I always say that our fair day is one of my most favorite days, and it is true! David and I went to the Louisiana State Fair this week. :) I love this tradition! We are pretty sure this is our 12th year to go. We always try to take a full day off from work for our day and we always have such a great time! I could pretty easily skip the holiday season altogether – I’m not into the holidays really; they don’t hold nearly the allure for me as our day at the fair!
This year I had three main food objectives in mind:
1. Tater Twisters with melted cheese
2. Fried cookie dough
3. Red Velvet funnel cake
I was really geared up to eat them all!! I spent a lot of time trying to decide if I’d really be able to do it – all that sugar and all the grease! I decided that I was up to the task. hehe.
Our fair day was absolutely beautiful, weather wise. You might recall that our fair day last year was a dismal mix of clouds and a relentless cold drizzle, so this year’s perfect temperatures, sunshine, and cool breeze were a perfect antithesis to what we had before.
We were completely starving when we got there, so we headed for our tater twisters first!
YUM! YUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’d like to lie and say that we didn’t finish all that. But…….. :) There is just something amazing about salty, freshly fried potato twisters dipped in melted cheese. I definitely felt myself hit a wall with my level of grease consumption! (This is the point where I started to doubt my ability to reach my other food goals for the day…hehe…………)
We got there at a great time because the first show of the day (a circus!) started at noon, and then several other shows went back-to-back from that one. We did the Circus Hollywood first, then watched a lumberjack competition (more humorous than you’d expect), a bubble show, and then the Great American Duck Race. We normally don’t time things out that well – that was nice!
After that – it was time for more food! We had walked a pretty large section of the fair by that point but I had not seen fried cookie dough. We did see a vendor that was selling (regular) cookie dough on a stick so we decided to go with that. Just as we stepped up to order, I looked across the “street” and saw the red velvet funnel cake cart!!! I had a brief moment of indecision – cookie dough, or funnel cake? The grease factor of the funnel cake just seemed a little bit too dangerous after all those potatoes, so I chose cookie dough. It was very yummy! The dough was dipped in chocolate and covered in pecans. Yummy!
(I did later pass a lady who was chowing down on a red velvet funnel cake. I asked her how it was and she said it was AMAZING.)
On our way to the zoo (and my giraffe!) we passed by the agricultural building where we met the actual Elsie the Borden cow. She was cute! They were selling glasses of Borden milk, but they weren’t giving out milk magnets this year.
She looked remarkably just like this!
And, our last stop: the state fair zoo. My giraffe was really happy to see me!
We left the fair and headed off to one of our other traditions – our after-fair meal at Olive Garden! You wouldn’t think you’d be able to actually eat after all the fair food, but somehow, being around “real” food can suddenly become very enticing! I wolfed down my salad like I hadn’t eaten anything green in weeks, hehe.
So, I might not have achieved all my food goals this year, but now I know for sure where to get the red velvet funnel cake. Next year……red velvet funnel cake!!! Next year!!!!!! I will ration my helping of potatoes (yeah right) so I can be sure to have room!!
Sluuuuurrp!!
