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By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 03:35:59 +0000

Patti, both of those are amazing — simply amazing!

By: Patti

Patti — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 14:27:35 +0000

Besides my kids, the two things I miss the most about Iowa are: the State Fair and the Saturday Farmer’s Market downtown. sigh!!

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Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:42:46 +0000

[...] first time I visited the Iowa State Fair, I arrived armed with an annotated [...]

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:48:35 +0000

Oh. NC Heather. Fried cheese grits on a stick? I would fly in for THAT.

By: NC Heather

NC Heather — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:07:44 +0000

I realized there are two Heather’s who respond to the blog, so thought I should differentiate the two!

A Ham Biscuit on a Stick – what a lovely, lovely idea. Would we batter and fry it I wonder? Oh – what about fried cheese grits on a stick?

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:15:41 +0000

Emma, ham biscuit on a stick…wow! Now THAT is an idea. Luckily I seem to have a stomach of steel — no Zantac necessary. I’m not sure whether that’s a good or bad thing, though — it seems to me that one’s own body should probably not allow that kind of abuse…but oh well!

By: Emma

Emma — Sun, 19 Aug 2007 16:13:35 +0000

that would be a ham biscuit on a stick! LOL. I hope you had a pocketbook full of zantac for those corndogs and rocks..er potatoes..and sticks. ;-) I would have been there dog for dog with ya!

Emma

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:46:32 +0000

Heather, oh, yes, indeed. And I realized I left that off my list of things I had consumed pre-potato lollipop! Iowa does have its moments of sophistication, most definitely. I’m not sure those include the people tanking it up in the beer tent, but a cold brew is mighty refreshing after hiking around the cow barn. And stop teasing me with thoughts of the ham biscuit. Stop it! :-)

By: Heather

Heather — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 20:36:35 +0000

Brew? At a State Fair? Say it ain’t so! Here I’ve been telling you to move back to the land of progress, yet our State Fair serves no booze to my knowledge. Maybe Iowa is actually ahead of the rest of us.

Ah the Fair – I CANNOT wait to go this year! Corn dogs and fried cheese are always on the top of the list. Down south here, the ham biscuit is also an important Fair staple.

By: inadvertentgardener

inadvertentgardener — Fri, 17 Aug 2007 14:39:28 +0000

2Witches, at the very least, the pickle is something you could replicate at home. But yeah, missing the Fair is a sad, sad thing.

AB, um…as much as I’d love to have you in the state, I’m not sure it’s worth moving to Iowa just for the egg-on-stick. I mean, you really could do that at home, too.