Cheese the Day: A Festival of All Things Pimento
One park. 50+ vendors. Infinite cheese-based creativity.
Shannon
April 06, 2025
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Mark your calendars and stretch your stomachs: the only pimento cheese festival in the nation returns to Downtown Cary Park on April 12, from 11–4 pm! Expect over 50 vendors slinging wildly delicious dishes—yes, including the infamous pimento cheese ice cream (it’s weirdly amazing). Live music, games, and good vibes all day long.
This isn’t sponsored (we’d let you know if Big Cheese paid us). We just really believe in cheese-based community bonding. (Just so you know: Sponsored content in our newsletter is always marked with “*”).
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