texasmonthly.com
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 northwe…
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