Friday, February 09, 2007

"Look Mommy! What's an 'oddity'?"

Took the boys to the Florida State Fair today.

You heard me.

Old CW: I don't consort with the corn-dog crowd. New CW: My children said, "Please."

I'm uncomfortable with several aspects of the fair experience.

- Too many missionaries. There are several characters who mean well, trying to offer you the gift of eternal life and all, who...how to put this...should have cooked just a little while longer. They're handing out pamphlets that show the results of a sinful life (eternal hellfire) while sucking on chili dogs and flirting with the teenager manning the John Casablancas Modeling tent.

- Watched a cow give birth. Live. With these people.



'Nuff said.

- Wandered into a barn that housed about a hundred pigs. Smelled *awful*. Walked through quickly (breathethroughyourmouthbreathethroughyourmouth) and came out the other side to a consortium of pork product manufacturers. They had pork burgers, chops, ribs, sausage and plenty of bacon to sample. Something not quite right about that. Not quite right at all.

- Fair food. First of all, if you are so heavy you need one of those scooters to get around and haven't been able to remove rings from your fingers since 1948, perhaps a turkey leg with a side of cheese on a stick topped off with deep fried Oreos and washed down with a 40-oz. cup of beer is not the best idea in the world.

- And what, in the name of all that is good and holy, what in the f*ck is this about?

-Then there is this. My angels looking out over Tampa during their very first ferris wheel ride.



Worth every uncomfortable moment. For sure.

3 Comments:

At 2/10/2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

I heard about Fried Coke during last year's fair season. Sounded disgusting, and I like Coke. I'm guessing that Pepsi is the "Official Soda" of the FS Fair, thus "Fried Pepsi" instead. Which makes it just that much more nasty.

Of course, the proper (if you want to call it that) way to serve fried soda is in a cup rather than one of those little trays depicted.

 
At 2/10/2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Fried SODA!? What's next, fried...I don't know, oranges? Hmmmm....

 
At 2/11/2007, Anonymous Anonymous said...

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