Despite my 19 years in Minnesota, I've only been to the State Fair twice. I'm just not a fan. Don't get me wrong, the Minnesota State Fair has much to offer if you are into that kind of thing. It's just not my thing. The only thing that truly interest me is the Spam booth. My fair loving friend Cami texted me this photo while she was there. She knows that like a good Hawaiian, I love my Spam.
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| The Spam booth at the fair |
My friend James says "It's full of dirty people." For the record it's not full of dirty people. More accurately only about 1/4 of the people there are truly dirty, and when he says dirty he doesn't mean in a sexual way, but actually having dirt on themselves. Though now that I think about it, 1/4 of the people at the fair are probably sexual deviants, so both definitions of dirty would apply.
Some of my best friends are fair fanatics! They spend the 12 or so days that the fair is happening, trying to peer pressure me into going. They say things like "You haven't tried it with me. You just need the right person to show you how it's done." All of them treating me like I'm a lesbian who only needs the right man to show her what she's missing.
The other day I found myself starting to entertain the idea that maybe my fanatic fair friends are right, and I should go to the fair this year. Luckily James took me to lunch to celebrate my coming birthday, and talked me off the ledge.
We sat in a not crowded, air conditioned Kona Grill, enjoying sea bass and filet mignon, while James reminded me that a State Fair goer just isn't who I am.
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| Delicious birthday lunch |
2 comments:
I am a person in my "normal" life who works out 3-4 times per week. I don't eat fast food, junk food or dessert. I don't drink soda. I don't like crowds or dirt. BUT, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE the state fair. I can't get enough and would go every day of the 12 days if possible. Crazy I know, but it IS the Great Minnesota Get Together.
I don't get the appeal, either. There is decent food and reasonably priced food at the fair, but if you're there for overpriced, deep-fried garbage then pry open the wallet.
People would turn their noses up at many of the "fair foods" at other times of the year if it were offered locally, but somehow during the sacred state fair it's special and worth $6.
Decent entertainment can be found, but is it worth the giant cluster**** that is the state fair in order to see it. Hardly.
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