{"id":15623,"date":"2024-07-25T10:00:58","date_gmt":"2024-07-25T15:00:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2024-07-22T20:38:06","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:38:06","slug":"best-refills-at-the-fair-gone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2024\/07\/best-refills-at-the-fair-gone\/","title":{"rendered":"Best refills at the fair, gone"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s a short story, but a notable one. Crescenti’s food stand won’t be at the Iowa State Fair for the first time in four decades. The five-paragraph, two-subhead story in the Des Moines Register<\/em> says the owner is hanging it up.<\/p>\n

The Register<\/em> story, which was posted online July 17<\/a> and printed July 22, has an error in it. Crescenti’s is<\/del> was nowhere near the horse barn<\/em>. It’s much closer to the Pavilion, or even more accurately Pella Plaza, near the south end of the Triangle<\/a>\u00a0and the Riley Stage.<\/p>\n

In a detail not covered in that story, Crescenti’s consistently had the cheapest drink refills at the fair, usually by 50 cents. Everyone raised prices in 2021, but I still would walk from a good ways away \u2014 perhaps even the horse barn \u2014 to get my multiple-years-old refillable container refilled there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s a short story, but a notable one. Crescenti’s food stand won’t be at the Iowa State Fair for the first time in four decades. The five-paragraph, two-subhead story in the Des Moines Register says the owner is hanging it … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-iowa-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15624,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}