Happiness... on a stick.
08:39 Oct 20 2007
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My son was kind enough to allow me to accompany him to see Weird Al Yankovic performing at the Arizona State Fair this past Tuesday, 10/16. The show was awesome (as all I've attended have been), but even moreso this time, as we had front row/center seats. Hey, I even got a face full of water when Al did the song "Smells Like Nirvana"... when he drinks a little to do the gargley part, then throws the rest of the water + cup out into the audience.
That was pretty much all we did... walk around the fairgrounds... take in the concert... walk around some more... and, finally, get something excrutiatingly expensive (yeah, like there's any other price range at the fair) to eat.
My son had heard about, and was very anxious to try, deep fried rattlesnake nuggets. Ugh. I don't like snakes... not to touch, let alone ingest. Blah! Anyway, he spent $15 on an order of rattlesnake, with fries of course.... how else can you justify the price?!? I went elsewhere and got one of my traditional fair favorites... Indian fry bread w/beans & cheese. This was a steel at $9.50 for the main course and the large Coke. Somehow, even though I was completely and utterly content to consume my fry bread, my son convinced me to try a sample of rattlesnake. The nugget very closely resembled a deep-fried clam strip.... probably why I was able to even hold it in my hand without freaking out. It took everything I had, though... all my will power and desire to make my son proud... to actually pop that little mofo into my mouth, chew it up and swallow it. But, I did it... and it tasted quite peppery... and when I think about it, it almost makes me want to gag... totally.
In order to purge my mouth of that delightfully peppery serpantine taste (though, it wasn't that bad, but ya know... snake... ew!), I decided the best way to cleanse my pallet (and insure the integrity of my vehicle's upholstery on the drive home), was to partake of a chocolate-covered cheesecake... on a stick. I ask you... is there ANYTHING they won't put on a stick??
Long story short: Weird Al threw water in my face... I ate a hunk o' rattlesnake... and I topped off the night with an impaled dessert. Do I know how to live life on the edge, or what??
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