Alright, we knew going into it that day 3 was going to be ugly. Brian and I were going to spend at least 8 hours at the Washington State Fair in Puyallup... home of the Krusty Pup, Fischer Fair scones and deep fried butter. I knew there was no way that I could find a vegetable at the fair, other than those that had been thinly cut and thickly coated with batter, and that was pretty much the case.
So how'd we do?? Not as bad as you might think, and not nearly as well as we could have. We started the day with lots and lots of fruit for breakfast. I figured that would help with digestion later in the day. When we arrived at the fair, Krusty Pup's were the order of the day. We got our meat on a stick and started wandering about the fairgrounds.
A word about Krusty Pups. Krusty Pups are the corn dog standard for the civilized world. They've been sold by the Salles family at the Puyallup for multiple decades (at least 5, I think). Never has there been or will there be a corn dog to compete with these golden orbs of crunchy goodness, especially when lovingly draped in yellow mustard. If the gods went to the fair, this would be their nectar of choice. Enough said.
The Krusty Pups lasted us for quite a while and I was feeling pretty superior about my fair discipline (I had passed when Brian got a chocolate/vanilla soft serve cone at the dairy barn)... until we found the cow chip cookie stand. As readers may remember, Cow Chip Cookies were on the must have for my list of fair food. We did not reject them as perhaps we should have; instead we each got one: me a classic cow chip cookie and Brian, a nutty cow (walnuts). The good/bad news out of this experience is that they were not as good as I remembered. I can and do make better cookies, so next time I get a hankering for one of these Seattle delicacies, I'll make some of my own, which will be much better for me anyway.
We are our cookies while watching some of the 4H dog training competition. That was my all time favorite part of the fair. These were not guide dogs in training, but were simply kids and their dogs, learning obedience training together. Brilliant! But after an hour or so of this activity, we got pretty hungry.
Here was crunch time. How to find something healthy at the fair? Well, I'm sure it could be done by some very enterprising person, but not us. We looked for non-meat items, but extremely expensive fish and chips were about all we could find. So then, we branched off to non-fried options. We finally settled on Pete's Wood-fired BBQ, another fair tradition. Mmmmmmm...BBQ! with gross curley fries (so gross, I couldn't eat them, but Brian had no problem with it).
We decided to walk around again, looking at the farm animals, so naturally, we ended up back at the dairy barn. The soft serve cone which I so proudly ignored earlier in the day, called my name so loud that the cows stopped producing milk! OK, that is a lie, but I did give in and get a chocolate/strawberry swirl cone. It was mighty tasty, especially after my supreme disappointment in finding the Purple Cow booth a thing of the past. It was mighty fine.
As I said, it was a pretty bad food day. As I also said, it was nowhere near as bad as it could have been. While we strayed quite far from our non-animal protein path, we managed to avoid most of the crazy sugary/fried indulgences and all fudge stands.
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