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3921 Martin Luther King Jr Bl Dallas, TX 75210

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Best Tourist Attraction
Award Winner 2010

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2010 | Best Tourist Attraction

After a tummy-full of corn dogs, fried what-have-you's and a gastro-churning spin on the Techno Power carnival ride, a State Fair of Texas patron could be forgiven for just wanting to have a sit for a minute. But that's not what State Fair of Texas patrons do. Because if you've come in from halfway across who-knows-where to see the best of what the state has to offer, you won't turn around after one go-round on the Texas Star. Whereas Dealey Plaza and Reunion Tower are surely nice places to... More »
2008 | Best Chicken-Fried Pride

Glen Kusak's chicken-fried bacon won the award for "Best Taste" in this year's State Fair of Texas food contest, but let's give credit where credit's due. Chicken-fried bacon's been served up for years at Sodalak's Original County Inn, located in the small Texas town of Snook. They even serve it with cream gravy--none of the wussy ranch and honey mustard that Kusak's offering. We do, however, want to thank Kusak for bringing the delicacy to Big D, since we'd like to be as close as... More »
2007 | Best Outing With the Kids

Carousels, the giant Ferris wheel, pie-baking contests, friendly 4H kids in overalls grooming their prize pigs--everywhere you turn at the State Fair of Texas (running this year through October 21), it's a scene from Charlotte's Web. If you haven't been to the fair in a few years, rest assured that it's still chock full of old-fashioned goodness. The junk food's fried without trans fats now, so go ahead and stuff yourself on Fletcher's Corny Dogs, Belgian waffles and funnel cakes.... More »
2006 | Best Place to Be Alone <br />in a Crowd

Come on, do you really want anyone you know to see you gobbling down that third Fletcher's Corny Dog That's just one of many reasons to wander the vast fairgrounds unaccompanied. It's so much more fun to hit the State Fair on your own than to have to constantly be negotiating: New cars or Polynesian dancers The cover band at the Chevy Stage or a stroll over to the midway to lose a few dollars whacking moles with a mallet If you're doing it on your own, you can improvise. Go ahead and try... More »

Falling for Big Tex's Line

By Patrick Williams | Thu, September 08, 2011

Fair warning: So what is it about Big Tex? Is he the devil, or are we just dumb? How does that tall, black-haired State Fair icon tempt us back to Fair Park year after year, though we know pretty much exactly what we'll get? It's not that we don'... More »
North Texas Food Bank Sets State Fair Record

By Hanna Raskin | Fri, October 15, 2010

Tallies of how much food was consumed at the State Fair of Texas this year aren't yet available, but the amount of food donated was record-setting. The North Texas Food Bank this morning announced it... More »
The Tacos of the State Fair of Texas

By | Fri, October 15, 2010

Novel and atrocious fried foods aren't the only foodstuffs available at the State Fair of Texas. Among the alternatives are tacos, one of which threw me for a loop. To begin my hunt, I searched the St... More »
A State Fair Summation From a Food-Loving Arkansawyer

By City of Ate | Thu, October 14, 2010

Editor's Note: Of the gazillion people who yearly visit the State Fair of Texas, a good number of them are outlanders. One of those visitors this year offered to share her fair reflections with City o... More »
North Texas Food Bank Looks to Set Can Collection Record

By Hanna Raskin | Wed, October 13, 2010

The North Texas Food Bank is on track to set a record for most cans collected during the State Fair of Texas. Today's the third "It's a Fair Deal" Wednesday, on which three canned food items are redee... More »
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dallasobserverbestof | Dallas, TX | 193 Reviews

| Wed, May 6, 2009

Glen Kusak's chicken-fried bacon won the award for "Best Taste" in this year's State Fair of Texas food contest, but let's give credit where credit's due. Chicken-fried bacon's been served up for years at Sodalak's Original County Inn, located in the small Texas town of Snook. They even serve it with cream gravy�none of the wussy ranch and honey mustard that Kusak's offering. We do, however, want to thank Kusak for bringing the delicacy to Big D, since we'd like to be as close as possible to our primary care physician after forking over our food tickets. But if you're on a diet, don't fret. Downing a few strips of chicken-fried goodness ain't cheatin'�it's doing your duty as a Texan. After all, as chicken-fried godfather Frank Sodolak once said on Texas Country Reporter, "your own body can tell what's good for ya."
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sfranch | Dallas, TX | 244 Reviews

| Fri, February 5, 2010

A Do-Not-Miss event in Dallas' forgotten Fair Park. The art deco building themselves are worth the trip, but then again...so are the corny dogs.
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sstrng | Dallas, TX | 27 Reviews

| Sun, March 6, 2011

Fletcher Corny Dogs are a once a year tradition. Eating them more often could be bad for your health.
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