Quiet Visit To The Puyallup Fair Exhibits

Because I had checked the lists of Exhibits Wednesday before I set out Thursday morning to visit the Puyallup Fair, I got to the Cooking Demonstration by Kathleen Merryman, which was listed as a News Tribune event although the columnist has left The News Tribune.


Kathleen Merryman intoned in a flourish that today the audience would be eating the demonstration. I had to recall another time when I viewed Kathleen Merryman at the pie judging, in which the large audience was forced to watch four judges as they ate pie for what seemed over an hour. I had a nice portion of the earliest dish, Mexican PopOver – was it one cup of flour with two cups of milk and two eggs? With cheese on it, then salsa. They started the Mexican PopOver on the stove top, then it went into the oven while Ms Merryman, her daughter on a visit from Hawaii, and her assistant friend in a blue apron clowned around.

Mexican PopOver / Rissotto / Eggplant / Corn with Milk and Cheese / Bread Pudding with Nectarines

My schedule checking got me to the Expo Building from the Draft Horse Demo. Interesting to me that for a half hour I was alone on my side of the arena. At last more audience started to arrive. I think the approach to Gate 6 was harder to recognize because of a car display. When I was leaving Gate 7 a truck larger than I had ever seen blocked my exit, it was moving slightly. This felt so dischordant. As I made my way out, I saw three very large trucks, they seemed to be trucks that carried cars from the car display.

An Almond Roca Exhibit at the History Museum provided a free Almond Roca Sample earlier and before that a News Tribune stand provided a free paper. I also got a granola bar, a piece of candy, a bracelet, a smootie sample, and dip samples with pretzel sticks.  The counter worker liked my Hillary Supporters for Obama Biden pin, so there might have been an extra pretzel stick there.

I had watched a Four H riders exhibit in the arena and had walked through some 4 H Horses and beautiful Poultry in the barns.  When I visited the Rainforest Exhibit the very beautiful animals I had never seen before were rested, they seemed so sensitive and ready to meet a new day. It was just after ten o’clock. I walked past the New Construction on Roller Coaster and to the Sky Ride It was brought to Puyallup after the 1962 World’s Fair, so this year was its 50th anniversary. I wish to include two of my own snapshots from my childhood camera which include the World’s Fair Sky Ride.