Fried Butter On A Stick! (State Fair Mania)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXJ2jdar13s&feature=related

or county fair mania. the county fair here is in the beginning of september.

Indian River Olde Time Lumberjack Show
Robinson's Racing Pigs
Shriner's Clowns
Flying High Frisbee Dogs
Western Mass Truck Pull
Stoney Roberts Demolition Derby
Texaco Country Showdown
EMS Parade & Firefighters' Muster
Fiesta Shows Midway
Agricultural Exhibits and Competitions
AND MORE!

kinda want to go to the big e this year. still have never been.

http://www.thebige.com/fair/

joey molland of badfinger and freestyle legend shannon are performing at the big e this year. not together though.

They used to get some big names...Beyonce, Cheap Trick, Journey...

Butter artist in-residence Jim Victor, dressed warmly and armed with a myriad of sculpting tools, takes to our specially designed cooler under the Mallary Rotunda, where he will sculpt an original piece of art from more than 600 pounds of butter donated by Agrimark/ Cabot Creamery. This year’s sculpture will depict a barefoot boy riding an ox through a field.

times must be tough, i guess!

they have a been called hot chelle rae playing, but i don't know them. they are having alan jackson. country dudes are always big fair draws. no matter where you are.

The one time I went, I saw Bjorn Again and ate an Italian sausage slathered with jalapenos and nacho cheese. I will never forget that night as long as I live.

2012 Cheese Grant

A limited number of grants are available. In an effort to relieve the cost of competition participation on the cheese maker the following grants have been made available. A limited number of $25 grants are available courtesy of donations made by cheese enthusiasts.

there was a NYT story on the Iowa fried fare today. When I read about the double-bacon double-corn dog, I could only think KEEP IAN OUT OF IOWA.

there are 14 classes of cheese at the big e gold metal cheese competition.

the deep fried ham-wrapped pickle didn't really sound all that appealing to me.

The New York State Fair has announced its newest food oddity that can only be found at a Fair. It's called the Big Kahuna Donut Dog.

The Big Kahuna Donut Dog is a hot dog wrapped in bacon inside of a maple glazed long john donut.

More food choices at this year's State Fair will be Tikki Turtle's fresh ground hamburger topped with deep fried mac and cheese, Deep Fried Specialties' deep fried lasagna, deep fried fluff and banana sandwiches, deep fried brownies, and deep fried peanut butter and deep fried jelly beans.

grew up going to (and later working at) the ny state fair, go back every year, can't wait for labor day weekend this year. the big kahuna donut dog!

the identity of the butter sculpture is a closely-guarded secret until the day the fair opens, but nothing can possibly be lamer than last year's - "a tribute to the food service cafeteria workers in schools through New York State."

http://i.ytimg.com/vi/K6yLhjMLXPU/0.jpg

YOKES - If a participant uses a certain style yoke for one class, the same style yoke should be used for all three
classes. This may include a neck yoke, head yoke or sliding yoke.

oh, man, a lunch lady butter sculpture! will wonders never cease?

I'll be in Minnesota for the State Fair this year, super psyched. Will prob go twice.

I'm looking for the press release, but we got one from the Arkansas State Fair a few years ago where they were bragging that it had been selected as one of the Top 50 state fairs in the country.

hahaha

When I went to the CA State Fair a few years ago, all the food was disappointing except for the roasted corn. New Mexico State Fair was 50x better.

California State Fair came and went. I didn't go :(

I'd like to go to a county fair

man gtfo you are all just swimming in our wake

Yeah, I'd like to go to MN, TX and ME state fairs for the eats.

i kinda hate the pig racing guy at the fair here. he used to do the fair on marthas vineyard too. he's a raging republican and all his pigs have democrat names. hillary rodHAM clinton.

Our pig racing guy is from Missouri, and everyone's always like, wtf, we can't have our own pig guy?

"Hey, I hear you guys like to call the Hogs!" YES WE DO, YOU YANKEE.

