the minnesota state fair is back! going to the fair is one of the highlights of our year (not kidding) and this year we even took a day off work for it! (you can see our day at the fair last year here!) for the past four years (i think?) tony and i have gone to the fair just the two of us, and so that is now a tradition of ours. we usually go more than once (should i be embarassed about that?) but we make sure that one of the days we go just us two! besides eating a lot, tony and i have a few other traditions at the fair. we always go on ye old mill together. ye old mill is a 100 year old ride and the oldest ‘tunnel of love’ (lots of couples on this ride!). we also always get our photo taken inside the education building. they print you a photo calendar for free and it stays on our fridge all year long. we love it. other things we like are the baby animals in the birthing center, the crazy products for sale, the dairy princesses being carved into butter sculptures, and of course the people watching. that being said, the state fair is mainly about food. every year, we try to eat a mix of both new foods and classic fair favorites. here is a complete list of what we ate on our fair date. we went back to the fair two days later and ate some more, but here is just one day of food!
- mini donuts
- poutine
- chicken in a waffle
- pronto pup
- cinnie smith cinnamon rolls
- grilled cheese bites (*new*)
- cheese curds
- corn fritters
- candied bacon blt (*new*)
- sweet martha’s cookies
see photos of all of the food below!mini donuts for breakfast! the tom thumb ones are the. best.
poutine for tony! poutine is basically fries with gravy and cheese curds on top.
this is my favorite i think! chicken in a waffle cone with gravy on top.
you have the get the pronto pup. it’s a banquet on a stick!
i look so happy here.
tony wanted to buy this pontoon so bad! they literally sell everything you can think of at the fair.
cinnie smith cinnamon rolls. these used to be one of our favorites but we think they have gone down recently. we decided we are going to pass for next year.
this is a new item we decided to try out this year. the deep fried grilled cheese bites. overall, we liked them. i thought it was very similar to eating a cheesy bread stick.
cheese curds may be my all-time favorite fair food. something funny that most people won’t admit is that this cheese comes from wisconsin. 
i love this selfie where tony is just holding the ketchup.
a classic combination.
here we are waiting to go on ye old mill. the best!
we tried the sky glider for the first time this year. tony is afraid of heights and he was a little nervous on this ride. i don’t think we will do it again!
corn fritters above and the candied bacon blt below (a new item!) i really liked the blt but it didn’t have fresh tomato, it had tomato jam. i feel like a blt needs fresh tomato.
the best way to end a day at the state fair. a giant bucket of sweet martha’s cookies!
bye state fair! until next year! 🙂
