Kum & Go is also known to locals as “Ejaculate & Evaculate.” Ha ha ha. I love it.After ingesting a low-fat sandwich, Diet Coke, and Baked Lays for lunch, I met my healthy obligations for the day and was ready for some serious Fair eating.
Pork chop on a stick? Count me in! 
Taking Bil’s advice, I put a little bit of Cookie’s BBQ sauce on the chop, and an equal amount on my shirt. 
YUM! It was tasty on the chop. (Not sure about my shirt, though.)After the chop, we headed over to the Agricultural Building. Sister and BiL assured me that there were many samples to be had. We tried various jellies and honeys, which were delicious. I bought a Dark Sweet Cherry jam, which Sister must ship to me because I could not bring it onboard the plane thanks to the terrorists. The Ag Building also housed the butter sculptures.
Does anyone else find the butter cow slightly disturbing? I think it is the veiny udders and prominent ribs. I don’t hang out around many cows, so maybe I just don’t know what they truly look like, but this one is like some weird starving cow on the Ganges or an anorexic bovine. I just never picture cows with their ribs sticking out or bulging veins when I think about them. 
I like Superman and his butter bulge much better than the cow. (Sacrilege, I know!) Insert your own “melt in your mouth” joke here. 
I’m not sure who Mr. State Fair is, but he rounds off the troika of butter sculptures nicely. For some reason, I think he has something to do with the Riley of “The Life of Riley,” but like the anorexic cow, I could be making that up. On a final note regarding the butter sculptures, I was amused to see a book about Norma “Duffy” Lyon, the woman who has sculpted the butter statues at the Fair since 1960, was available to purchase.The butter sculptures were not the only food art on display. Oh no siree! But I can’t seem to upload more pictures to Blogger at the moment, so this will need to suffice for now. As soon as it is working again, I’ll bring you the amazing (drumroll) chocturkey! (Oooooh! Aaaaah!)
I remember when I was driving through Iowa and I came across a Kum and Go...I nearly fainted. Almost as good as the Sac n' Pac in Texas! On my drive across this country I realized that American's are so sexualy repressed that we get things like Kum and Go, etc, etc. That and a million drive in and drive out porn shops.
ReplyDeleteThe cows at the Wagner farm are bony,too. Maybe the butter udder veins are bulging because the cow is supposed to be realistic and either needed to be milked or was just milked.
ReplyDeleteI can't believe you had an opportunity to buy a six-pac of fried pork chop on a stick, but purchased only one. The TSA has yet to forbid solid pork products from planes (pork jelly is another story), so I see no reason that you could not return with at least a couple of chops.
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