A friend of mine just won blue ribbons at the Cuyahoga County Fair for both her corn cookies and her sesame bagels. I didn't get to eat any of them :(

MO is not yankee!

it is to someone from AR--that's the whole joke

you fool

They're north of the Mason/Dixon, they call Coke "pop", they have no dry counties and I hear some of them are even Catholic.

joey molland of badfinger and freestyle legend shannon are performing at the big e this year. not together though.

too bad cause "no matter what" and "let the music play" are two of my all-time songs, would've been a divine convergence (or a trainwreck)

my freind richard's dad took us to the ohio state fair in 1970, i remember riding the huge double ferris wheel and narrowly escaping a fight w/farm boys. maybe we looked at their prize pigs funny? we ate foot long hot dogs and rich's dad wanted to find a "yard long beer" to wash his down. he was a big man.

ag fair on marthas vineyard is always a good time. so old fashioned. 151st year this year. one of the few things i looked forward to every year on the island. its this weekend too. gonna miss the b-b-q guy. good stuff.

This year's theme: "DISPLAY WITH PRIDE"

COMING SOON! Application for Corn Husking event at the Fair!!!

IMPORTANT NOTICE TO POULTRY OWNERS: PLEASE READ NOTICE AT THE BOTTOM OF THIS PAGE!

jesse james was a missourian, what do a people have to damn do

ahem I would like to inform you all that when I was in 2nd Grade I won FIRST PRIZE at the Colac Show for my awesome painting of cherry blossom trees.

*drops mic*

big e is cool, i gave out mustard samples there once in college & made $50 i think. i miss the apple flappins dearly tho

Iowa State Fair uber alles

yeah iowa seems like fair heaven.

the bud tent, afaik, still holds the record for most budweiser sold in a single location per year. and it's only open for the length of the state fair. my friend's boss's family apparently owns it, meaning they have the lease for that slice of real estate on the fairgrounds in perpetuity. i've been told that the proprietor only has that business, and just chills the rest of the year.

http://www.thebudtent.com/

when will the humans stop eating fat!

banaka is around today, perhaps he can weigh in

i kinda hate the pig racing guy at the fair here. he used to do the fair on marthas vineyard too. he's a raging republican and all his pigs have democrat names. hillary rodHAM clinton.

― scott seward, Thursday, August 16, 2012 11:17 AM (40 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Pretty sure we get the same guy down here, unless this is a thing among travelling racing pig owners...

bud tent dude~

Iowa State Fair Beer Stand Owner Claims Obama Visit Cost Him $25,000. David Jackson, in a post for USA Today (8/15, 1.78M), reports that Mike Cunningham, "the owner of a famous beer stand at the Iowa State Fair says President Obama's visit last night cost him as much as $25,000. The Bud Tent, which has been serving fairgoers for 65 years, had to be shut down to the public during the presidential drop-in; patrons had to be screened and scanned before being allowed entry. ... 'I wouldn't have voted for (Obama) before,' Cunningham said. 'I won't again.'"

yeah he's full of shit, but they really do clear a hell of a lot of money through that place

Does anyone else have FIGURE EIGHT RACING at their local county fair? I live for that shit.

beer + fat + racing = $

figure eight racing is a county fairground staple!

unlike other forms of car racing, there is no illusion that people are not interested in seeing crashes

fkin idiot as if that wouldn't happen if ANY president visited his fkin tent...

There's a whole family that seriously DOMINATES the local figure eight racing circuit, it's hilarious; like three brothers and a cousin I think that just take turns winning every year.

Occasionally, a woman will enter the competition, and we will be constantly reminded of this by the emcee referring to her exclusively as "the lady driver" throughout the race.

if you don't want the president coming to your tent just tell the million people who you have to talk to beforehand that you don't want the president visiting your tent!

people loved to complain about obama coming to marthas vineyard too and they all voted for him there. people just like to complain.

well, not everyone. there are actual republicans on marthas vineyard.

