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2011 Indiana State Fair Opening Day In Pictures

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It’s Indiana State Fair time again and Naptown Buzz was there on opening day to check things out!

Here are the best photos of the day.


Food on a Stick!


Pigs are everywhere!


More pigs!


Mmmm…Corn Dogs.


Now we’re talking! Deep fried everything!


Try the deep fried butter if you like cinnamon rolls. The Naptown Buzz Crew has yet to try the Kool-Aid.


Fair Food of the Year: Fried Ice Cream.


Pulled lamb & deep fried mac n’ cheese.


Free ice cream from Turkey Hill. They’re rocking the QR codes this year.


Giant corns.


The UPS mini truck.


Lactation station.


Not sure what this does, but it’s old and cool looking.


Maple Syrup & other goodies at the Hoosier Sugar Shack!


Milk truck.


Music in Pioneer Village.


Closest we got to wood carving today.


Splitting a log to make shingles.


The original “juicer”. (At least that’s our story.)


Free range birds.


The surge bucket milker!


“World’s Largest Flag Collection”.


Fair tram #3.


The buzzing bumble bees are busy at the fair too.


Food goodness, Twitter & QR Codes.


King Taters.


We never knew llamas dressed up for Halloween AND there’s a costume contest for it, but we were thrilled to find that out. In this photo we have Jack Skellington & Zero and some sort of prisoner zombie (from what we could tell).


This llama just wants to play baseball.


Bennie the Bean. He stands there and stares a lot in one direction.

Look at all of those potatoes!

2011 Indiana State Fair’s Signature Foods

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In honor of the fair’s “Year of Soybeans,” all the entries had to incorporate soybeans, soybean products or soy-fed livestock into the recipe, and the winner is…

Deep-fried ice cream

Baskin Robbins’ deep-fried ice cream has been selected as the Indiana State Fair’s Signature Food for 2011. Baskin Robbins vendors Bob and Ivy Walsh of Muncie submitted the winning entry and will offer it to fairgoers for $5 from their prize-winning spot on Main Street directly across from the Pepsi Coliseum. The dish is a sizable portion of vanilla ice cream covered in soybean meal that’s deep-fried in soybean oil and served in a waffle bowl that has also been deep-fried in soy oil. It is then topped with chocolate, caramel and whipped cream.

But wait, there’s more! Here are the four runner-ups…

Pepper Jack Sandwich on Sour Dough

(American Dairy Association)
Perfectly toasted sough dough bread with spicy pepper jack cheese from soy-feed dairy cows. ($3)

Honey Sweet Chili Garlic Soy-marinated Beef on a Stick

(Barto’s Catering and Concessions)
Chunks of top sirloin from soy-fed Indiana cattle are spiced up with a sweet chili-garlic marinade and served on a stick with a sesame-ginger soy sauce for dipping. ($2)

Bacon Flavored & Fabulous Pork Burger

(Indiana Pork Producers)
This pork patty (from soy-fed pigs) is topped with Indiana-made barbecue sauce from Shoup’s Country Foods in Frankfort. ($5)

Deep-fried Tofu with Dip

(Urick Concession)
Three generous cubes of tofu, rolled in a crisp coating, deep-fried in soy oil and served on a stick with a spicy dipping sauce. ($3)

2011 Indiana State Fair Android & iPhone App

Locations for these concessionaires, and others, can be found by iPhone and Android operating system smartphone users on the free Indiana State Fair application.

This year’s State Fair runs Aug. 5 – 21.