Rick suggested I put out a call for people's favorite fair foods. Fair season is coming right up. Actually, it's already started.
NH Fair Schedule
(Not Set In Stone But This Is Generally How It Goes)
Third Week of July: North Haverill Fair and Stratham Fair
Last Week of July: Cheshire Fair
Third Weekend of August: Cornish Fair
Last Weekend of August: Lancaster Fair and Hopkinton Fair
Third Week of September: Rochester Fair
Last Weekend of September: Deerfield Fair
Second Weekend of October: Sandwich Fair
Most years we go to the Deerfield Fair because we're only 15 minutes away. We usually go on Friday night, because that's the Miss Deerfield Fair pageant. Sometimes it's chilly and those poor girls in swimsuits, their goose bumps are big as grapes. Yet they strut on, their smiles frozen in place. And dance and sing or play piano; they recite poems, twirl batons, sometimes do exercise routines -- whatever their talent is. The Miss Deerfield Fair pageant on a cold September night could be considered an extreme sport. Those cool evenings my favorite fair food is hot cider. If I'm feeling really self-indulgent, I go for the baked potato, loaded! My husband likes anything fried. My daughter goes for the candy apples and cotton candy. What's your fair of choice? What's your favorite thing to do or eat at the fair? None of my business. Just wondering. And so was Rick.
Three girls enjoying the sweet nothing that is cotton candy
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