Review of chocolate covered bacon at the N.C. State Fair and other first day fun
17 Oct
You might have to take my reviews of the N.C. State Fair with a grain of salt because I’m such a fangirl. I spent three hours at the fair tonight and I only have two complaints: It was difficult to find the chocolate covered bacon and I didn’t win a goldfish.
Tonight my sole mission was to try chocolate covered bacon. I wandered past all the food vendors, and even asked a woman at the information booth and two girls at the Kiwanis booth. No luck. I tweeted that I was looking for it, and the ever-responsive @NCStateFair twitter handlers quickly responded that I needed to go to the Murphy booth in the commercial building. For those of you familiar with the fairgrounds, the commercial building is the one that houses all the vendors during the flea market.
I paid $5 for four pieces of the bacon. I tried my first bite on camera so you can see my legitimate reaction. I did the same thing with last year’s signature deep fried mac and cheese. So, here’s my initial, unedited reaction to the salty-sweet treat:
So, as you can see, I was pretty excited about the combination, but I definitely spoke to soon about wanting to eat it more than once during the fair. I ate a piece and a half and that’s all I could get through. It was really rich. But the semi-sweet chocolate is fantastic. It’s definitely worth the five bucks, especially if you have someone to share it with.
Other highlights from tonight:
* I won a pink elephant playing Whack-A-Mole. Most of the games are $3, but they actually range from 50 cents to $5. The best value game is probably the derby game where you roll the balls into colored holes (similar to skee ball) to make your horse move.
It’s a great value because you can practice while the announcer lures more players over.
*I got to hold a baby chick in the poultry tent. I could’ve held that chirping chick forever, but my hands were frozen and I felt guilty because I’m sure it was scared to death.
* I rode the world’s largest portable slide. At 200 feet long and 72 feet tall, the slide is worth the $4 ticket for novelty’s sake. The ride down the slide was surprisingly slow until the very last two humps, then you fly down the straightaway.
* I paid $1 to see the world’s largest alligator. He was definitely bigger than any alligator I saw when I lived on Hilton Head Island. But mostly it was pretty sad.
* I watched the fireworks. The explode EVERY NIGHT at 9:45 p.m. You can see them anywhere in the fairgrounds.
I plan on going to the fair a few more times. I still want to look at the winning cakes, watch the pig races, and see the goats vie for the top hay bale inside the Kelley building. And, of course, I have to sink a ping pong ball in a fish bowl so I can win that damn goldfish.
