Virginia’s State Fair is less than a month away, and organizers are gearing up to host nearly a quarter of a million people at the Meadow Event Park near Richmond.
In addition to rides, music and agricultural competitions, the fair will offer its usual selection of junk food – corn dogs, funnel cakes, cotton candy and something new.
“This year we have deep fried butter – a hunk of butter with batter, dropped in the deep fryer.”
That’s the Farm Bureau Federation’s Kathy Dixon. She says there isn’t much call for healthier fare.
“We last year talked about doing a food trail, where you could track down healthy foods, and quite honestly there was not much interest in that.”
But all is not lost. In an effort to capture the younger market, the fair invites children to a petting zoo for produce.
“We have a vegetable petting patch this year, where kids can go and touch and feel and look at different vegetables and make that connection between what they’re dipping in ranch dressing and how it grows.”
The fair runs from September 25th to October 4th in Doswell.
