The Topsfield Fair

[nonelvis]

We spent a long day at the Topsfield Fair today, looking at prizewinning animals and vegetables, wandering through the carnival midway, and eating things that were, on the whole, not terribly good for us. (Lunch today: hand-cut french fries, a soft-serve twist cone, and fried Oreos. columbina had corn dogs.) I was actually a little disappointed by the lack of inappropriately fried food -- I was really hoping for some of that deep-fried macaroni and cheese on a stick they serve at the Minnesota State Fair -- but I guess that delicacy hasn't made it this far east yet.



I took a ton of photos, some of which I'm very happy with, many of which I wish I'd had more time to compose properly, but composition isn't easy when you're a) a rank amateur, like me, and b) there are tons of people milling around. Here's the complete Flickr photoset, if you want to see all of today's shots; these are just some highlights.

Pumpkins and pickles for sale in the fruit and veg exhibit.


Theoretically, this is a rabbit. It may actually be a tribble. I'm not sure.


There was a gigantic sand sculpture being built (theme: "Piglets of the Cowibbean"). I did not realize that bondage was an appropriate topic for a family-oriented fair.


I am not sure how heavily sedated I would have to be to get on this ride. In fact, it's possible I might have to be legally dead.


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Comments

[platypus]

Tribble!

Deep-fried macaroni and cheese? On a stick? But how do you even... *flail*

[nonelvis]

I DON'T KNOW BUT I MUST HAVE IT.

[platypus]

I imagine something like a very long toothpick, skewering individual elbow noodles.

[haineux.livejournal.com]

Step 1 is to freeze a cylinder of mac and cheese on a stick, using something like a popsicle mold

Step 2 is to dip it in thick cornmeal batter, and immediately fry it in very hot grease

Step 3 is to eat some drano to get rid of the utterly huge amounts of saturated fat that are now in your blood stream.

[nonelvis]

I figured it had to be something like that, up to and including Step 3. But I figure if I eat like this one day a year, and it takes a day off my life, well, at least I had that one really happy day full of fried food.