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.
For example, they often come out with a new ice cream flavor; sweet corn was a hit about 10 years ago and is now available in some ice-cream shops. This year's was beer-flavored soft serve -- not sure that did as well.
The writer mentioned the "all the milk you can drink" booth now charges $3 -- I remember when it was all the milk you could drink for 25 cents (conveniently located near Sweet Martha's Cookies). A simple turkey sandwich provided by a turkey farmers association is apparently extremely delicious, though I've never tried it.
I used to have to write a cover feature every year for our paper's State Fair visitor's guide -- and the catch was, it had to be something I could write before the fair had actually opened. So one year it was most popular fair items (the turkey sandwich was one of them).Another year I wrote a history of pronto pups when they opened a big pronto-pup factory with windows all around it so you can watch them get made.
According to Google's AI, the Minnesota State Fair offers nearly 300 different food concessions providing over 1,600 menu items (some may be duplicates).
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