Fried state fair on a stick.

State fairs are particularly known for their various fried foods on sticks - think a corn dog, but with pretty much anything you desire in the middle. Most of the rest of the food on offer isn't particularly good for you, either. But health is not the point of the state fair.

See? Why eat just plain, fresh, BORING fruit when you could fry it and put it on a stick? But we saw this when we first got to the fair, around 10:30 in the morning - far too early for something like this, of course.

So instead we got an overflowing bucket of Sweet Martha's chocolate chip cookies. They were pretty good, actually - brought to mind more my own homemade ones than gross mass-produced ones. Krystal and I each had a couple, but there were still too many to fit the lid on the bucket, so we started handing them out to people. In fact, one couple even bought a couple off us because they just wanted a few, not a whole bucket. Clearly not truly dedicated to the state fair spirit.

Next stop: cheese on a stick [pretty much a self-contained grilled cheese]...

...and state fair lemonade.

Spamville. We did have too much dignity to get anything there, thank you very much.

Ethnic sausage by Cynthia! We got Italian.

You could get Reese's, Oreos... I got a Snickers. It was intense.

Someone else in the group tried one of these - he approved.

There was also "beer on a stick" [really just a couple cups of beer on a wooden paddle - although a guy at the Texas State Fair actually did create fried beer] and other gimmicks like that...everything, not just food, is advertised as "on a stick" - because that's just how we do at state fairs.