“It’s a cow made of butter. Use your imagination.”
The Washington Post’s Philip Bump took the day after a whirlwind of presidential candidate stops at the Iowa State Fair and spent Sunday being a regular fairgoer and making a photo essay about all the things and people you see at the fair that aren’t surrounded by reporters and boom mikes. Corn ogling is involved.*
It looks like the candidates appear to have taken my advice and went for the pork chop on a stick instead of a corn dog. Notice, also, that said item is now seven dollars, a price increase effective last year, after seven years at $6. Internet evidence of the previous increase is clear in comparing a 2006 blog post with a 2007 YouTube clip. As for the cattlemen (who may be feeling a bit left out), their two top items — prime rib dinner and hot beef sundae — are up 40% ($13 to $18) and 25% ($6 to $7.50) since 2008.
*The Corn Oglers would be a good name for a bluegrass band.