Labor Day Traditions

Saturday, September 4, 2010

We wait all summer for this one day to pig out on fair food.  Our day begins at 7 am with a trip to McDonald's on our way to Swapper's Day, an annual flea market in Johnstown.  After several hours of looking for bargains, I enjoy a corn dog and fries. (My arteries are hardening as I write this.)

After a mid-afternoon nap (bargaining hunting is very tiring) we make our way to the Millersport Sweet Corn Festival.  Since I LOVE to watch the antique tractor pull, we start there first.  This year I was very excited to see two women participate:

The best part of the Sweet Corn Festival is the food.  In true central Ohio style, all one does at the festival is eat and people watch. And then eat some more.

My two favorite food booths include 1.) the sweet corn and 2.) the homemade doughnuts. 

Corn is $1.25 an ear and we never buy enough.  However the line is so long that we don't go back - there is always the elephant ears, fried bologna sandwiches, tacos in a bag.....

The ultimate is the doughnuts.  

"Oh, what should we get?"

This year we stood in line for over 30 minutes:

Yes, all these people are waiting for doughnuts.

We did secure one dozen - 4 maple-glazed, 4 vanilla-glazed and, my favorite, 4 cinnamon sugar.  Sorry no picture - since they were still warm, Dave decided we need to sample a few.  A half a dozen later, he thought we should have purchased 2 dozen!!! Men....