Bemoaning the Lack of Cheese

A great big thanks to Jake and Kris for warning me that there are no deep fried cheese curds in the Pacific Northwest.

Despite my best efforts to convince the misses to let me spend that money on Legos instead, we went to the Puyallup fair this weekend. It was smaller than Minnesota one, but the Midway seemed as large, maybe larger, than it was last time I was in Minnesota for the fair, going on 12 years ago. Anyhow, this totally blew the crap out of Albuquerquequeque's NEW Mexico STATE Fair. (Emphasis just to remind people that it is indeed one out of the 50) So, I was feeling a tiny bit of nostalgia despite never having been anywhere in Puyallup but the Safeway before.

Had I not been warned, that nostalgia may have led me to spend hours pointlessly circling, looking for the greasy goodness of the deep fried cheese curd. Failing to find it could have left me scarred - emotionally, that is. (I could have been physically scarred if they'd had them. I seem to recall the occasional curd that had a pocket of hot oil inside it).

Why is it that in MN you find those things everywhere (not just at the State Fair, and the County Fairs, but also unlikely places like the Como Park Zoo and the Renaissance Festival - I'm sure deep fried cheese curds were quite popular in Shakespeare's day), but in the rest of the country they are nonexistent? How can fate be so cruel?

At the New Mexico fair, they at least had a "we'll fry anything" booth. Sadly, to get cheese curds in Albuquerque you had to use mail-order. Ever buy an eBay-ed cheese curd? I don't recommend it.

Point being, this is a travesty. Listen up, State of Washington. You'd better fry me some cheese curds, or I won't be dropping my hard-earned... well, my wife's hard-earned cash at your fairs (I am a "kept man" after all. My cash is earned by services that would be illegal if she weren't married to me.) much longer! Remember, non-dairy-fairs, you're competing with Lego.