I like the technique. Folks at State Fairs get it in. Literally.
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On a post-college road trip with an old boyfriend several years ago, I once visited the Minnesota State Fair.
I succinctly remember us taking pix of the stands for cream cheese won tons, the deep fried candy bars (which made their debut that summer and were the hottest food item there), and the grease stains on the sidewalk surrounding the french fry stand, which sold movie popcorn-size buckets of fries. I also remember how they thoughtfully placed the bucket-of-choco chip cookies-stand right next to the tanker truck of milk, where you a 25 cent cup bought you all-you-can-drink privileges. The foul stench of hundreds of used milk cups rotting in huge garbage cans in the 105 degree heat made me marvel at how some folks could manage to still enjoy their snacks. Dozens of huge midwesterns leaned up against the shade of the milk tanker to dunk their cookies, some with t-shirt stains of spilled milk growing larger with each subsequent dunk.
The best part though? The refrigerated busts of the state fair princesses made out of butter. The winner was deemed Princess Kay of the Milky Way. Here’s a pic of one I grabbed from someone else’s profile on Flickr: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2004/2811339312_1e83aa0b5c.jpg
