At Fair, food on a stick, but also fun on a shoestring

Stop by Porky's on University Ave. and in NE Mpls for drive-in food ;) You can also get Gyro's outside the Fairgrounds too!

Bought discount admission ticket before the fair started-cost $18.00. Brought sandwiches from home. Brought rubbermaid water bottle, which we filled as needed at drinking fountains. Parked out in Shoreview, rode the free bus. Brought $50.00 to spend, spent 8 hours at the fair, spent nothing. Came home with lots of nice shopping bags, and free samples, pen, an updated State Highway map,and a visor. Including the cost of admission, I figure we broke even.

It's all about the food. Just watch the tv shows that are at the fair. VEry large people always shown in the videos. Calorie counters they ain't.

Dig "all you can drink milk" cups out of the trash and get it for free! Also, there's usually quite a bit left on turkey drumsticks in the trash.

My children and I spent very little in our hours at the fair. I brought water bottles, and we each chose one food item we really wanted and then shared with each other. We hit every educational exhibit we could find in the area we concentrated on (we didn't even make it to some buildings). We went on the river raft ride close to dark, and it was so slow they let us go twice. We finished up by listening to Abbamania for awhile (until their boredom and the cold got to us).

i wait by the satelites for left over grub

Going to the Fair on a budget ain't no fun. Eat til it hurts and then eat some more. Also be sure to take in the sights.....there are some fine sights too I might add.

I was a bit disappointed in the Hawaiian shave ice... for one it's "shave ice", NOT "shaved ice". Second, you're supposed to pack it down like a snowball before you add the syrup so it doesnt look like a pathetic melted snowcone. Third, you need to provide a SPOON and straw, not just a straw. The straw spoon combo thingy they give you is an unacceptable substitute. The whole point is to scrape the sides from the bottom up for a good spoonful, and use the straw to drink the melt. Fourth, not big enough. In Hawaii a small is the size of your head. We're talking about ice and syrup here - why skimp? I'd rather pay more to have it done right.

Still tasty, but definitely not at all reminiscent of the shave ice I've come to love in Hawaii. I seriously doubt the owner has ever set foot in Hawaii or ever had a real shave ice

bah humbug wrote:

It's all about the food. Just watch the tv shows that are at the fair. VEry large people always shown in the videos. Calorie counters they ain't.

Well said. Admission to the Fair should be hiked to weed out a lot of the economically-challenged who could better be spending their time volunteering to help the community. And the junk foods and alcohol contributing to the crisis of epidemic obesity should be much more heavily taxed until people no longer notice they've been banned. The Fair is an anachronistic, unnecessary luxury that serves no positive purpose to modern society. Perhaps it's time for the PTB to consider discontinuing the Fair and relegating its memory to history as an unfortunate example of excess, greed, and waste.

Mrs R wrote:

Dig "all you can drink milk" cups out of the trash and get it for free! Also, there's usually quite a bit left on turkey drumsticks in the trash.

Sounds just like DemonicRat. Change we can believe in. Get it for free, and fight for the leftovers.

DFL4LIFE wrote:

<quoted text>Well said. Admission to the Fair should be hiked to weed out a lot of the economically-challenged who could better be spending their time volunteering to help the community. And the junk foods and alcohol contributing to the crisis of epidemic obesity should be much more heavily taxed until people no longer notice they've been banned. The Fair is an anachronistic, unnecessary luxury that serves no positive purpose to modern society. Perhaps it's time for the PTB to consider discontinuing the Fair and relegating its memory to history as an unfortunate example of excess, greed, and waste.

You are exactly what's wrong with this country today. Please, get some sleep!

DFL4LIFE wrote:

<quoted text>Well said. Admission to the Fair should be hiked to weed out a lot of the economically-challenged who could better be spending their time volunteering to help the community. And the junk foods and alcohol contributing to the crisis of epidemic obesity should be much more heavily taxed until people no longer notice they've been banned. The Fair is an anachronistic, unnecessary luxury that serves no positive purpose to modern society. Perhaps it's time for the PTB to consider discontinuing the Fair and relegating its memory to history as an unfortunate example of excess, greed, and waste.

I would say that we could count the space between your ears as an unfortunate example of waste.

Please get a clue soon.

DFL4LIFE wrote:

<quoted text>Well said. Admission to the Fair should be hiked to weed out a lot of the economically-challenged who could better be spending their time volunteering to help the community. And the junk foods and alcohol contributing to the crisis of epidemic obesity should be much more heavily taxed until people no longer notice they've been banned. The Fair is an anachronistic, unnecessary luxury that serves no positive purpose to modern society. Perhaps it's time for the PTB to consider discontinuing the Fair and relegating its memory to history as an unfortunate example of excess, greed, and waste.

Mommy won't let you go to the fair? Welfare not paying you enough to make it this year? One thing I can promise you: You are not welcome at the fair. Really, don't show your face there. Nobody wants to hear a party pooping whiny shrill beotch like you complain about others having a good time.

What is the point of going to the fair then? If you are broke, stay at home.

Also, to the poster above. The complainers are the middle class penny pinchers. Poor people don't care, if they have 400 dollars it will be spent and their rent can be late. Meanwhile, middleclass penny pinchers are clipping coupons and packing bolony sandwhiches. Look at the above posters.

Mrs R wrote:

Dig "all you can drink milk" cups out of the trash and get it for free! Also, there's usually quite a bit left on turkey drumsticks in the trash.

Are you nuts?

Aint that news wrote:

<quoted text>Are you nuts?

Not at all! Also, if you hang around the trash can closest to a restroom, people tend to throw away partially eaten hot dogs, pronto pups etc. just before they go in. Yum!

Mrs R wrote:

Dig "all you can drink milk" cups out of the trash and get it for free! Also, there's usually quite a bit left on turkey drumsticks in the trash.

Yep the milk cup trash drive works great...It's been a family tradition of ours for decades..

Mrs R wrote:

<quoted text>
Not at all! Also, if you hang around the trash can closest to a restroom, people tend to throw away partially eaten hot dogs, pronto pups etc. just before they go in. Yum!

You can't be serious...

sock wrote:

<quoted text>
You can't be serious...

3

Of course I am! It's criminal how much is wasted in this country.