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If you were following LA Foodie’s Twitter stream this past Friday, you might have noticed a bunch of rapid updates right around 4 PM. That’s because on Fridays, from 12 Noon to 4 PM, nearly all of the food vendors at the OC Fair participate in something that I like to call, “Many Mini Snacks.” The OC Fair’s theme this year is “Let’s Eat,” so we did. For four hours each Friday, you can get snack-sized samples from most of the vendors for two bucks. Lest you think that’s a rip-off, think of it this way: Would you rather spend ten dollars on a gigantic brick of french fries, or would you rather spend that ten bucks on a roughly equal amount of five different things? For me, the choice is easy. Variety is the secret blend of eleven herbs and spices of life.
You can click on each title below for a link to the original tweet. Whee! It’s like time travel!
We hit as many places as we could before the 2 PM deadline, and this is what we ate.
Pulled pork from The Chuck Wagon
Hold me closer, tiny portions
Moose Tracks Dippin’ Dots
That dish is pretty shallow, but how many frozen ice cream pellets can you eat at one time? I wonder if anybody has ever had a Dippin’ Dots eating contest before. If not, somebody should.
Roasted corn from the roasted corn guy
This was sold as a “half-ear,” but come on — that’s a whole ear. Loud and clear.
A tiny slice of pizza
Just like mom I used to make in college. To be fair, this was actually a pretty good slice of shitty cafeteria pizza. But I mean that with all sincerity.
Chili cheese fries
Chili cheese fries taste awesome. We don’t eat them because they make us hate ourselves for three to four days afterward. The solution: “$2 Chili Cheese Fries: The Right Amount of Chili Cheese Fries Every Time!”
Australian Battered Potato
The national fried potato slice of Australia. Look it up.
A refreshing adult beverage
I was getting tired. And thirsty. And sober.
California Roll
Settle down… it was fine. I’m not sure that I’ll ever get sushi at an outdoor fair again. But it was fine.
Kettle Corn
Kettle corn. You gotta get kettle corn, right?
Nutella crepe
Do you think that the Nutella crepe feels sorry for the other crepes?
Shaved ice
Yeah… it wasn’t very good. What can you do?
Bratwurst
That’s not a weird angle. It’s a tiny little sausage. [joke machine inserts joke here]
Ten Pound Buns
This is “The Classic,” which is a toasted slice from a gigantic ten-pound loaf of bread, topped with cheese and broiled. Cheese on sourdough bread tastes awesome.
Deep fried Kool-Aid
!ALERT! The deep fried Kool-Aid is not part of the $2 promotion. But I figured that everybody would ask if I tried them, so here ya go. I tried them, and they were… fine. It’s a fried ball of dough that’s flavored with cherry Kool-Aid. So it’s gonna be good, but nothing about the Kool-Aid-ness of the preparation made them particularly unique.





















