THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR

Here are some photos from our visit today to the Minnesota State Fair, where you can get pretty much any kind of fine cuisine as long as it has been fried in fat. They also have sculptures made from large wads of butter, but you are not permitted to eat those, as far as we could determine.

Comments

[GJ]

Dave, does the Minnesota reptile show have reptiles that fall out of trees onto your head just like Florida?

[man tom]

Those Australian Battered Potatoes are some of the most deadly poisonous battered potatoes known.

[man tom]

*Of interest*

A receptionist we employed at one time, most often working with a considerable illiterate nature deficit, left a written message for us.

It read, someone from Minniesoda called and left this number, 1-900-...

Hey, Have lots of feun and eet good fuod there in Minnesoda.

[pogo]

Please donate to "The Home for Battered Potatoes".

[Meanie the Blue]

How come cheese curds get their own entrance?

[Steverino]

When we lived in Minneapolis, we went to the fair several times. It's fun the see all the animals. The livestock, too.

[Minny Sotta]

Minnesota, where we do everything Wisconsin does but better, because we put it on a stick.

[Burt Macklin, FBI]

How tall do the cheese curds have to be?

[Pullet Surprise]

I took note of it seemed that really old, former famous rock groups eventually wound up performing at state fairs, e.g., Paul Revere and the Raiders, Steppenwolf, the Beau Brummels, America, and the like. Seemed that was sort of a suspended-twilight era for them. Plus those state fairs usually occur at the end of summer when it is incredibly hot and those old rock geezers where out there trying to recapture something they once had 30 years ago.

Could the same thing be said about Pulitzer Prize authors? "Now appearing on the Florida Stage, right next to the Cheese Curd booth, is Mr. Dave Barry reading from some of his famous works. And remember folks, don't leave your mayonnaise out in the sun."

[man tom]

Cause for alarm the entire state of Minnesota is forging ahead into an insuppressible chaotic downward spiral leading to total anarchy.

[JG]

man tom - Next year, they're be a booth combing the total anarchy' and round, flavorful crackers.
It'll be called 'Putine on the Ritz'

[Rod]

Dave, stop playing in the minors. You have to see the State Fair of Texas. Starts the last weekend of September. All that good fried stuff you see elsewhere has its origins here. Except the poutine. Nobody here has ever heard of it.