The Minnesota State Fair started today. I don’t claim to be an expert on the fair by any means. I went for the first time last year, and I will say the various fried whatever on a stick was wonderful. I’m pretty sure I spent as much on an afternoon / evening of food there as I would have at a fancy restaurant, and I would totally do it again. The deep fat fried pickles were way better than I expected, and the deep fat fried candy bar on a stick is much better if you let it cool just a little to a more gooey state if you get it fresh right out of the fryer. Everything else is just sort of a blur of fried wonderfulness.
The other great part of the State Fair is, of course, the people watching. Last year some co-workers and I took an afternoon off to go, and one of them forwarded us people watching fair bingo cards (pdf). I have no idea where it came from originally, so I unfortunately can’t credit whoever it was that originally came up with it, just got it as an email forward. It’s great, terrible, but great. Not having been to the State Fair before, I mostly thought it was a joke. Not so. We forgot to print off cards before we left, but by the end we were pretty sure we were playing for a black out card instead of a simple line, and I think we all would have won pretty easily.
