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The State Fair Experience
Posted by Simple Dude | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 26-08-2011
Ever since I was a kid I have loved going to the State Fair and the Minnesota State Fair is the second biggest in the country – only Texas has a bigger one. But they cheat, their fair lasts twice as long as ours. In terms of daily attendance the Minnesota State Fair is the biggest, averaging about 150,000 people per day.
What does this mean to you? Not much. It just means that we have all the things you come to expect from a State Fair, but a hell of a lot more of them. Animals, rides, vendors, concerts every day and a hell of a lot of food. Last year at this time I was only a few weeks into my blogging experience and I wrote about the fair and what it means to me.
So I am going to share with you and oldie but goodie post going back to the early days of The Simple Dude. Here is a snippet of the State Fair post:
“I’m sure at some point you’ve been to your State Fair or at least a county fair, carnival etc. Here in Minnesota we have our annual State Fair going on right now. But this is not your normal fair, this is whatever you imagine a State or County Fair to be… but all hopped up on caffeine, steroids and a giant bucket of deep fried bacon grease……”
Read the rest of that post by CLICKING HERE. It’s one of my favorites from those early days… and as I mentioned in that post I work for a company that has a presence out there so I’ll be at the Fair a handful of days in the next week – including tonight.
I intend to share pics and fair experiences via Twitter so to stay up to speed on all the madness be sure you’re following me! @TheSimpleDude
I have a couple State Fair stories from my youth.. so maybe I’ll share one of those next week.
SD
our fair is coming early septemper :excited: I lerve the fair!
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@2:36 pm
Here in Texas at the fairs and rodeo, you can get deep fried everything. My fav is deep fried oreos. Last year they started deep fried butter… but that grosses me out. I tried deep fried cookie dough, but eh. Sounds better than it tastes.
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@2:40 pm
Can you get deep fried caffeine in the US?
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@2:48 pm
Dude,
Looking forward tothe fair updates, especially the pics! By the way, I need to lean to update my browser. I thought you hadn't made an update since the 13! I must say I didn't mind the extended viewing of the female pyramid
Dean
Http://leftcoastguy.com
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@4:22 pm
I live just a few short miles from the Texas state fair here in Dallas and I have gone most years. I know how crowded and crazy our state air gets, and if yours has more people than ours, omg i would never go! Ours hasn't started yet, it usually starts up around labor day… i think.
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@7:03 pm
I've never been to a big state fair, just a local county one. Sounds like something I need to experience…
Posted on: Aug/26/2011@9:13 pm
If you took Idaho's 3 state fairs (Eastern, Western and Northern) we would, well, it would still suck balls.
But mine starts next week. I'm looking forward to all the fun fair food and rides.
Posted on: Aug/27/2011@12:37 am
hmm… sounds fun! Ima have to go to a state fair someday… Too bad I'm Canadian!
Posted on: Aug/27/2011@4:51 am
I can't do fairs, after working at a carnival for three years then I try to avoid them at all costs.
Posted on: Aug/27/2011@5:33 am
Love the fact that your fair season actually coincides with our show season. How fun is that.
Our Show lasts a week, all the rides and sideshow stuff but I must admit very limited with food on a stick and butter sculptures.
I think I prefer our gourmet food and wine displays anyway personally
Posted on: Aug/27/2011@9:42 am
I go just for the deep fried animal vendors!
Posted on: Aug/28/2011@12:36 pm