State Fair

Last weekend, husby and I ventured out to the State Fair. It is tradition for us, every end of September, to grab hands and head out to the fair.

Not for the rides.

Not for the gimmick items (though I love them).

Not for the animals and shows.

But for....THE FOOD.

Husby and I are Fair-Food-Freaks. We strategically plan out what we will eat before going and scour the newspaper for the "new novelty food". This year, it was "salad-on-a-stick", but we could not find it. Sad, because I really wanted a picture of it.

I am here to journal our fair experience and all of the thousands of calories we consumed. But don't worry - we shared each thing we ate. :)

We started the night off with an extra long corn dog. Nothing says Fair Food like an enormous corn dog. He likes ketchup on his, and I like mustard, so we had to alternate bites to satisfy each of our palates.



It's amazing to me all of the "food-on-a-stick" is represented at the fair. Cheese-on-a-stick is my FAVORITE, so that was our next stop.



Keeping with our long, cylinder theme, we got a piping hot, fresh, corn on the cob....dipped in a vat of butter and sprinkled with salt and pepper. Oh man, oh man....



After a few minutes of relaxing and people watching, we headed to the Polish Sausage stand. It was covered in peppers and onions and made our taste buds dance with glee!!





After this, we were tired of savory foods, so we walked around the buildings to check out what kind of gimmicks they were selling this year. It was fantastic.

We stumbled upon an Apple Fritter booth, and stopped dead in our tracks and wiped the drool from our mouths. Guess what our next purchase was?



Ay-yai-yaiiii!



It was ridiculously good. Ridiculous.

A few hours had passed since we arrived, and things were winding down. We were miserably full, but we had to persevere.

It was tradition, after all. ;)

Our last stop (or so we thought) was a cool and refreshing pineapple whip. YUM!



It is a pretty, light pink color with a mild pineapple taste. It will blow your mind.

As we headed out of the fair, already reminiscing of the fabulous evening we had, I had a sudden impulse. I smelled the jalepenos and simply HAD to have some nachos.

I thought, "Hey, why not? What's a few more calories at this point?"



They were delicious.

Husby rolled me to the car, and we ended the evening watching TV and falling asleep on the couch. It was yet another, fantastic night at the fair with the husby.

Can't wait 'til next year!

What's your favorite fair food?