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By: Kristine

Kristine — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:55:04 +0000

County Fair food always make me go off track and I look forward every year to some new weird food on a stick. And funnel cakes, I dare say are near orgasmic when done right! And thank God I know how to cook yummy sinfully tasteful but healthy food to balance out the party days of summer. Check out this 3 minute recipe http://blog.thecleanseexpert.com/

By: Jim Bearce

Jim Bearce — Wed, 22 Sep 2010 14:00:18 +0000

I think foods you can walk around with is great, Pork tenderloins in Ohio are as big as a large olatem thats worth your money.. I sell home made fudge. but it is the last food you take home…Oh its great teasten fudge..lol

By: D.K.Landers

D.K.Landers — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 00:01:49 +0000

As a kid in Kansas, freshly-twirled cotton candy was my favorite at the state fair in Hutchinson ! One server showed me the special wrist action required to get the candy to stick to the paper cone. To this day, I resist packaged cotton candy, the packaging deflates some of the delicious airiness of the freshly-twirled.

By: Nell Madison

Nell Madison — Sat, 05 Sep 2009 14:50:35 +0000

The State Fair of Texas is the birth place of the Fletcher’s Corndog. When I was a kid, Old Man Fletcher still dipped them himself, at the booth by the midway. He was a rotund fellow with the best bellowing hawking voice in the business.

It is still a must-have fall tradition to go to the State Fair and have a freshly-dipped and fried Fletcher’s Corndog. YUMMMM!
Just a few weeks away.

By: June

June — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 00:28:02 +0000

I grew up in way Upstate New York, and our fair has also changed, but there is still a lot of agriculture here, especially locally grown foods. The 4-H, fireman and other local groups provide lots of the food. My favorite, however is the salted carnie french fries. Also, some booths serve a pepperoni sandwich – slices of pepperoni in tomato sauce served in a heel of bread.

By: Brad A.

Brad A. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 03:10:57 +0000

I grew up in Minnesota, and saw the fair gradually get less agricultural in nature (the shrinking of “machinery hill”). The food was always great- mini doughnuts crunchy with sugar and cinnamon and burning hot when you get them in the paper sack, honey ice cream with sunflower seeds, cheese curds with lingonberry sauce, a big paper cup full of hot chocolate chip cookies (conveniently located near the all-you-can-drink milk bar). Lots of fried things on sticks, but you didn’t want to fill up too fast on mediocre food- pacing and deliberation were key…

By: Denise S.

Denise S. — Fri, 14 Aug 2009 00:19:50 +0000

Like Amanda, I have grwew up in Vermont and frequented the Champlain Valley Fair, my favorite is and always will be Al’s French Frys. But in recent years I have gained a new perspective for those that actually make the food since I have been volunteering as a server at the local Field Days in the volunteer fire departments food booth. Lots of hard work and lots of good food! Our nachos and chilli cheese fries are excellent I hear.

By: Debbie Salzer

Debbie Salzer — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 20:48:03 +0000

At the N.C. State Fair, you can buy cotton candy made with maple sugar. It is off white, and DELICIOUS!

By: Beth Py-Lieberman

Beth Py-Lieberman — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:32:40 +0000

When I rode in Ragbrai, a bike ride across Iowa that’s sort of like a state fair on wheels, last summer, vendors hawked ribeye and pork chops on a stick. As weird as it was, ribeye on a stick was pretty tasty.

By: Charles F.

Charles F. — Thu, 13 Aug 2009 16:12:44 +0000

Jello puddin pops