We went to the Orange County Fair last night. It was Curtis, me and two of our good friends. I'll call them Blondie and Fun Guy. Fun Guy hadn't been to a Fair in forever. Blondie hadn't been in a while. Curtis and I go quite a bit because my family goes so often every year.
As you might be aware, the food at the Fair is, well, interesting. When you walk in all you smell is BBQ and sugar in the air. Everything you want can be found deep fried and on a stick! They have deep fried Twinkies, deep fried oreos, deep fried pepsi, and even chocolate covered bacon! It's basically a good place to go if you need to gain some weight or are wanting a heart attack. But even so, boy are the Fair's fun!
I have a theory about all the fried foods though. I think that they are way over-rated and I think they are almost never as enjoyable as you are thinking they are going to be. I'm all for splurging at festivals like this, but, I also don't like feeling sick for two days after eating all that deep fried stuff. But I digress, more on that later....
So, to start off, Blondie and I went straight for the Margarita stand. Yum. Then we all headed to see an exhibit called "Weird Al's Brain". It has all kinds of fun facts about Brains and also has a 3-D movie about brains. It's fun and educational. We all enjoyed it.
Then we set out for food. I had been hankering for the grilled corn on the cob. But right next to the corn on the cob were grilled veggie kabobs. So I got one of those instead. Mistake. It wasn't all that great and it was more expensive than the corn. Oh well. Now I know. Fun Guy headed for one of the "heart attack" stands and got a krispy creme donut fried chicken sandwich. Fried chicken breast in between a cut in half krispy creme donut. He said it wasn't that great. I could've told him that, but it's important to let people figure these things out on their own. Curtis got a corn on the cob and that made me a little jealous. He let me have a bite though. Cause he's nice like that. Blondie had a chicken kabob. She gave me a piece. It was okay, not the best chicken I ever had though. Curtis was the only one really happy with his first choice. Damn me for not listening to my instincts and getting corn! Fun Guy went off to get fried mushrooms and then came back with a ham, swiss and bacon sandwich instead! He thoroughly enjoyed that. I was kinda bummed he didn't get the mushrooms though, I would have liked to have tried them.
So then we stopped to get a few drinks then walked around. We walked a bit and looked at all the over priced, and frankly, dangerous looking rides. We laughed at the games. We took pictures with statues of giant cows and the like....Curtis and Fun Guy had some chocolate covered bacon.
They said it tasted like chocolate covered pretzels. Fun Guy decided he needed a hand dipped corn dog. So, we found him one. It was monstrous in size. He enjoyed that quite a bit.
This is me with yet wnother cow thing to take a picture with. Cows are a big part of the Fair.
Blondie decided that she would like to try the deep fried cheesecake. She bought a piece for us all to share while I was purchasing a salad. Yes, I bought a salad at the Fair. To be fair (no pun intended) it was smothered in shredded mozzarella cheese. And I got some ranch on the side. Like everything else at the Fair, it was monstrous in size. Curtis, Blondie and I all had some and still there was a lot left that we could not finish.
Then we tried some deep fried cheesecake. It was tasty but my goodness, VERY rich. So, as I mentioned, I have a theory about all the crazy deep fried Fair foods... I think that when it comes to foods that are already very sweet or rich (cheesecake, twinkies, oreos, etc...) there is a taste saturation point where you can't do more to make it taste better. So, when you batter it and deep fry it it's really just adding fat and calories for no real reason. Because, while the deep fried cheesecake was good, I really preferred un-battered cheesecakes. And things like "Giant Onion Rings" SOUND good but in reality, they rarely are. I prefer regular, normal sized onion rings thanks. Sometimes bigger isn't better. Now, I love me some fried foods. Artichokes, zucchini, mushrooms, onion rings, french fries.... however, too much of them makes me feel sick and if they are TOO greasy it's just gross to me. I tend to be a "blotter". I'm the girl dabbing her paper towel on her pizza, onion rings, etc...to mop up the grease. So, perhaps the typical Fair food is wasted on me? Oh well.
Fun Guy tried an ice cream sundae with fried oreos and fried snickers bars. Again, he said it was good, but not as awesome as he was expecting.
After that we wandered around some more. I decided I needed a hand rolled pretzel. I had no idea how big the damn thing would be! It was family sized. Curtis, Fun Guy and I all worked on it but could not finish it. Then we looked at products for sale and one guy who was selling these really neat air tight container lids told us about a great sushi place at the Fair. Yup. Sushi. At the Fair. Sounds dodgy doesn't it? But apparently this guy said it was AWESOME. We made a note of it. Curtis had his heart set on a giant smoked sausage though, so, we went in search for that first. It was about a foot and a half long! Fun Guy got an Orange Julius to drink.
We then looked at baby pigs, sheep, goats and cows. We took pictures with sunflowers and then we wandered back towards the sushi place.
Blondie got a Tuna handroll. She said it was delicious. The staff was really friendly, the 3 sushi chefs had over 60 years of experience between them and the stand they had was AWESOME. Even though I don't really love sushi I loved the atmosphere of this place and I will go back with Curtis on a future visit.
By Now Fun Guy looked like he was going to explode. He also had a weird food coma thing going on. We were seriously concerned for him, yet, he seemed to still be having a good time. So, Curtis, Blondie and I went to the Wine Tasting while Fun Guy napped a bit of his food coma off in a nearby chair. The wine was good and we got three tastes and a wine glass to take home for $7! Not bad for Fair prices!
By now we were exhausted. And stuffed. We had planned on getting funnel cake (Curtis's favorite) but we just couldn't do it. Nobody felt up for it. The Fair was winding down. Curtis and I took our obligatory Fair photo booth photos (which turned out super cute!) and Fun Guy made one last purchase of an awesome Giraffe painting for his yet to be born but already adorable daughter's nursery. He's gonna be a good dad.
Curtis and I have passes for the Fair for the entire run. So, we'll be back. We'll get some funnel cake one day, a giant cinnamon roll another time, and then maybe even the crazy good but huge caramel and chocolate covered apples! Mmmm...
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