This week was time for the annual County Fair, so like the lemming that looks for it’s cliff, I was off the check out the fair and make sure that nothing had changed.  (Nothing had, really).

It’s said that an army marches on it’s stomach, and so too do crowds of people.   This food booth featured things that it is possible to fry, and things that you might not think to fry, like pickles.   The various things on a stick, from alligator to chicken reminded me of a character in the Discworld novels of Terry Pratchett who offered a variety of things “on a stick”.

And if you sell lemonade you might as well paint your business lemon yellow so you can’t miss it.

If your food is All-American the Statue of Liberty can help you to sell it.

If your penguins are overheating, then you must get them some shave ice.   And it was hot enough to overheat one’s penguins.

And fry bread is not limited to pow-wows, but to make really good fry bread one must be an old lady (like me!).

This was the only food trailer from a local place.   Their version of a small ice cream cone would be called a large anywhere else.   It’s so good that even employees from the rides came over to get some.   (I did mention that it was hot).

Funnel cakes (I think this is pancake batter deep fried in a spiral and topped with powdered sugar) and corn dogs (hot dogs on a stick dipped in a cornmeal batter and deep fried) are traditional fare at the fair.   Really most of this food is not that great, being deep fried, but it is part of the essential atmosphere of any fairground or festival anywhere in the world.  Next up, the big one, the State Fair.