2024 Ohio State Fair-The Midway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ก.ย. 2024
- Going to the fair, you'd expect there to be plenty of fair food to eat, right? At the 2024 Ohio State Fair, believe me you'll see a lot of fair food!
From the traditional hamburgers, corn dogs and fries to the untraditional (Deep-fried Oreos, Donut Burgers, Butt Fries) and literally everything in between, you'd better bring your appetite because it's all here!
Cotton candy, freeze-dried candy, Bahama Mamas, genuine Schmidt's Cream Puffs, half-pound Sirloin Burgers, chicken on a stick, stromboli, just wayy too much to list here.
Plus lemonade, soda pop, root beer and much, much more to be had, at the 2024 Ohio State Fair! Continues through Sunday August 4! It's located at the Ohio Expo and Fairgrounds on 17th Ave. here in Columbus OH!
And while you're here, be sure to enjoy the rides, performances and farm animals too!
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It is a crying shame they haven't invented SMELL-O-VISION, yet. The smells of the Ohio State Fair midway, are intoxicating. Those smells are what motivated me to recover from a serious illness I had in year 2000. I wanted to live again so I could immerse myself in those smells. It is primarily the smell of foods being cooked in oil. Fried foods, and batter-dipped foods. To take in the most delicious smells I recommend buying a ticket for a ride on THE CABLE CARS, that glide over the mid way. It is a relaxing sit-down ride over all the food vendors. There are excellent views of the whole fair grounds up there. Some years I brought along a small set of binoculars, in my backpack. Other years I took my zoom lens video cameras. Two people can sit in a single cable car, or one person can. It is great way to relax after hours of walking.
Other less known treats: GO TO THE DAIRY BARNS, Where fresh made ice cream is available. I think they keep it basic. Chocolate, vanilla and strawberry are your choices, but it is better than store bought. You can get in a small throw-away waxed cup, or in a traditional cone. ALSO LOOK FOR: In another pavilion or the same one,....ICE CREAM MADE WITH REAL HONEY. It is always vanilla, but it is better than traditional vanilla ice cream.
I always like that they sold older-fashioned treats, that were common going back to the 1920s. You can find SALT WATER TAFFY being stretched on large machines. Watching the machines do their thing, pulling the taffy, which is how it is made, it combines the flavors and aded flavorings. Saltwater taffy has fallen in popularity, because so many new confections have replaced it. They probably still have THE TOM THUMB, miniature donut machines. One gets to watch a self contained, automated, machine that produces fresh, tiny, delicious, little donuts. You get to see the batter being poured, into a metal channel filled with hot cooking oil. The batter pours out and automatically forms into the donut shape. The tiny donuts which are approximately 2 inches in diameter, begin cooking as they float down down the channel of hot oil. They bob and jiggle as they merrily move along. At the end of the channel, they flip out, and drop down into a fluffy pile of powdered sugar. They are pretty cheap, price-wise, and you get 5 to 10 of them per bag. The are best when eaten right away, while they are still hot, although they can be taken "to go", for later enjoyment at your house. I also recommend the BELGIAN WAFFLES. Here, the vendor takes a wrought iron, or aluminum form shaped like a multi-petal flower, and dips it in liquid batter. Next they set the form which has a long handle, into a roiling caldron of hot cooking oil. That immediately fries the dough, and when they are released, a delicate flower-shaped pastry is covered by hand, by the vendors with shakers filled with powered sugar. The end product is a delicate, very thin, crispy, edible flower shaped, treat. Because they are thin and delicate, I recommend they be eaten sooner, than later. They too can be taken "to-go",....but they taste best when eaten right away. By the next morning the oil in the pastry, seems to dominate their taste. Believe it or not,...there has always been a MAXWELL HOUSE COFFEE (hot) coffee vendor, in one of the larger pavilions, which are air conditioned. You get the best damned cup of hot black coffee. Better tasting, than when you make it at home, for some reason. (Fresher beans, I suppose). Sometimes it is sold on the mid-way, from a English, double decker bus, that is stationary. Hot coffee and fresh fried pastries are my favorite.
Also in the air conditioned pavilions,.....you'll find fresh made LAMB BURGERS. I always joke that the lamb comes from the losers from animal judging barns. But I do not know if that is true. Lamb burgers are way better than beef burgers,....they are leaner meats. AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST,.....If you want something common and basic,....there is usually a vendor selling fresh made, BLTs....that is Bacon, Lettuce and Tomatoes sandwiches on toasted bread. That to me is boring, and common, but they better than home made.