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Ok, I warned you that I had one more Illiois State Fair post to go along with my State Fair recap<\/a> post, and now here it is.<\/p>\n

When I was a lad growing up in Springfield, my family would go to the Illinois State Fair every year. My dad would usually drag us to a particular building that displayed lots of different foods that had been submitted for judging. Farmers would submit fruits and vegetables, people would bake pies and cakes, breads, etc. You would submit your food, it would be judged, and if you won your category I’m guessing you would get some sort of monetary prize.<\/p>\n

Now, the fair runs 8 or 9 days. The food goes up for display in a building at the start of the fair, and stays there until the fair is over. My dad would prefer going the second weekend of the fair, when all the cakes, vegetables, etc., were in less than stellar condition. To put it bluntly, the food was rotting<\/span>. This is just his sense of humor, which for the most part was passed down to me intact.<\/p>\n

Now, in my childhood this building was not air-conditioned. If it was 90 degrees outside, it was pretty much the same temperature in the building. These days the building is air-conditioned, but still the ravages of time work their magic over the week that the food sits out.<\/p>\n

I took pictures the first weekend of the fair, and asked my brother (who is down there this weekend) to take some pictures the second weekend.<\/p>\n

Here are the results. Enjoy!<\/p>\n

Carrots and Lettuce, before:
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And after. Note the carrots are somewhat dessicated, the lettuce mottled.
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Peppers before
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Peppers after
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Eggplants before
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Eggplants after
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Barbecue Bites before
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And after
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Pies before
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After
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Alien cake before
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And after (no change)
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Apparently after I left the fair, they had some sort of Spam cooking contest. Here are some of the entries. I’m assuming that they looked more appetizing when first displayed, though I can’t verify this.<\/p>\n

Spam Something
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More Spam
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One last picture of a delectable Illinois State Fair entry. Who wants dip?
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Thanks again to my brother for braving the putrid stench of rotten food to get these lovely pictures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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