Indiana State Fair

Oh hey there!

I hope y'all had a great weekend!  I spent it with friends and cleaning my apartment.  Cleaning is not so fun, so instead of focusing on that, let's talk about my two visits to the Indiana State Fair last week!  I won't apologize for all the carbs in this post, but I will at least warn you.  Spoiler alert:  This posts contains lots of carbs.

First, since my brother was in town and it was Evan's last weekend in Indianapolis, we went to the state fair.  Nothing says celebration like deep fried food!

We started with an Elephant Ear.  If you aren't familiar, don't be ashamed; I had no idea what they were until I moved here.  Anyway, they are basically a large piece of fried dough with cinnamon and sugar all over it.

Elephant Ear

I like them, but I prefer the doughiness of funnel cakes.  Elephant ears have some crunchy spots that aren't as good, at least to me.

Next, we moved on to the Indiana Pork tent.  We had pork burgers, BBQ pork, and a pork chop.  YUM!

The other white meat.

Pearce enjoyed his first Pork Burger.  It's a thing here.  If you want to read more about a lovely hot dog festival and my first pork burger, please visit my blog here.  So, having had some food and feeling at least partially satiated, we moved on to some actual fair displays.  

Thank goodness I found this.

Peppers!

Zinas!

After a short storm passed through, we began the great search for the Fried Girl Scout Cookies.  When I say great search, I mean we wandered around the fair for like an hour trying to find this delicacy.  We got sidetracked by the kids rodeo events.  And literally asked 10 people, who were minding their own business, where to find these things.  We probably looked like deranged people looking for a sugar fix.  Finally, on the way out, we found the information booth and asked.  Apparently, they were hiding them in the Midway.  Weird.  Good news is that we finally found them and they were worth the wait.  Well, Allison didn't think so because she doesn't like coconut.  (How are we friends?)

Deep fried Samoas.  Or Carmel Delights, depending on where you are from.

So after Evan and Pearce left to go back to the land of Oz, my friends and I decided to partake in the $2 fair night.  Sadly for you, I was too consumed by my food to take photos.  What was the best thing I had Tuesday?  Deep Fried Cookie Dough.  Yes, I'm sorry, I put it out there.  If you ever come across it, please do you yourself a favor and try it.  It tastes like cookie dough, but is warm like a freshly baked cookie.  There were some other highlights, but I want to leave you with that.  You're welcome.

Sassily yours,

Aubs