COUNTY FAIR TIME BOYS! MORE PHOTO'S

[sixshot]

Its that time of year, all around the country the little....& big fairs are setting up shop. I've always enjoyed them, walking through the barns, looking at horses, pigs, cows, etc, but my real passion is the food booths!
Always lots of yummy goodies around & a couple of my long time specialities are Navajo Tacos or Teton Fries, yuummmmieee!
Jeff Hoover (Tank) said that was one of the things he wanted to try the first time he called me 2 years ago. Tank can eat more than Callshot.
This was my Navajo Taco, first you start out with a fresh scone, then comes the lettuce,taco meat & beans, its smothered in cheese, onions, tomatoes, sour cream & salsa. These little beauties will bring tears to the eyes of a serious eater!


Callshot is always trying to out do (eat) me & sometimes he gets it done.
Here's his order!


Next up was an Xlarge order of Teton Fries, these little gems are smothered in melted cheese, bacon bits, sour cream & topped off with green onions.




I tell ya, its amazing how this old country boy can put on the feed bag, he's really a machine.


After a couple of sodas for a belly wash we wandered up & down the runway, it was wet, been raining for 2 days & kind of sloppy. I lost track of Callshot for a while & they I spied him laying behind one of the big tents, he was balanced on his belly like an elephant seal in bibs! His head must have been 18" off the ground.
We're headed back for pie shortly, can't decide if I want, blueberry, huckleberry, fresh peach of boysenberry, whatever it is it will have a big goober of ice cream on top. 4 more days to go, still got the pig wrestling coming up. More photo's to come.

Fred, I can't write & Callshot can't read so a book is doomed! Here's more photo's from last nights pig wrestling. One of my grandson's team "Bacon & Legs" took second, split $170. They got beat by the "Swine Flu Team".
One of my daughter in laws (40 years old) "pigs in a blanket" finished 3rd. The winning ladies team "pigs vs pigs" wore cop uniforms, they also won it last year, they beat out the "husky hogs", I thought it should have been "musky hogs"
This is the arena, its made up of Bentinite, might be spelled right, its powdered clay, mixed with water, this stuff is messy!


This is some of the small pigs for the little kids.


There were 41 teams entered.


Here's one of the teams trying to catch their hog. Some of these farm girls are big heifers, one girl, about 15 years old was muscled up like Fermin, no neck & a rear bumper that matched a Peterbilt. She grabbed that hog around the middle & walked right out to the barrel in the middle of the muck & fell flat on her backside just before she stuffed him in the barrel, impressive!


Another team, trying to pick up a slippery hog, the handlers mud them up good before they bring them into the arena.


Here's my daughter in laws team, this was in the heavyweight division........hogs not women! Click on the last 5 photo's for video!!




Grandson Ridge's team, they took second.




This is the winning ladies team, for the second year in a row, they won $640 & 4 trophies. Megan, the team leader is one fine looking lady, she had 2 sisters & one sister in law in her group, all fine looking "cops" :shock:


I finished the night off with a scrawny pulled pork sammmich!!



Dick

Dick

[Mark Terry]

You guys are having WAY too much fun!

[spillway]

How much does a Navajo Taco weigh? I need it to shop for the cheapest over night shipping.

[brionic]

Dick, we took the boys to our Johnson County fair last week. We wanted to catch the pig calling and ugly cake contests. The trouble was that the heat index was above 115* that day, so unfortunately we enjoyed few of the eats, and none of the ugly cakes came close to rivaling the sweaty, unruly mop of hair on top of my head.

One type of fair fare that I discovered a few years ago is the "Walking Taco", similar to your Navajo Taco, all inside a slit open bag of Dorritos instead of resting on a doughy shell, and rather than shredded cheese, it features a few squirts of melted nacho sauce. Equally delicious and greasy, and not nearly as revolting to me as the ubiquitous funnel cake.

The boys enjoyed the pigs and cows, although the animals weren't enjoying the heat.



We scarfed down some local ice cream, which melted before we could finish eating it, and then some shaved ice "Tiger's Blood", which is a raspberry and coconut blend, foolishly offered in a bottomless cup. You know it's brutally hot when the boys aren't smiling or making ice cream faces.



Here are Sumner and Dashiell accosting Miss Johnson County. Sumner didn't want to let go of her.



Here is what 75* at 99% humidity looks like, at 6:30 AM. Imagine this, but 25* hotter, with flies.


We're going to hit the state fair in a couple weeks. I understand there are over 50 kinds of "food on a stick" offered, but I want some pie(s).

[doghawg]

Dang it Sixshot.....My cardiologist is already a wealthy man. As usual...an entertaining post with excellent pics.

Brionic......Sure can't blame the lad for not wanting to release Miss Johnson County!

[sixshot]

These scones are actually indian fry bread & go by different names, Navajo tacos, indian tacos, all pretty much the same & all very good.

Dick

[kaytod]

Naan bread?

If so it's pretty good as a desert also. I cannot remember the name of the seeds they put on it, but combined with mango chutney... pretty good.

Just remembered, black nigella seed.

[brionic]

The seeds commonly used on naan are sesame, anise, and cumin. The "desert" seeds are anise, which has a licorice flavor. Delish!

Sadly, no Indian food at our county fair.

[Lil Dudey]

Way to much fun but why not life is too short. Cool Post!

[sixshot]

added more photo's, pig wrestling!!

Dick

[Lil Dudey]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

[bigbore442001]

If I were younger I wouldn't want to let go of Miss Johnson County as well.

Country fairs can be a great deal of fun to attend. Some fairs seemed to have become less country in some areas.

[whitworth]

Dick, do you post photos of food to torture us?? ;D

[Frank V]

Looks like a fun time, thanks for sharing with us.
Frank