{"id":45911,"date":"2013-08-13T00:39:26","date_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/?p=45911"},"modified":"2013-08-13T00:39:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-13T07:39:27","slug":"doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Doing Over-Hard Time In A Shell: Chicken Runs Off With The Fair."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/2013\/08\/13\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/funny-food-78\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-45912\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-45912\" style=\"border: 3px solid black;\" alt=\"Funny Food 78\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/Funny-Food-78.jpg\" width=\"274\" height=\"184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The <a title=\"Semi-Related Report in the OC Register\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/2013\/07\/17\/oc-register-costa-mesa-cooking-contest-veteran-wins-with-candy\/\" target=\"_blank\">OC Fair<\/a> has left the county with a few FOOD stats to report &#8212;\u00a0After the last pickle was wrapped in Bacon, Corn Dog deep-fried, piglet petted, carnival plush won and concertgoer rocked, 1,374,579 Fair-goers had heeded the OC Fair\u2019s invitation to \u201cCome &amp; Get It\u201d in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>For the 2013 season, which ran from July 12-August 11, the <strong>OC Fair saw its second highest attendance<\/strong>. Plus the Pacific Amphitheatre saw its top-grossing summer concert series which included 11 sold-out concerts. Here are more fun facts about the 2013 OC Fair:<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Food at the 2013 OC Fair:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Chicken Charlie<\/strong> used 7,500 gallons of vegetable oil to fry up 24,000 Bacon-Wrapped Pickles, 100,000 Deep-Fried Oreos, and other wild concoctions like 25,000 balls of his top-selling Deep-Fried Cookie Dough.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Biggy\u2019s Meat Market<\/strong> sold nearly 2,000 Big Chics on a Stick and 4,500 The Big Ribs, and used 13,500 pounds of potatoes for orders of giant Curley Frys.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Bacon A-Fair<\/strong> used 20,000 pounds of bacon around turkey legs, inside chocolate, wrapped around cheesy bombs or sprinkled around chocolate peanut butter bananas.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tasti Chips<\/strong> used 23.75 tons of potatoes and 690 gallons of cheese sauce.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Juicy\u2019s <\/strong>sold more than 75,000 smoked turkey legs and used 300 gallons of ketchup and 250 gallons of mustard.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Source: Partial Press Release from the OC Fair &amp; Event Center and <a href=\"http:\/\/xaxor.com\/funny-pics\/22247-funny-food-creativity.html\" target=\"_blank\">Photo Credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The OC Fair has left the county with a few FOOD stats to report &#8212;\u00a0After the last pickle was wrapped in Bacon, Corn Dog deep-fried, piglet petted, carnival plush won and concertgoer rocked, 1,374,579 Fair-goers had heeded the OC Fair\u2019s invitation to \u201cCome &amp; Get It\u201d in 2013. For the 2013 season, which ran from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[174,3855,1426,460,1024,1,584,4573,1047],"tags":[579,4777,4355,2248,578,145],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Doing Over-Hard Time In A Shell: Chicken Runs Off With The Fair. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"FoodBlog\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/\",\"name\":\"Doing Over-Hard Time In A Shell: Chicken Runs Off With The Fair. - Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2013-08-13T07:39:26+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2013-08-13T07:39:27+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#\/schema\/person\/d13703add5ff9ca85c0ddc52a749afd2\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/doing-over-hard-time-in-a-shell-chicken-runs-off-with-the-fair\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Doing Over-Hard Time In A Shell: Chicken Runs Off With The Fair.\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/#website\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ineedtext.com\/FoodBlog\/\",\"name\":\"Nibbles of Tidbits, a Food Blog\",\"description\":\"The GOOD, the BAD &amp; 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