Day One At The State Fair
After my last long brick on Saturday (YAY!), kwokette, Carol and I headed down to the state fair for some good eats. I actually had a pretty decent day, all things considered. I didn’t eat nearly as much as I thought I might. I actually got full before I could do too much damage. Maybe my stomach has shrank? In any case, here is a photo tour of the trip (i.e. the food we had).
The ever popular “French Fries”. Nothing entirely special about these except that they’re cut in front of you from whole potatoes and lightly flavored with some seasoned salt. I saw a bunch of people putting some kind of vinegar over the top, but since we were sharing this batch between the three of us, I didn’t give it a try. Ketchup works fine for me.
“Hot Dish on a stick” - Minnesotans like their “hot dish” or what normal people would just call a casserole. I like them, but this was just totally over hyped and over rated. It was new to the fair this year. Really, it just tasted like corn dog breading - you couldn’t taste much of anything else.
“Aussie Fries” - Thinly sliced pieces of potato deep friend and the smothered with cheese sauce and ranch dressing. The first couple were OK. But really, I just liked the cheese and ranch dressing. The potatoes were just kind of bleh. I’d rather have had the sauce poured over the french fries above. That would have been better. Carol and kwokette had a couple. Between the three of us, we didn’t care to finish the plate.
“Big turkey sandwich” - This has officially become my favorite thing to eat at the fair. I think it’s just the meat from a deep fried turkey, but it’s ooooohhh so good. It’s salty and very juicy. I’m not sure if it’s from the turkey itself or from the oil, but it’s not all dry like post Thanksgiving turkey sandwiches tend to be. I had such a craving for this yesterday. I almost drove down to the fair, paid for parking, and paid to enter the fair just to eat one of these. Almost… they’re that good.
“Sweet Martha’s Cookies” - Sweet is an understatement. Of that entire cone, I think I had three cookies. I don’t have a huge sweet tooth and those were just total sugar overload. They were good, though. Hot, sticky, and gooey - just like I like em.
“Giant Spicy Beef Stick” - I think they’re supposed to be three feet, but it doesn’t look that long to me from the picture. It’s basically a giant, spicy Slim Jim. I should have gotten two.
“Strawberries and Cream” - I didn’t have this but the girls shared an order. I suppose I should mention that everything shown here are “single serving” portions unless otherwise specified. Meaning that I ate my portion and if the girls wanted one, they split an order between them. :)
“Pronto Pup” - A couple of folks were asking about them and now you know! It’s basically a corn dog. Technically, there is a difference between a Pronto Pup and a corn dog but they taste the same to me. Maybe someone more knowledgeable can enlighten us all?
“Elephant Ear” - I was craving something sweet. There was TONS of sugar on this thing. Not even all the butter they painted across the surface could soak it all up. Kwokette had a bite of this and I think Carol had two. I batted clean up.
“Pork Chop on a stick” - This used to be my favorite thing at the fair. It’s still good, but the original pork chop stand that I liked isn’t at the fair anymore for whatever reason. This is an OK attempt at keeping my previous favorite thing alive, but it’s just not the same.
That’s all for fair food. I ate like absolute crap yesterday too, which wasn’t expected so I may just forgo my second eating trip to the fair. I’ll weigh in on Friday and reassess the situation. :)
Oh! And again for Mojo… we passed by this while we were at the fair. I guess they’re not just a southern thang! :)
Have a great Monday, everyone!