Oktoberfest & San Francisco

We had a lovely day in San Francisco, Fred figured out that we walked a total of over 6 miles today! All in flip flops, which is not such a good idea, says the two blisters on my two feet.
We took the Caltrain to At&T park and then walked to Pier 48 for what I thought was going to be a fun and exciting Oktoberfest. Maybe because Oktoberfest in Milwaukee was supposed to be a big deal, even though I never went, but have heard about it in every state I have lived in since then, that it attracts big name singers and lots of fun stuff.
Not so fun here though, it was a large pier room with some vendors and lots of picnic tables full of people. There was also a largish band and a dance floor in front of it. We bought a sausage for 6 dollars, a side for 4 dollars and a large beer for 10 dollars. It was 30 dollars a ticket, but luckily we got them 2 for one for Sunday. That was about it, some people dressed up in German type clothes. We left after about 1 1/2 hours.
Then we walked up the Embarcadero, hoping to get some Salumi at Boccalone and alas, couldn't get the salumi cone as suggested on the Food Network episode we watched about a month ago because of a special fund raising dinner that was to be held in the hallways and had caused the stores to close early. So we bought a special kind of dry soda kumquat flavor for 3.25 which is a crazy price for some soda that didn't even taste any good at all.
Then we kept walking, stopped into Starbucks to try the Via test, which Fred and I both passed. If you have not been watching television commercials recently, it is Starbuck's new instant coffee. The taste test had two small paper cups of coffee, one instant and the other Starbuck's regular coffee. We could both tell the difference. Fred attributes it to all of the coffee samples he has at Trader Joes, since that is the only time he drinks coffee.
One interesting thing. Two people were walking in front of us and the lady gave a small Taco Bell bag to a man who was a little shaggy, but both Fred and I didn't think he was homeless. His socks were clean, and his backpack looked expensive. Anyways, she handed him the bag and I heard something behind me get thrown. He had thrown the bag next to the side of a building in rejection. Fred said that if he was given food from a stranger because she thought he was homeless he would throw it away too. But, I think I might have eaten it!