growing up in minnesota means growing up with the minnesota state fair which is still, i believe, the largest state fair in the country, and which has evolved into a foodie experience involving avant garde cuisine served on a stick. back when i was a kid, the state fair meant walking the midway and getting nauseous on unsafe carnival rides, then seeing farm animals, then drinking fresh milk in the dairy barn, then eating cotton candy, and finally, eating pronto pups, fried and battered hot dogs that were the original food on a stick. that is a very long way of saying how much these cattails remind me of pronto pups.

september cattails

saint paul, minnesota