Fair Food

    There is much I love about Columbus, Ohio, not the least of which is The Ohio State Fair, which graces our fair city every year for the first two weeks in August, sometimes attracting close to a million people.
    I won't go so far as to say that during the 37 years Tom and I have lived in Columbus we've never missed the Fair; I will say that in all those years we've probably only missed the Fair once or twice. Maybe three times.
    Anyway, when August rolls around we do love us some State Fair.

   Last Saturday  we made our annual pilgrimage accompanied by our daughter Theresa and her hubby Phill, happy campers in spite of the long lines to get into the fairgrounds.

​    In fact it was the general consensus among our none-the-less patient and good-natured fellow line-standers that this was the biggest crowd and the longest wait at the entrance gate that any of us could recall.  But it was a friendly crowd.

        After we made it into the fairgrounds our first objective  was to find some food, which doesn't take  a whole lot of effort at the Fair,

   ...especially if you're a gourmet of deep-fried food, for which its prodigious variety the Ohio State Fair is famous:

    And let us not forget the Krispy Kreme Donut Burger, which is as hamburger with two glazed donuts for a bun and the newest gustatory addition, the Sloppy Donut.

Which begs the question:  Is there nothing we Ohioans won't put into our mouths?

    I'll be perfectly honest:  I've always longed to eat one of those ginormous. luscious-looking deep-fried funnel cakes:

     Specifically,  this cherry one:

    But, as I've managed to do for the previous 36 years, I once again resisted, though  one of these years I'm bound to crave.
    But not this year.  
    While Theresa and Phill went off in their own direction Tom and I headed for one of the grilled turkey-leg, rib, and corn pavillions:

      Fair food is expensive.  I figure they must charge by the calorie.
      Anyway, I had a $6 pulled pork sandwich in a hamburger bun, a $3 ear of grilled corn and a $4 soda.

    Tom got the $11 rib dinner, which included on the side miniscule cups of potato salad and coleslaw.  He also got the $4 soda.

    So that was $28 for lunch. 
    However Tom's ribs were really tasty,

​...as was my corn, and well it should have been since I saw the server dip my ear into a stainless steel bowl of  melted butter  before he put it on my plate.

      Didn't stop me.

       The mission of lunch accomplished,  we set out to do what there is to do at the fair besides eat.

    To be continued....