Minnesota State Fair

Saturday was Boston Scientific Day at the fair. We got our 3 dollar discount tickets and yellow Boston Sci T-shirt so that hopefully a wandering company person would give us a prize. Neither of us won, surely because there were seemingly thousands of yellow Boston t-shirts. They were everywhere you could look. Linda and I both had people as us about whats up with all the yellow t-shirts. Some even wanted to know where we got them! This year I made sure to photograph everything we ate.

Ironically this year we really didn't eat as much as usual. The big item we were looking for was the hotdish on a stick which probably needs some explaining for some who are reading this. Hotdish on a stick is meatballs and tatertots covered in batter and deep fried. 1.) Hotdish, a uniquely midwestern term for cassaerole, often containing cream of mushroom soup. 2.) On-a-stick, many food items at the fair are served on a skewer like a corn dog for the ease of eating and walking. Now it's the theme to have every food on-a-stick. I liked it better then Linda despite the way she is chowing down in the photo.

In order here is the food we ate; Deep fried cheese curds, Sweet Marthas chocolate chip cookies and all-you-can-drink milk, a gizmo sandwhich, and finally a vanilla and strawberry shake.


















No trip to the fair would be complete without a trip to the dairy building to see the Princess Kaye of the Milky Way sculptures made from 100% butter. Each finalist in this beauty contest gets to keep her likeness in butter.








On the way out of the fair I grabbed a huge bag of kettle corn to take home. This place makes it fresh in this big kettle. I love this salty sweet treat.










And finally, after a long day of walking and eating, we felt just like this guy, the largest boar pig in Minnesota. I think he weighed around 1000 pounds.