Redneck Fun.
It’s fair week. The county shuts down and everyone piles into a car and they go to the fairgrounds to eat Porkettes and elephant ears and to mingle with their neighbors and to show off 12 year old ass and to look at antique tractors and to smell the livestock barns and to watch the tractor pulls and to dunk the 4H kids and to listen to 2nd string country singers croon and to get generally dirty.
My college roommate was visiting me so we and Rusty headed in on Wednesday night to catch the Tough Truck competition. And to eat Porkettes. And to mingle…
Tough Truck was at one time regulated to a far corner of the fairgrounds and only a couple twenty trucks ran. But it became too popular and is now in contention with the demolition derby for most mullets in attendance. Tough Truck is now a grandstand event. It’s a dirt course that has 5-6 main obstacles on it. A giant hole that must be driven through, some jumps in succession, offset bumps, and a giant ramp.
Your truck is judged on two things, time through and distance launched off the end ramp. This year there were about 80 trucks running. Most were beaters, slapped together just to run the thing. Broncos, Jeeps, Toyotas and Fords. There were about 6 trucks that had serious money and know-how in putting them together. They were no longer recognizable as any brand. Just a fabricated frame with a lightweight body slapped on top. And serious suspension systems. Then there were a couple less likely vehicles. A Ford Explorer. A tuck with the frame on body backwards. A hot rod. A flatbed duelly with two kegs strapped onto the back. And this beauty.
Bet my Wednesday night was more fun than yours.
My college roommate was visiting me so we and Rusty headed in on Wednesday night to catch the Tough Truck competition. And to eat Porkettes. And to mingle…
Tough Truck was at one time regulated to a far corner of the fairgrounds and only a couple twenty trucks ran. But it became too popular and is now in contention with the demolition derby for most mullets in attendance. Tough Truck is now a grandstand event. It’s a dirt course that has 5-6 main obstacles on it. A giant hole that must be driven through, some jumps in succession, offset bumps, and a giant ramp.
Your truck is judged on two things, time through and distance launched off the end ramp. This year there were about 80 trucks running. Most were beaters, slapped together just to run the thing. Broncos, Jeeps, Toyotas and Fords. There were about 6 trucks that had serious money and know-how in putting them together. They were no longer recognizable as any brand. Just a fabricated frame with a lightweight body slapped on top. And serious suspension systems. Then there were a couple less likely vehicles. A Ford Explorer. A tuck with the frame on body backwards. A hot rod. A flatbed duelly with two kegs strapped onto the back. And this beauty.Bet my Wednesday night was more fun than yours.
posted by Lord of the Barnyard at 2:05 PM
10 Comments:
well said.
though i believe it is called 'rough truck.' not 'tough truck.'
i think, in years past, it was 'tough truck.' as i recall the name was changed 3 or 4 years ago or something.
You forgot pickles on a stick.
Our horse shows have been relegated to the back side of the fairgrounds to make room for the truck and atv "mud slings."
I'm dumber for having seen it.
i dunno. somehow the ohio fairs miss out on most of the best foods. we don't participate much in the putting of things on sticks. excepting that we do pronto pups but still, we insist on calling them corn dogs.
How about taco in a bag? That's a new one that developed while we were away....
You take a small bag of doritos and smash them, throw in some ground beef, lettuce, cheese, and tomato. Serve with a plastic fork.
Then there's Maid Rights, which is a franchise name turned generic. It's like a sloppy joe without the tomato sauce.
One of the "trendier" food carts was selling flavored ice tea (a spritz of lemon or rasberry) for an extra quarter.
i'm finally catching up on your blog and my own. i can't believe china blocks blogs! anyway, OUR little county fair has COMBINE demolition derbies. bet you guys don't have anything quite so cool! and about aunt nancy's barn...i swear i saw lightning hit it when i was last there....
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Lotb:
Here in Washington, the State Fair in Puyallup ("pew-al-lup") is a huge deal. You can get deep fried Snickers bars, Elephant Ears (deep fried bread with butter, cinnamon and sugar) and scones with strawberry jam. The line is a block long for the scones.
We also have a thingy similar to the Dorito thingy sassenach described, however it's made with a bag of Fritos and it's called a Pepper Belly.
Man, now I'm hungry.
oh yeah, what's it mean your "dad was sent to the hole?" what the heck is that?
What is a Porkette?
no, our fair is rather mundane and unspectacular in most every way. porkettes are just pork rather than beef hamburgers.
the hole is solitary confinement. where the people who have been found to have done something bad and have been again found to have done something bad are sent.
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