Fair Food

When I mentioned to pal Sari that the Sonoma County fair was on in Santa Rosa, she immediately abandoned our earlier plans in favor of the fair. Turns out Sari loves county fairs. Since it was her birthday celebration, we happily went along for the ride.

We had a splendid time enjoying the goat judging, seeing baby pigs and chickens, photographing polished cows as they were paraded around the ring, admiring gigantic work horses and watching splash dogs and performing house cats. The flower pavilion was an amazing burst of color and the Elvis impersonator was convincingly fat and glittery, thank you vera, vera much.

Fair food is not good for you. Most of it is fried, or sweetened to the max. So what? It's fun and we enjoyed the sin food vera, vera much. For example, the chocolate-covered bacon, which Chilebrown had alerted us to. I have to say, I'd probably not eat it again but, what the heck, it was an experience. Chewy bacon slathered with dark chocolate - what's not to like?

On the ever-so-slightly more healthy side, we enjoyed some fresh lemonade from a stand shaped like a giant lemon with three giggly high school girls squeezing fresh fruit for us, and these pulled pork sliders from Johnny Garlic's, a Santa Rosa institution that had a stand at the fair. Guy Fieri's flamboyant self was not there but his image certainly was.

The weather was perfect, the crowd was cheerful and we were birthday mode. A perfect day at the fair.