138059 Mon Oct 18 17:28:52 -0700 2004 2 11 South 0 739552 sometimes food produced for the masses can be good. went to the fair on sunday with a fellow hound to sniff out the good eats. and we found them. and i paid the consequences of my gluttony, but it was worth it. here's how it went down: walk in, grab a few free hushpuppies, walk through a model cornmeal production plant, walk out to find some killer apple cider. head towards the strip, and grab a fried bologna sammich at friend's suggestion. never had heard of one, so i went for the experience. not bad, would've been better if made to order. walk a few yards, see some folks with huge amounts of steak falling out of a bun and ear-to-ear sloppy grins. split a steak sammy. hey, gotta be efficient and don't want to burn out too fast. i take a breather, friend goes for the alligator sausage on a stick. these aren't really much different from an andouille if you ask me. saw some crawfish pie which looked dry, so i passed. friend was one up on me and i needed to get back in the game, so i started hunting down some 'cue, but once in line i started to worry about the quality. can't waste *any* bites here. panic, and get out of the line, head straight to the source of the *jumbo* turkey legs. fantabulous. this was the pinnacle for me. crispy skin, juicy all the way to the interior, and bursting of flavor. they were smoked. the leg required some work, but i still had to interrupt it with what i had been looking for first thing in the morning to cure my god-awful hangover - country ham biscuit. sunrise-size biscuits and a load of ham which almost gave me a 3rd degree salt burn. i had to sacrifice this one to the dumpster-gods to get back at the turkey leg. i only left 2 bites of it though, so gimme a break. fresh lemonade to do something about the salt burn. fried twinkie. 'nuff said. ice cream with hot sauce on it. interesting. at this point i starting hallucinating. everything became a jumbo turkey leg. i was concerned for my wellbeing as well as the little childrens. i force myself to leave and, on the way out, see just about everybody carrying a turkey leg in hand (might've been hallucinations). damn myself for not getting one to-go. chest-pains, not of the GERD-type, for several hours. Mon Oct 18 17:28:52 -0700 2004 0 Nab 1 739584 Them turkey legs are mighty good. I smoke my own in my Weber bullet smoker for a couple/three hours, after a short brine (including some Morton's Tender Quick, which is what one of the vendors at a race told me he uses for his turkey legs). Sometimes if I have space when doing ribs, I will throw on a few legs at the same time. Mine come out as good as the ones I remember from the fair and other places I have had them. Thanks for your report! Tue Oct 19 12:06:34 -0700 2004 739552 0 PenskeFan 1 739790 Thanks for the report, I haven't lived in Raleigh in ten years - and it brought me right back to the thing I loved best about the NCSF...the food! Fri Oct 29 10:46:58 -0700 2004 739552 0 Tela T.