East Texas State Fair

East Texas State Fair
http://www.etstatefair.com/

Took the wife, kids and friends out to the East Texas State Fair. I was very impressed with the size and quality of the fair. It was six bucks an adult to get in. When we first walked in, we walked through about a quarter mile of food stands. It was an interesting mix of professionals from local restaurants, local societies with food booths, church food booths and I'm guessing semi-professional "state fair" booths. There was everything from fried pies, regular pies, sausage on a stick, chicken on a steak, pizza on a stick, hamburger on a stick, Irish nachos, gator tators, regular burgers, fries, pies, funnel cakes, regular cakes, etc. The food scene was definitely the best thing about the state fair. The kiddos enjoyed the pig races complete with the swimming pig exhibition, as well as the petting zoo. There were varied assortments of carnival rides, a place inside with exhibit booths and some sort of livestock thing going on constantly (I'm a city boy, don't know anything about animicules).

I got to sample a fried meat pie which turned out to be a spicy creation very much like an empanada. I also went went to old stand by sausage on a stick which is always delicious. My wife had some fried pickles (way too salty for my tastes) and my large Irish friend went for the Irish nachos, which was basically slices of deep fried potatoes with sour cream, chili, cheese and chives served at a liquid-hot magma roof of mouth destroying temperature.