Another year, another trip to the Kentucky State Fair.
We went through the “Pride of the Counties”, where almost every county in Kentucky has a tourism booth set up. We discovered that Smuckers Uncrustables are manufactured in Kentucky.
Best corn dog ever
Then we got behind a group of rabbit raisers (rabbit judging was tomorrow) who apparently had never ordered food before, or didn’t know what a corn dog was, or something. After a lengthy delay, one of the cooks in the trailer called us over to the side and took our order. He couldn’t understand what was so complicated about ordering corn dogs, either. But the corn dog was delicious; you can’t get a better corn dog anywhere than the Kentucky Corn Producers trailer (these are freshly hand-dipped corn dogs, not the frozen Cisco corn dogs that they sell on the midway).
Tobacco
Now refreshed, we returned to the displays of the State Fair. We saw hundreds and hundreds of rabbits. We watched goat judging. Although tobacco is not the crop in Kentucky that it was a generation ago, we saw (and smelled) the crop competing for ribbons.
Ribbon winning display
We saw beautiful displays of produce, like this basket of peppers.
Cow milking apparatus
We saw dairy cows and where they milk them.
Me and the giant colon
Here I am by the giant colon.