by John Hardaway (@CoachHardaway)9/22/2025 8:59:27 AM
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It's mid-September and prep, college and professional football is now in full swing.
This time of year also means its State Fair time and my annual pilgrimage to the Super Bowl of all things fried, roasted, smoked and freshly squeezed happened last week.
The routine has become pretty standard over the years and I have even included all the prior State Fair trips blogs for your reading enjoyment.
Contained in these you find plenty of food pictures of all of my favorites, some still in the rotation, some that are not and some that have been retired.
The first stop is almost always the same, the green Poncho Dog stand. Corn Dogs are the MVP of the fair in my humble opinion and the night we went it just so happened to be $4 corn dog night, which normally goes for $8.
Confession time: I ate 3 of them and it was awesome. I justified my decision making with the fact that I didn’t eat breakfast or lunch, had already worked out that day and I knew I wasn’t going to eat an Indian Taco (see 2024 Fair Blog for reason why).
If anyone else took advantage of the $4 corn dog night like I did, I applaud you!
After the first corn dog consumption (which actually was a $10 jumbo one), we made our way to the roasted corn stand.
I decided to give the “Corn in a Cup” a try instead of the standard ear of corn and it was fantastic!
Check out the picture of this cup of corn packed full of flavor and much easier to eat! I highly recommend the “Corn in a Cup.”
The corn was pretty spicy, which I liked, and this required my first Brown’s Fresh Squeezed Lemonade, which is the only option for true lemonade lovers at the fair.
Look for the Browns name and avoid the others. I may or may not have had 3 lemonade refills during the course of the evening.
After the corn in a cup and lemonades, I headed back to the Poncho Dog stand for corn dog 2 and 3 and they were just as good, if not better, than the first, piping hot from the fryer with a line of mustard down the side.
Twenty minutes later, I was feeling pretty miserable, but still looking forward to the “Cobbler in a Cup” dessert that I had been seeing and hearing about since the fair opened.
When we got the “Cobbler in a Cup” truck, the line was a mile long and I had lost some of my initial motivation.
My estimate was a 15-20 minute wait and for as good as it looked I decided I would just catch a cinnamon roll on my way out.
When we got to the cinnamon roll truck, it was also a mile long and we just kept on walking by as I grabbed a few little bites of my kids funnel cake and called it good.
I also thought the Fried Pie and Vanilla Ice Cream truck had some major potential, but we came upon it early in the middle of the corn dog tsunami and the sweet stuff was something I was going to have at the end so I didn’t indulge, but maybe next year.
Also, apparently there was a fried pecan pie vendor at the fair that my friends kept secret to themselves and then criticized me for not trying or finding it, which is pretty ridiculous if you ask me.
Overall the trip to the fair was great and I ran 3 miles the next day - 1 mile for each corn dog I devoured the night before.
Do you have any fair food pictures? What is your favorite fair food? Please share!
https://skordle.com/blog/993/Oklahoma_State_Fair_Trip_2024_-_Where_is_the_Beef?
https://skordle.com/blog/974/SKORDLE_SAMPLER_-_Week_5_(2023)_The_State_Fair_of_Oklahoma
https://skordle.com/blog/953/SKORDLE_SAMPLER_-_Week_4_(2022)_-_The_State_Fair_Food_Tour
https://skordle.com/blog/870/SKORDLE_SAMPLER_-_Week_4_(2020)
https://skordle.com/blog/804/SKORDLE_SAMPLER_The_State_Fair_of_Oklahoma