In article , Koko wrote:

I didn't have breakfast in order to have room for fair food. When we
first arrived we walked right past the turkey leg stand, there he was,
enticing me with his legs.
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How could I pass this up?
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It was very tasty, I passed on the BBQ sauce he offered. Parts of one
side of the leg were a little dry but the majority of the leg was
tender and juicy.
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I get full too easily. :-)
That looks wonderful and I'd probably have asked for a bag to wrap up a
couple to take home for later.


They also offered grilled corn. I usually grill corn myself so I
passed, but it sure looked good.
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Now this is how I like it. I slather it with mayonnaise and sprinkle
with Parmesan cheese or rub with a lime and sprinkle with Tapatio hot
sauce.
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Ooh, I prefer it with no black kernels and generally just eat it "as is".
Maybe some butter depending on my mood.

Great pics so far by the way! :-)


We walked around for a while and talked with the animals.
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Llamas are so damned cute. :-)


It was about time to sit down and have a cool one. We found a nice
little beer garden and had a couple of beers. We struck up a
conversation with two nice ladies at the table next to us; they were
eating the best looking artichoke sandwiches.
Come to find out one of the ladies makes mole from scratch also, she
uses Diana Kennedy's recipe, so needless to say our conversation
centered on food, restaurants and recipes.
One of the ladies has a friend that owns the restaurant Bambu Bistro
in Hillcrest so we have to try it out.
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That looks good!


We walked around and looked at the exhibits but spent most of our time
in the commercial buildings.
Well, walking around made us hungry again so we found another beer
garden and snacked on some fried chicken. It was really good and not
greasy, nice crunchy fried skin. I don't usually eat the skin but
heck, it's the fair.
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Best part of the chicken IS the skin imho! G


After some more walking around it was time for a snack. One thing I
wanted to be sure and eat was a deep fried snickers bar.
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Now, the inside is disgusting looking but the batter was great. Nice
and fluffy not too thick.
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What? No deep fried Twinkies? :-)


On our way out we had to have just a little more fried food.;-) This
guy is like the local dealer, fried everything.
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Damn. And I thought _I_ was bad deep frying Salmon!


My parting shot was deep fried coca-cola and deep fried asparagus.
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It's batter made with coca-cola or maybe the cola syrup is used
because it sure is coca-cola tasting and very crunchy
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The asparagus was really good if you started from the smaller end as
it got tougher and stringy toward the end.
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He probably did not snap them.


I still hadn't eaten rattlesnake bites, deep fried twinkies, or the
chicken sandwich on a Krispy Kreme jelly doughnut. Looks like we have
to go again next year, because this is how I felt as we left the fair
grounds, I couldn't have eaten another bite. See ya at the fair next
year.


grins Cute!
I've had deep fried rattlesnake at a rattlesnake roundup.
It's ok, but a bit fishy tasting.


If you are interested in a review of the Krispy Kreme and rattlesnake
and other fair food I didn't eat go to fellow food blogger
http://mmm-yoso.typepad.com/mmmyoso/...n_diego_c.html

It's in three parts so be sure and read them all.
They have pictures of a lot of the food entries, jams jellies etc...

Koko

Fun post, thanks!!!
I know how much work these kinds of posts can be.
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