“Cotton candy, corn dogs and candy apples once ruled the midway at the local fair, but visitors now want food that’s exotic—as long as it’s on a stick…”

Maybe the national farmers market movement needs to do a top 10 food items list. That side-by-side comparison with this one would show once again how the industrial food system is obsessed with caloric count and additives versus alternative food’s obsession with taste and healthy foods.

Although let me say that fairs have a place in local food systems, and it might be time for farmers market organizers to saunter over to the exhibition area and shake a few hands, or hand out some flyers to the seniors heading to the exit…

Wacky Fair Foods