My State Fair feelings can best be expressed…
… in this monologue from We Have Mixed Feelings About Sven Sundgaard:
I truly believe the anchors serving for the local news networks are hard-hitting journalists, giving us the news we need. As it happens, here is the news we need for the next 10 days:
Food you can get at the state fair.
Interviews with fair people.
Interactions with rubes that don’t matter and give one word answers.
Lots of smiling and folksy banter.
More stories about the food you can get at the fair.
Behind the scenes features on how the fair works.
More stories about food, usually some sort of item on a stick.
Thank you, journalists. The fourth estate is definitely doing its service to society.
When you put it that way, the State Fair sounds like that old school McDonald’s slogan, “Food, folks and fun.” Both inspire that dirty, “I know this is really bad for me but I sort of like it anyway” feeling in me. Except that I don’t like the State Fair.
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Someone should do a poll - I wonder if the state fair is more loved by people that grew up going to the fair, because I know that T. Ruth doesn’t care much for the fair either, among others not raised in MN.
I was raised in northern MN and never visited the fair as a child. Now that I live down here (after 10 years in other states) I love the fair!
I only went to the fair once or twice growing up in Michigan, despite similar proximity to it. Guess I’m just not a state-fair-goer.
I think I’m pretty “meh” on the fair since as a kid, you only went to fairs for the rides, and I just don’t do rides anymore. That and I don’t want strangers sweating out transfats touching me…