I hear Obama is confiscating tents at state fairs and turning them into "Socialist Gay Satanist Centers"

I'll be in Minnesota for the State Fair this year, super psyched. Will prob go twice.

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:00 PM (1 hour ago)

dude your life is about to become one step closer to complete

obama is replacing the budweiser with his own muslim honey ale.

http://www.mediaite.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/09/white-house-honey-ale.jpeg

Beer in the post-American era.

I hear Obama is confiscating tents at state fairs and turning them into "Socialist Gay Satanist Centers"

― Sweet Yin Yang ☯ (Latham Green), Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:14 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Prize winning pig gets to serve on a Death Panel

Even though I generally approve of Obama I would not want ot have a beer with him - it would feel awkward. I'd rather have coffee. Beer says "Lets be friends" but coffee says "Lets discuss the issues"

I'm known to rant about politics after a few beers, he'd probably tell me to slow my roll

I'll be in Minnesota for the State Fair this year, super psyched. Will prob go twice.

― Lewis Apparition (Jon Lewis), Thursday, August 16, 2012 4:00 PM (1 hour ago)

dude your life is about to become one step closer to complete

― O_o-O_O-o_O (jjjusten), Thursday, August 16, 2012 1:15 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Well I've been like 20 times (grew up there, and we usually try to time our annual visit to my mom to coincide w/fair time. But the last 2 years there was the indie comix show which we wanted to xzibit at so we timed around that instead. So yeah, starved for Fair.)

I even worked for the carnies on the Midway for a month when I was 15! I was in one of the popcorn n soda wagon-thingies apprenticed to a humanimal named Stacey who looked like Pete Rose with a huge fro.

The MN State Fair has poutine this year:

http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/c0.0.403.403/p403x403/390836_10151007669143479_326840893_n.jpg

Those are some crisp 20s.

http://i.imgur.com/DuEyU.jpg

Huh. He folds em in a bill clip instead of a wallet?

xpost they must be inspired by the Poutine house in the Art Shanties.

What would he carry in a wallet? His birth certificate?

I bet he misses Reggie at times like that.

Jon you should hit me up while you are in town and we could go grab a drink. if you drink. if not you can just watch me drink or something.

i was gonna say that on one of the MN threads. I think I am there at the same time as DJP? Would fap! (And in fact LOL I am not allowed to drink b/c of my bad guts but I just play pretend with a bitters & soda, it's cool)

i have to remind myself that olde-ilx slang is different from the rest of the internet...

I think our next president should be some kinda robot

Lucky for you because there's one on a major party ticket this year.

Mormon-bot? I think the evangelicals will really feel bad about voting for him, very conflicted.

big e what

emu oil http://t.co/cd0xmCM0Zr

fried doodoo on a stick

banana dipped in chocolate and rolled in bacon is a big thing.

i was so close to getting a deep fried moon pie but I had to leave early

"spam dippers" at this year's ny state fair. literally the most disgusting thing i've ever eaten, and i've eaten balut (and at guy's american kitchen and bar)

spam dippers? Dare I ask? D:

I'm still trying to get over the mention upthread of deep fried fucking JELLY BEANS urrrrgh.

spam dippers were breaded deep-fried slabs of spam, basically, with sweet and sour sauce

i wasn't opposed to it in concept - it's totally possible to do something good with spam, and the normal rules of food obviously fly out the window at the state fair - but that was before i realized that breading and frying spam like that makes it all dried-out and grainy in this really gnarly way. maybe it could have been successful with a different batter? either way it was fucking gross

alternate possibility: it could have been treet or a similar low-budget spam analog

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_fritter

loved these at school dinners when i was a kid.

Couples can apply for The Big E McNuptials contest on Facebook. All you need is a picture of you and your significant other, plus a love story about why you’re the perfect pair to be married at the Giant Slide. Oh, and you must be over 18!

oh yeah and - http://www.thebige.com/blog/dj-paris-hilton-at-the-big-e/