Everyone Loves A Sideshow!

[Primer]

Irv, Becks and I might have to hitchhike along with you this year. I'll pay for parking.

Is that the one in Wausau in August? I have to take this summer off work anyway.....

[Buglady]

Now I'm all hungry...

I had deep-fried macaroni & cheese at the Stampede 2 years ago. YUM. It was basically a little cheese fritter. My friend dared me to eat it and then stood there in total amazement as I joyfully took him up on that and also finished his bag of mini donuts and the battered veggies .

(I weighed 120 at the time, and I'm 5'8". Nobody ever believed it when I ate things like that. I've gained a little so I'm in a healthier weight range now but people still don't believe what I eat... what they don't realize is I have the metabolism of a hummingbird (or a shrew!) and that I ride my bike about 150 km a week from May to October).

Basically it comes down to: I will eat anything if it is deep-fried, sauteed with butter and garlic, and/or it comes on a stick . I tried a deep-fried Mars Bar last year and that was pretty yummy, though almost too sweet for me. (I'm not that keen on Mars Bars to start with, though).

[XCashier]

Some friends and I went to the NY State Fair one year, and took pictures of everything we ate and drank. Between the four of us, we had about 20 different items.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/jwheeler...fair_food_tour

Those wine slushies look yummy!

I miss the fry bread from the Arizona State Fair. I've never tried fried candy bars or any of those other new things, but they've never been offered either in AZ or OR (not that I've seen, anyway).

[Jack7957]

Some friends and I went to the NY State Fair one year, and took pictures of everything we ate and drank. Between the four of us, we had about 20 different items.
http://www.kodakgallery.com/jwheeler...fair_food_tour

[ArcticChicken]

1. Food-onna-stick is inherently better that food not onna-stick. I don't care what it is, you take it and affix it to a stick and it is better. Although that still won't make me eat broccoli.

2. Those shoe just jumped to second place on my Must Have!! list, preceded only by the portal gun.

[Becks]

Nope, Something about drinking milk in muggy, 90-degree weather is off-putting to me.

Wuss.

Irv, Becks and I might have to hitchhike along with you this year. I'll pay for parking.

I'll buy the first round of corn.

[Bella_Vixen]

Irv, Becks and I might have to hitchhike along with you this year. I'll pay for parking.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You don't get your flavored milk for a quarter??

Nope, Something about drinking milk in muggy, 90-degree weather is off-putting to me.

[Dreamstalker]

I love fried ice cream.

Chocolate-dipped bacon?! Yikes. Although I have had the Vosges "bacon bar" which isn't bad (milk chocolate with smoked bacon and hickory salt), so am wondering if it's a (very) rough approximation of that.

Deep-fried cappuccino?! I won't even ask.

My mom says state fairs are mindless wastes of time and money (why does every single activity have to have a purpose?) and my dad and I somehow always had something else conflicting with the NM State Fair

[Becks]

When I go there, I have to have a cream puff. Have to. I believe this is in the Constitution.

Also, an ear of corn from the New Berlin Lions Club booth.

You don't get your flavored milk for a quarter??

[Kogarashi]

Whenever I go to the county fair in my hometown, I just have to find the booth that's selling the batter-fried veggies. Nothing's quite as tasty (to me) as biting into deep-fried, batter-coated mushrooms and zucchini. Yum.

Sadly, that fair's not big enough to have any of the other fun novelty food. I'm seriously half-tempted to try one of those deep-fried candy bars. Or fried ice cream.

[CaroPhoenix]

I love going to the Maryland Fenn Faire. It has steak on a stake, cheesecake on a stick, and the huge turkey legs! They also have very large pickle. ().

I want chocolate dipped bacon & deep fried coke! Mr. Rum says "no". He's no fun.

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I haven't tried the stuff on a stick at the Wisconsin State Fair.

When I go there, I have to have a cream puff. Have to. I believe this is in the Constitution.

Also, an ear of corn from the New Berlin Lions Club booth. And at least one beer. If I don't have a pleasurable buzz going and corn mush between every tooth, I haven't truly visited the state fair.

This reminds me of a (sorta) funny story--one year me and my friends were perusing the schedule of events the day we were at the state fair, and one of the stages advertised "The Tom Green Show" at 2 pm or some such time.

This was when the only Tom Green show I knew of was on MTV. I watched it religiously. I was young and stupid then. Now I'm just stupid.

Anyhow, we went to the stage for the Tom Green show and were treated to--an Elvis impersonator. It turns out the local Elvis impersonator in Milwaukee is also named Tom Green.

[Cookiesaur]

And if you can't make it up to Stampede, come on over to the Texas State Fair. We've figured out how to deep fry coke and cappuccino as well as oreos, twinkies, and snickers bars.
Just watching the things people will eat is a show in and of itself.

Back in Canada, carnival food consisted of poorly made corn dogs, old candy apples, and cotton candy. I am continually flabbergasted at the things for sale down here at fairs, as much as I am bewildered and impressed at the notion of deep-fried coca cola. INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN. Oddly enough, I think what I find the strangest is the notion of turkey legs as a readily available midway snack. I know when I come off of the tilt-a-whirl the last thing I want is a piece of meat as big as my forearm.

There was a stand selling chocolate-dipped bacon. I was too afraid, but when we go back to watch the state roller derby championships tomorrow, I may bully my husband into trying it. "If you loved me you'd enter into potential severe gastrointestinal distress for me!"

Is deep-fried coke any good?

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