The first thing you need to know about the Oatmeal Festival is that there’s very little oatmeal involved. There’s an Oatmeal Bake Off that’s judged in private, and there’s Oatie, the mascot who’s an anthropomorphic can of oats, represented this year by a costumed teenager.In hindsight, after attending the forty-sixth annual event last Saturday, that makes complete sense. The Oatmeal Festival isn’t even in Oatmeal—it’s in Bertram, a town with roughly 1,800 residents, about forty miles northwest of Austin and five miles from the actual hamlet of Oatmeal. Though neither of these places is known for growing oats, you might be forgiven for thinking this was a celebration of local agriculture. After all, the Poteet Strawberry Festival, the Pecos Cantaloupe Festival, and the Texas Citrus…
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