Everyone Loves A Sideshow!

[cawaker]

Bravo! Bravo!

[tphillip]

Demolition Derbies

If you're going to a State/County fair, the required activity is the demolition derby. Especially if they're using school buses or Combines.

Watching these two story farm vehicles flip on their sides is always hilarious.

[Toujin]

I *live* for the Virginia State Fair!

Where else can you see a guy with a chainsaw carve a block of wood into an owl? Or art and crafts that you wouldn't believe were made by kids? Or ducklings playing on a little slide? Or chicks hatching? And so on...

Of course, I love the food there too! Buffalo burgers, fried oreos, huge bowls of curly fries, fresh-made apple cider, kettle corn...

I particularly love hanging around the animal areas, and impressing people with my knowledge of the various breeds. I also once caught a runaway goat.

[AlmightyALT]

FUNNEL CAKE! FUNNEL CAKE! It's the law in Texas! When you visit a fair, faire (Four Winds Faire... the live blade show, the non-rehearsed jousting, forging blades with my karate sensei! I miss you! ), or massive flea market (Canton Trade Days, how I miss thee and your three massive areas of market fleas!) you *must* have funnel cake! Batter squeezed out of an icing tube into a deep fryer until golden brown and then covered with a layer of powdered sugar. The game was to be the one without it all over you by the end!

[Alpha Strike]

I had a BITE of someone's deep fried candy bar this year. I think I nearly blacked out and I couldn't hear over the din of my arteries hardening and my thighs getting bigger.

I'm envious of all you folks who can still still stuff their faces with carnival food. I use to LOVE going to fairs and amusement parks partly because I could gorge myself on (badly over-priced) fried foods and chocolate coated sweets.

Now that I'm not in my teens or twenties anymore, my body has decided that I need to be punished any time I eat foods like this and it's just not a fun experience any more.

[Cookiesaur]

I had a BITE of someone's deep fried candy bar this year. I think I nearly blacked out and I couldn't hear over the din of my arteries hardening and my thighs getting bigger.

[dalesys]

Any Prairie Oysters on a stick?

Well, that's one way of getting a pair.

[RootedPhoenix]

Any Prairie Oysters on a stick?

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! !!!

Seconded!

What's wrong? They come with a stick, so on a stick is a natural development.

Yeah...kind of..but..*cringe*

I want to try a deep fried Mars Bar now that several people have mentioned it. Sounds like I need to go to the state fair this year. *starts piggy bank savings*

[Rapscallion]

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! !!!

What's wrong? They come with a stick, so on a stick is a natural development.

Rapscallion

[Bella_Vixen]

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

We're mentioning the State Fair that's held in Milwaukee in August...but you mention the (whatever county Wausau is in) county fair? *pondering* I should see what I can do when August gets here.

[JoitheArtist]

Any Prairie Oysters on a stick?

EEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeewwwwwwwwwwwwwww! !!!

[Jack7957]

Those wine slushies look yummy!

They are. Unfortunately this past year, they changed alot of things. Now you get a 10oz cup, instead of the "almost a whole bottle" size you see in the pics. And you can now longer walk around the fair with it, you are supposed to stay in the Wine Garden.

[tropicsgoddess]

Your hubby RAWKS!!! You did say that this took place in Florida, what part was it in? (I live in South Florida...)

[froglet]

Come to Calgary this summer. You and I MUST go to Stampede together. There are many, many things on sticks to eat - a large percentage of which are also deep-fried!

Any Prairie Oysters on a stick?

[dalesys]

1. Food-onna-stick is inherently better that food not onna-stick.

Isn't that the business model of CMOT Dibbler?