They were previously named "Muffy's Scrumptious Snackeroodles", but then changed to "Muffy & Friends".

Events

Parades

Whether the parade is the same as Thanksgiving, The Strawberry Festival does have a parade. The floats do not necessarily have to be strawberry themed.

Contests

The Strawberry Dessert Contest takes place at the Sugar Bowl. Muffy had desired winning in How the Cookie Crumbles because last year, but others had said that she only won because her dad was the judge. She wanted to prove that she won fairly and not because of her dad, so this statement had put a lot of pressure onto her. Muffy did eventually win again, thanks to her friends who had jokingly made a batch of cookie dough.

Merchandise

• Muffy's Cookies.

Trivia

• If what Buster said in the opening of "Binky Rules" is true, then Elwood City is known as "The City of the Strawberries", explaining the historical significance of the festival.

Episodes

• My Club Rules
• How the Cookie Crumbles

See also

• Muffy's Cookie Castle

Gallery

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  First Bag for Muffy's Cookies

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  Huge Strawberry on top of Sugar Bowl

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  Previous Year

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  Barber Shop Quartet from festival

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  Part of the festival

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  Snake float from Bill's (Jack's) Joke Shop

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  David on a float

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  New bag for Muffy's cookies