Minnesota State Fair: Is the Food Still Worth the Hype? | Amazing Pop Culture

Dags and Mike Rez take on the Great Minnesota Get-Together — from waiting nearly an hour for an Amish donut to Pronto Pups, Sweet Martha’s cookies, mini donuts, giant hot dogs and Minnesota’s strange tradition of putting seemingly everything on a stick.

But, as usual, the conversation doesn’t stay in one place for long.

They look back at the Minnesota State Fair they remember — Ye Old Mill, the Giant Slide, the rodeo, racetrack and old Grandstand shows — and talk about how the fair has changed with more food, alcohol, permanent buildings and entertainment.

Then come the rabbit holes.

Is a Pronto Pup really different from a corn dog? Why will people stand in enormous lines for food? Are portions getting smaller while prices keep climbing? Why can a familiar food look exactly the same but somehow taste worse than it used to? And have we slowly gotten used to lower-quality and artificial ingredients?

Dags and Mike Rez also get into Bonnie Raitt at the Grandstand, concert ticket prices, fair parking, those massive attendance numbers, digital creators posing with their food, Domino’s Detroit-style pizza and the increasingly strange world of shrinkflation.

And somehow it all ends with cats, honey bees and yellow jackets.

It’s part Minnesota State Fair nostalgia, part food debate and part cultural rabbit hole — which is pretty much how conversations go around here.

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