Here's a picture from the Bicentennial Pancake Breakfast held during the 1976 Sauerkraut Days celebration. I have no idea who this guy is, I just like his look (I do know that the kid in the background behind the lady's hair who looks like Beaver's friend Larry Mondello is now the editor of the Ackley World Journal, in case you were wondering whatever became of him). Food is a big part of any festival or fair, and in addition to free kraut and wieners in Victory Park on one of the afternoons of Sauerkraut Days, fried dough (similar to yet different from a funnel cake) and the beefburgers (sort of in-between a Sloppy Joe and a Maid-Rite/loose meat sandwich) at the Chamber of Commerce stand uptown were the two favorites in my hometown. At the Loris Bog-Off in South Carolina the big draw is a dish I've never heard of before, though it sounds tasty, chicken bog. At Whiting, Indiana's Pierogi Fest, they have 15 different pierogi vendors as well as Pieroguettes in 12 different flavors (Miss Mushroom, Miss Plum, Miss Cheese, Miss Potato, Miss Sauerkraut, Miss Chicken, Miss Cabbage, Miss Cow/Beef, Miss Apricot, Miss Berry Jr., Miss Potato, and Miss Chick) AND a Polka Parade featuring Pierogi pups! The Bigfoot Jamboree in Happy Camp, California does not have bbq babyback bigfeet to snack on, as one might hope, but they do have something else I'd never heard of, Indian tacos. At Montgomery, Minnesota's Kolacky Days the celebrated foodstuff is the kolacky (which I have, in fact, heard of, sorta a czech danish - check out the 1998-9 Kolacky Royalty holding that year's biggest kolacky at the bottom of this page). And I'm not sure what they eat down at Toad Suck Daze in Conway, Arkansas, but with performances by Dennis De Young and the Music of Styx and something called Toad Suck Superstar, it could be fresh-squeezed toad-ade with a side of deep-fried suck and I'd still want to attend.