Everyone Loves A Sideshow!

[Can I Help Your A$$?]

LADIES AND GENTLEMEN STEP RIGHT UP! BEYOND THESE CURTAINS ARE WONDERS TO BEHOLD!

SEE the smart boy who can't keep a job!

SEE the cute girl who can't get a date!

I love the sideshows too! Amazing they were able to get tubetop girl. I hear she doesn't come cheap!

[Bradester]

A thick slab of win with a side of awesomesauce, washed down with a tall, cool glass of pwnage.

You're a great storyteller!

[magician5]

Sideshow lovers invited...

As producer of the carnival/sideshow/burlesque podcast BALLYCAST, I'd like to invite you all to listen HERE

I've got some friends you might like to meet:

SIDESHOW WORLD

Awesome photographer's blog of carnival behind-the-scenes photos at CLIFFHANGER

George the Giant HIS SITE IS HERE

The 999 Eyes Freakshow (run by real genetic anomalies) HERE

There are many more out there, and great folks like you will never be mistaken for "marks"! Enjoy!

[Cookiesaur]

AWESOME. Why do I never get to meet the cool people?

Thanks for those links, my husband will get a kick out of them!

[Moggie]

And if you can't make it up to Stampede, come on over to the Texas State Fair. We've figured out how to deep fry coke and cappuccino as well as oreos, twinkies, and snickers bars.
Just watching the things people will eat is a show in and of itself.

[fireheart]

Epic WIN!!!!!

[Cookiesaur]

And if you can't make it up to Stampede, come on over to the Texas State Fair. We've figured out how to deep fry coke and cappuccino as well as oreos, twinkies, and snickers bars.
Just watching the things people will eat is a show in and of itself.

Back in Canada, carnival food consisted of poorly made corn dogs, old candy apples, and cotton candy. I am continually flabbergasted at the things for sale down here at fairs, as much as I am bewildered and impressed at the notion of deep-fried coca cola. INGENUITY TRIUMPHS AGAIN. Oddly enough, I think what I find the strangest is the notion of turkey legs as a readily available midway snack. I know when I come off of the tilt-a-whirl the last thing I want is a piece of meat as big as my forearm.

There was a stand selling chocolate-dipped bacon. I was too afraid, but when we go back to watch the state roller derby championships tomorrow, I may bully my husband into trying it. "If you loved me you'd enter into potential severe gastrointestinal distress for me!"

Is deep-fried coke any good?

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

I haven't tried the stuff on a stick at the Wisconsin State Fair.

When I go there, I have to have a cream puff. Have to. I believe this is in the Constitution.

Also, an ear of corn from the New Berlin Lions Club booth. And at least one beer. If I don't have a pleasurable buzz going and corn mush between every tooth, I haven't truly visited the state fair.

This reminds me of a (sorta) funny story--one year me and my friends were perusing the schedule of events the day we were at the state fair, and one of the stages advertised "The Tom Green Show" at 2 pm or some such time.

This was when the only Tom Green show I knew of was on MTV. I watched it religiously. I was young and stupid then. Now I'm just stupid.

Anyhow, we went to the stage for the Tom Green show and were treated to--an Elvis impersonator. It turns out the local Elvis impersonator in Milwaukee is also named Tom Green.

[CaroPhoenix]

I love going to the Maryland Fenn Faire. It has steak on a stake, cheesecake on a stick, and the huge turkey legs! They also have very large pickle. ().

I want chocolate dipped bacon & deep fried coke! Mr. Rum says "no". He's no fun.

[Kogarashi]

Whenever I go to the county fair in my hometown, I just have to find the booth that's selling the batter-fried veggies. Nothing's quite as tasty (to me) as biting into deep-fried, batter-coated mushrooms and zucchini. Yum.

Sadly, that fair's not big enough to have any of the other fun novelty food. I'm seriously half-tempted to try one of those deep-fried candy bars. Or fried ice cream.

[Becks]

When I go there, I have to have a cream puff. Have to. I believe this is in the Constitution.

Also, an ear of corn from the New Berlin Lions Club booth.

You don't get your flavored milk for a quarter??

[Dreamstalker]

I love fried ice cream.

Chocolate-dipped bacon?! Yikes. Although I have had the Vosges "bacon bar" which isn't bad (milk chocolate with smoked bacon and hickory salt), so am wondering if it's a (very) rough approximation of that.

Deep-fried cappuccino?! I won't even ask.

My mom says state fairs are mindless wastes of time and money (why does every single activity have to have a purpose?) and my dad and I somehow always had something else conflicting with the NM State Fair

[Irving Patrick Freleigh]

You don't get your flavored milk for a quarter??

Nope, Something about drinking milk in muggy, 90-degree weather is off-putting to me.

[Bella_Vixen]

Irv, Becks and I might have to hitchhike along with you this year. I'll pay for parking.

[Becks]

Nope, Something about drinking milk in muggy, 90-degree weather is off-putting to me.

Wuss.

Irv, Becks and I might have to hitchhike along with you this year. I'll pay for parking.

I'll buy the first round of corn.