The fair is in town and to a foodie like me, that means it’s corn dog season. I look forward to this rare occasion each year.
But really? It’s not just the corn dogs. There’s SO MUCH to love about the fair…
The smell of old grease and frying food, people walking around eating meat straight off a turkey leg bone, skeletal carnies with long, greasy hair and a Marlboro Red hanging out of one side of their mouth, roses airbrushed onto license plates, hastily put together rides that make you dizzy and blare songs by Queen, the smell of horse shit, aggressive goats, cows giving birth in front of you while you eat a caramel apple, mullets, extra large people wearing extra small clothes, children with dirty faces and snotty noses, people wearing clever T-shirts that say things like, “I know Jack Schitt,” body odor, cowboy boots, ropers, Wranglers, and large belt buckles, concerts by bands popular in the late 70′s, handmade quilts, homemade pies, blue ribbons, prize winning cucumbers, Gospel tents, unattainable large, stuffed animals, preteen love, angst, and braces, and Camaros with t-tops.
What’s not to love?!
Ummm, you forgot to mention ‘porta-shitters’ You can’t mention the fair and not mention the facilities that come along with it (;
Have a great weekend!
OH no, now I’ve got “The fair is a veritable smorgasbord” song from Charlotte’s Web stuck in my head!
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I think you summed it up nicely.
I might add the mastery of frying anything that is no longer moving regardless of it’s composition.
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chocolate covered bacon. Find it.
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LMAO “I know Jack Schitt.” Never. Gets. Old.
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CORN DOGS!! And caramel apples!! LOVE THEM!
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I love the fair! Here’s why: http://newbabynews.blogspot.com/2008/08/day-at-fair-complete-with-hot-sex.html
I’m sorry, I hate it when people leave links to their blog posts in comments. I’ll never do it again. But I just had to share my fair love!
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I miss the fairs in Iowa more than I can say.
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Our fair is featuring deep fried butter this year
I love sausage on a stick.. roasted corn… hot pretzels.. turkey legs and all the other gastronomic delights that await you.. and the tums at the end of the night
HAVE FUN! Can’t wait to see pics and hear stories
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HA! I have to laugh. My one and only experience of a US Fair is the Strawberry Festival in Plant City Florida – and boy have you described it to a TEE!
mmmm. I love fair food. Chicken on a Stick, those crazy curly potato things, funnel cake, Deep Fried anything… Ours is not until November so I will have to wait a while.
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LOVE fairs. this years make me sick food though … a pot roast sundae. basically pot roast and gravy on mashed potatoes made to look like an ice cream sundae. ew. then again … i’m pregnant.
favorite shirt of this year? i’d do me.
worn by a beer gut old guy.
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Please tell me there was not seriously a cow giving birth in front of you while you ate a caramel apple! I’m not sure whose rights were more violated in such a situation, yours or the poor cow’s…
Also, have you ever tried a fried Oreo?
I totally read “skeletal carnies with long, greasy hair” as skeletal CANINES and for a second I thought you must hate dogs. Then I wondered why the dogs at your fair smoked. Then I went back and reread it properly, and now I feel dumb.
I hope your family as a wonderful time at the fair!
Last time I had a pumpkin funnel cake. Yum!
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I love the fair! We have the Topsfield Fair, here in MA and it is huge. One of the country’s oldest fairs. I go every year and can’t wait until my girls are anxiously awaiting it every year. Our one week to go all townie…
Yah. I know Jack Schitt. A nefarious character in Jasper FForde’s book, “Lost in a Good Book”. Really.
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all about food on a stick! and deep fried oreos! We didn’t make it this year and I am bummed about that
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We just went to the fair in Abingdon, VA last week in order to give my best friend (from way up north!) a taste of the south. We ate at the chili-cook off, and one of the tasters was wearing overalls, a bra, and nothing else. Gotta love the county fair!
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My favorite hat at this years county fair; ” RIP Dale Earnhart. God must have needed a driver”. Favorite t-shirt; “I’m not a redneck. I’m an Ozark-American.”
We have a local fair this weekend. I’m so excited. At our local fairs, we have a lot of local places that come out with homemade country food delicacies. It’s awesome. I can’t pass up a batch of chicken’n'dumplins made by an 80 year old woman. They rock my socks off.
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Little known fact…I worked the funnel cake booth at the fair. I make a mean funnel cake:P
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It’s rare that I smile all the way through a post. I thoroughly enjoyed your post. I can relate to most everything you said. It would be interesting to know what state and or city you were in. I love everything about the fair that you mentioned but for me it’s the huge Cinnamon Rolls, no funnel cakes for me. I missed the fair this year because it was simply too hot. After reading your post I feel like I was there. Thanks so much. Great Post.
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I’m dropping you a comment here about one of your posts I just read re: Alabama. I had a problem leaving a comment there. Anyway, Let me say that I don’t usually spend this much time (only 2 posts) reading any particular blog but as they say somewhere “there’s a first time for everything.” I do enjoy your writing and your stories. Re: Alabama-I was born and raised in Arkansas until age 15. I’m 64 now but, I have a vivid memory of the southern people, they’re ways and style etc. I’m glad to see some things haven’t changed in the South (like Church and manners). Having visited only once since I left (and being from California) my only real annoyance was that I kept wanting them to “speed-up”-get to the point-finish the sentence as I looked at my watch. I think they are for the most part delightful folks that will help wherever they can if you need help. “Bless her heart” is so true and that apparently hasn’t changed either. I’m sure folks in (I think you said Iowa-forgive me if I have that wrong) are salt of the earth folks as well but without the accent. All the best.
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