Ah, state fair season! I can still feel the bruises on my forearms from scooping ice cream at mine when I was in high school. Though they're good old fashioned fun, fairs are kind of a suck on the planet. Just because that fried Twinkie on a stick has less packaging than the one you'd open at home, the generators required to heat up the fryers, the napkins — the carnival of waste is almost endless.
Some states are working to combat the rough on the earth reputation the way John McCain wants to cut out porkbarrel spending. (Get it? McCain? By a giant pig?) The Illinois State Fair is giving a green vendor award for the first time — the Donut Family won for serving in paper instead of styrofoam — and California and Washington have installed solar panels to make electricity, and turn all of their cooking oil into biofuels. See?! That deep-fried Twinkie is good for the environment.
Recycling is beginning slowly — and given the cost to fairs to haul trash — $165,000 in Illinois for 37 tons a day for 10 days, the move toward conservation could be perfect for man, beast, and pies alike.
Are you heading to your state fair?
Herve Leger
CNC Costume National
S***r
Now the green movement has to take away my fun at the fair? whats better than eating a corn dog and just dropping the stick? or licking that plate clean of grease and powdered sugar after chowing down a funnel cake and flinging it into the air?
1Seriously? Your fun is dependent on littering?
2Hey, it's the green's desire to suck the fun out of everything.
3"Fairs in California and Washington are ahead of the curve, installing solar panels to generate electricity and converting used cooking oil into biofuel."
I don't see how these things take the fun out of anything - people use trash bins anyway, now it's just actual trash and recycling bins. A good composting plan is a great educational opportunity, coffee grounds and compost materials could be made available for gardeners to pick up (some grocery stores and Starbucks already dot this.) I would think fairs would be a great place to show off green inovations.
4See, this is where the green movement doesn't bother me. It doesn't hurt anything, it probably helps, and it's not using taxpayer money. Now, if they try to get rid of fairs, my rant will begin!
5if they composted food scraps at fairs they would save probably 60% of their waste removal cost.
6where is the funny bone on you people? seriously, no my fun doesnt depend on littering.....well, i thought Lorena Bobbitts littering stint was funny
7
I got the joke cat.
8I think it could help save money, so why not?
9That is one fat pig.
10lol, and you know it is some little 90 lb. kid showing it. But the great thing about FFA auctions at state fairs is, this kid will probably get a good $10,000 dollars for it.
11I want to eat it. The entire thing. Mmmmm bacon...
12mmmm...pickled pigs feet.
13Me and the pig:
(except for the feat and tail.... I'll make those into haloween costumes)
14FEEEEEEEEEET
not FEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAT
15oh man. i'm on a roll. i know i misspelled halloween as well.
I have to sing a song from elementary school in order to remember the spelling of halloween:
H - A - Double L - O - W - Double E - N.... spells Halloween!
16Pig pickings are pretty big here but I don't think I've ever seen a grill big enough to handle that porker.
17lol, Amy, I have to M - I - Crooked letter - Crooked letter.... every time i spell Mississippi.
18Piper, you should see some of the big smokers down here in the south!
19We could fit that pig plus her two fat sisters!
20Awww, that's cute! I'll have to use that.
21You haven't heard it? It goes, M-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-crooked letter-crooked letter-I-humpback-humpback-I
22Everything's bigger in TX. I read that somewhere.
23True, except for real estate prices. When I watch HGTV and see how tiny the houses are for the price in other places it blows my mind.
24Me too! I'm glad I live where I do.
25Ditto!
26The Illinois state fair already had sculptures made out of butter. That's pretty green
27Ohio has those, too!
28Went to a wine festival last weekend and they were roasting a pig about that size. It was soooooooooooo good
29MMmmmm! Between that pig and the butter statue of Shawn Johnson in Iowa, I feel left out!
30Haha! I remember when I was 19 my summer job was at the Sheraton Hotel next door to the Los Angeles Co. Fair grounds. I got to do the morning breakfast service for the diving team. Lord have mercy serving a bunch of hot men in towels is exactly what the Dr. ordered.
Let's face it green technology is moving in and taking it's rightful place at the table. I would like to see solar panels which have been around for what decades now on every public school that would benefit from them.
31yeah, I think they've been around since the seventies Hypno. One of our neighbors growing up had them on his house. I always thought they were horribly ugly skylights. I even said this one time and my parents laughed for a straight five minutes. I was not amused!
32I think solar power is a great idea.
33The price of making solar panels has recently been drastically reduced as well (on NPR I heard the main ingredient has been significantly reduced in price for some reason). I think solar power is a great investment, and a nationwide resource.
34i love that even fairs are considering the impact they have on the world and are going green to some extent. it's fun to think that there are implications that can be used for just about anything!
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