Photos: Clay, Minus the -mation
Posted on 26 April 2008 under Fairs, Photos, Special Events | No Comments
Yesterday evening I attended the Tecumseh High School Spring Art Show. Some of the clay sculpture entries were of food, some of which included commercial wrappers from what they were based on. These are a few of my favorites.
Michigan State Fair Food Recommendations
Posted on 30 August 2007 under Fairs, Michigan Cuisine | No Comments
If you’re headed to the lower peninsula Michigan State Fair this week, be sure to check out this morning’s recommendations for where to buy the best of each type of fair food from the Detroit Free Press.
Country Pride Peach Cobbler … on a Stick???
Posted on 28 August 2007 under Fairs, Food In The News | 2 Comments
CBSNews.com reported yesterday on this year’s competition among Texas State Fair concessionaires. From the article:
There are Deep Fried Lattes for a morning jump-start, plus fried chili pie, fried guacamole, and a range of crispy desserts including Fried Cookie Dough … Concessionaire Allan Weiss is offering up Zesty Fried Guacamole Bites, a variation on the Fried Avocados he created last year. The bites are a scoop of guacamole, breaded, fried and served with ranch dressings or salsa.
An Amorous Goat, Never-Ending Rabbits, and Bri Gets Dunked!
Posted on 4 August 2007 under Fairs, Special Events | No Comments
Awww, he loved me! From what I was told, this rather amorous goat at the fair has pushingly-snuggled with complete strangers ever since he was a baby 4 years ago. Now, at 200 pounds, he doesn’t know any better!
On the final day of the Monroe County Fair, another goat had discovered the straw was fresher on the other side of the cage wall:
It takes a minute, but in this next pic, you can tell where one rabbit ends and the other begins:
While visiting with Knoah’s mom and dad, Briahna volunteered to be in the dunk tank in the Arthur Lesow Community Center dunk tank. Here, Knoah’s dad, Will Sweat (a fixture around the MonroeTalks.com forums) gives Bri instructions on being a proper dunk tank rider:
A little redhead took proper aim at my blonde daughter … and …
… down she went!
Bri said it wasn’t cold, put that first high-speed drop took her by complete surprise!
We hope to see you at next-year’s fair!
More Real Reasons for The Fair: Junior Livestock Auction
Posted on 4 August 2007 under Fairs, Special Events | No Comments
From today’s Monroe News, “Meijer pays $11 a pound for grand champion hog“:
The 270-pound grand champion 4-H hog raised by Jacob Beck of Ottawa Lake was snatched up by Meijer Inc. for $11 a pound during the Junior Livestock Auction Friday night … The sale earned Jacob, 15, a profit of $2,970. He already is thinking about getting his first car, but will have to save some of the money for college, said his mom.
The grand champion lamb actually went for, oh, just a bit more … from “Bank, grocer join forces to buy grand champion lamb for $35 a pound“:
… (T)wo perennial buyers joined together to buy the grand champion lamb raised by Lauren Wells of Monroe for a whopping $35 a pound … Karen Bellino bid for (Danny’s Fine Foods) and Tom Assenmacher did the same for (Monroe Bank & Trust) … Lauren … held her prized 140-pound lamb during the bidding. She went home with $4,900. The sale topped the sale of the 2006 champion lamb raised by Hannah Biniecki of Maybee that went for $30 a pound to Kroger Co.
But unfortunately, in a related article today, the kind of apathy I wrote about in a post on August 2nd reared its ugly head. From “Champion steer nets $5 a pound“:
Chuck Smith was as stunned as almost everyone else at the Monroe County Fair livestock auction Friday night … Mr. Smith had just bought the 4-H grand champion steer for $5 a pound. But he was the only bidder on the 1,275-pound dark steer in the first sale of the long night … “I figured I’d get it started and it would go higher,” the owner of C.M. Smith Sand & Stone explained afterward. “But it didn’t move.” … Usually for a grand champion, auctioneer Chuck Chestnut has to wave his hands several times and work his way through several bidders before announcing the final sale. But not this time … “You got me speechless,” Mr. Chestnut said afterward.
A 1,275-pound grand champion steer? That’s a whole lot of work and feed for only $5 a pound …
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