Balloons, Brides, and Butter

Apparently attendance at the CNE is lower and lower each year, but there were still lots of people there, even with the rainy weather. And even though I wasn't able to get a large size monkey in a banana this year, it was still fun to ride the ferris wheel and wander through the food building to end off the summer.

There were a lot of exhibits as well, including giant sand sculptures, a vegetable competition (with tables of potatoes and carrots on display with ribbons on most of them. They all looked the same), and an exhibit called "Love Lust and Longing at the CNE" featuring photos and relics (with a wall for people to share their stories) of couples at the Ex since the late 1800s (people really dressed up back then for the Ex, big hats and dresses and everything!).

So, did we try the butter?? Well, we weren't sure if we were up to the challenge, but apparently we think we have iron stomachs and aren't phased by even the unhealthiest of gastronomical experiments. 

Deep fried butter! $5 for 4, deep fried in batter and drizzled with sugary sauces. We were too curious not to at least try. The line up was too long and we were short on time, but a nice man donated one to us, and we split it four ways.

The salted butter was melted and created a hollow pocket with a bit of custardy-ness inside the fried dough. I can't say it wasn't tasty, the saltiness of the butter was good. However, maybe because I knew it was butter, I could not have eaten more than 1/4 of one. Already I felt like I had eaten a whole tray of cookies.

Worth it at least once though!

In other news, did anyone know the CNE was such a wedding hotspot?

Who knew?

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