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WORTH THE WAIT!
By TILDON DUNN
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Overton said fair-goers’ favorites are typically roasted corn, funnel cakes, turkey legs and the many other things vendors find to fry and/or put on a stick. “I know that our vendors are busy dreaming up their new foods to bring (this year) – and it’s a list we generally put on our Facebook page about a week before the start of the Fair.” She also noted that Cary Methodist Church – which has sold ham biscuits at the fair for more than 100 years – returns this year, along with NC State Fair Howling Cow Ice Cream.
NORTH CAROLINA STATE FAIR OFFERS RIDES, LIVE MUSIC, EXHIBITS, COMPETITIONS AND FOOD!
he North Carolina State Fair – dating back to 1853 – returns this year on Oct. 14-24 offering rides, music, people-watching, educational exhibits, commercial exhibits, competitions, livestock, free entertainment, old time heritage crafts and much more. And, of course…the food. Or, perhaps more accurately: THE FOOD! “We know that food is the number one reason people come to the fair,” said Heather Overton, the fair’s Assistant Director of Public Affairs. “And many, like me, cannot wait for the return of our fair food vendors.”
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