Comments on: Fair Food Scramble at the Sonoma County Fair

By: Frank

Frank — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 23:59:18 +0000

Heather,
As a lifelong horseplayer, I wait all year for the fair and live horseracing! I would love to try all of the fair food also, but since I am retired,
I have to get my priorites right ! Thus, I cannot afford to pigout on all of the delicious food ! This would be the perfect day and I can guarantee that I am available should I be fortunate enough to be a part of your crew!!!!

By: sheila

sheila — Mon, 19 Jul 2010 12:37:15 +0000

So True, I am GM for a fast food restaurant. Gloves do give false security “employees will do whatever they are doing with the gloves on,” then turn around and make your food you see the gloves and think its ok but you don’t know what they just did with the gloves on!!! If they were bare handed they would think quicker about washing their hands. Remember we live in a society where employees for the most part are lazy. They would have to take the gloves off wash their hands and put the gloves back on that is way to much work, just to make your sandwich. I saw a food prep person go from the dirty sink washing dishes to the table with gloves on the gloves full of water from the dirty sink. Hope that wasn’t your sandwich… No this wasn’t my restaurant I dont eat at this restaurant anymore Pay close attention to the person making your food with or without gloves

By: Thomas Morris

Thomas Morris — Tue, 22 Jun 2010 02:18:54 +0000

I love to taste some greek foods because they are very spicy.’;,

By: Wojamo

Wojamo — Fri, 07 Aug 2009 10:26:53 +0000

Wow- thanks for putting all this together! It’s a huge problem at the fair- wanting to try everything and only having so much cash and stomach space. I had planned on skipping the fair this year, but now I have to go!

By: MsSteak

MsSteak — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 19:34:36 +0000

Thanks for all the great reviews and tidbits!
Corndogs at the fish-n-chips place … eh?
OK. If you say so. I will give them a try.
Looks like the Pozole will be on my list of
things to eat this weekend too!

By: rmaudlin

rmaudlin — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 18:00:06 +0000

SOOO Saddd, 40+ years for my Dad and 31 years for me. Always our traditional first stop at the fair. (and everyday for the 4 years I worked at the fair)
I searched everywhere and finally asked the Dipped-Ice Cream lady if she new…She said they didn’t come to Sonoma County this year.
PLEASE come back!!! It’s just not the same without you!
There are no other flavors like yours.

By: Mike & Amberlee Lewis

Mike & Amberlee Lewis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:03:13 +0000

That is the only reason my wife even goes to the fair ! ! ! ! ! She is a miserable wreck ! ! ! ! !

By: Mike & Amberlee Lewis

Mike & Amberlee Lewis — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:03:13 +0000

That is the only reason my wife even goes to the fair ! ! ! ! ! She is a miserable wreck ! ! ! ! !

By: Jack

Jack — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 19:28:31 +0000

As of Sunday, August 2, at the hands-on Mackinac Fudge venue in the very fun Hall of Junque, this eyewitness saw gloves being sometimes worn by the fudge-maker as the fudge is stretched out and cut. Sometimes. The servers at the counter, one of them with wild uncontrolled hair billowing out below the shoulders like a New Yorker cartoon, touched fudge with wax paper and then took filthy lucre. One wonders in an age of H1N1 about cross-contamination in this famously “hands-on” fudge venue which should be one of the cleanest stalls at the SoCo fair. Both the fudge-maker and the talent tending the till remain rather suspect. Where is the SoCo Health Dept in checking on this stuff? As a former Michigander, I love Mackinac fudge. But I just can’t buy it at this venue until it cleans up its act. Even if it’s just perception more than hygiene.

By: Cindy

Cindy — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 23:40:37 +0000

I was so bummed when I found out no soft tacos this year. I have been eating them for 20 years. I hope they come back next year!