/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My equivalent is Hull Fair because I live in Hull, England.

It's run by travelling folk (or "pikeys") who show up every year for about 2-3 weeks in October, set up a massive fair on a piece of waste ground in the middle of the city and then, after dark from about 6pm until 11pm, they charge insane prices for food, rides, games etc.

Food on offer includes brandy snap, toffee apples, candy floss (cotton candy), roasted chestnuts, nougat, and your usual British food trucks (fish and chips, hot dogs, burgers etc).

The rides are pretty standard, your big wheel, dodgems, waltzers, that thing where you go in and it spins and you stick to the wall. The games are mostly cons. I played the air rifle shooting gallery, hit the same box of wine gums with a fiver wrapped around it three times and it didn't move. It was obviously nailed down, and you have to knock it off the shelf to win. Hook a Duck is good for the kids though, you win every time, though the prize is obviously worth less than the cost of playing.

If you've never played Hook a Duck, you get a pole with a hook on the end of it and have to use it to catch one of the many rubber ducks floating past on a circular kind of moat that runs in a ring around the guy in the middle with the prizes. Win and you can choose a prize. Typical prizes include a live goldfish in a bag of water, a teddy bear, a whoopee cushion and so on.

It's a pretty good fair.