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In the New Yorker...
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 15, 2025, 04:46:50 pm ---I of course went immediately to the Minnesota State Fair foods article in the most recent issue. It was only OK -- seems like a lot more could have been said about the various foods available, their history or popularity or strangeness or whatever -- and a lot less said about the woman behind Sweet Martha's Cookies, which are very popular so of course did deserve a mention but not much more than that.
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I read that article today. I enjoyed it, but it left me with a question: Can you get refills of a bucket? If those buckets are plastic, they're not particularly environmentally friendly--and how many get sold at the fair? (That illustration on the first page doesn't seem to match the description of the buckets in the text, which says they have red plastic handles.)
But the really important questions are if the have deep-fried pickles and deep-fried butter? ;D
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 16, 2025, 04:40:41 pm ---What a waste of time and ink that article was! There was nothing to tell me how the MN state fair is different than any other state fair, foodwise. Even the author admitted that the chocolate chip cookies were unremarkable, the only thing noteworthy about them was the way they were packaged so that they overflowed their bucket. If it were me covering Minnesota food, I would have hunted down Sean Sherman and Winona LaDuke to see what unique indigenous foods they had come up with.
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Yeah, indigenous foods at the MN State Fair could be interesting.
Supposedly the MN SF is one of the best in the country -- competing only with Texas, and some say better.
serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Jeff Wrangler on September 16, 2025, 12:31:18 pm ---I went directly to Patricia Marx's article. She's a pretty good read.
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I usually agree, but I didn't like this one. I couldn't tell when she was joking and when she was being factual. Maybe that's the point, since the article is about AI? I may give it another shot.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on September 17, 2025, 04:37:00 pm ---I usually agree, but I didn't like this one. I couldn't tell when she was joking and when she was being factual. Maybe that's the point, since the article is about AI? I may give it another shot.
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Yeah, it was not up to her usual work.
Jeff Wrangler:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on September 16, 2025, 04:40:41 pm ---What a waste of time and ink that article was! There was nothing to tell me how the MN state fair is different than any other state fair, foodwise. Even the author admitted that the chocolate chip cookies were unremarkable, the only thing noteworthy about them was the way they were packaged so that they overflowed their bucket. If it were me covering Minnesota food, I would have hunted down Sean Sherman and Winona LaDuke to see what unique indigenous foods they had come up with.
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But isn't this criticizing an author for not writing what you think they should have written?
I don't think her point was to tell how the MN SF differed food-wise from other fairs.
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