Like many fairgoers, every time I go to the State Fair of Texas, I get a Fletcher’s corny dog. It’s a beeline situation: you do not pass go, you do not collect two hundred giant stuffed animals from the midway– you go straight to the stand in front of Big Tex. Sure, there’s a longer line there. And it’s your job to respectfully wait in that line for the best memory-stamping food moment you’ll have all year.
You’re eating a corny dog with the mustard squirted onto it just right, in front of a giant dude in a cowboy hat whose two-story tall Dickies are fluttering in the deep-fried wind. His expression seems to say “Did you see Real Housewives of Dallas last week? Bow at me? That’s not even a thing, LeeAnne.” He stands frozen in an “I’m not really sure why we do all this, either” pose on top of a celebrated history of leftover food coupons and greasy hangovers. And you love it. You drink it in with every fried fiber of your being.
You have long dreamt of the day when Fletcher’s would be available to the masses every day of the year. When you could get a burn-your-mouth-off freshly-fried Fletcher’s corny dog handed to you in a month that didn’t end in “-ber.”
Well, my Fletcher’s-loving friends, your prayers have been partly answered: Fletcher’s has announced on its Facebook page that June 10 and June 11, it will serve up its “freshly hand dipped” corny dogs on the midway during the 80th Anniversary celebration of the State Fair of Texas.
And I can’t help but think that if they’re opening up in June, this might be the gateway to a world with constant Fletcher’s-ing that we’ve (I’ve) all (pretty much just me, probably) been waiting for.
Go forth and Fletcher’s your summer, Dallas.
Hours Fletcher’s Corny Dogs will be in glorious, unseasonable operation at their permanent location on the midway at the State Fair of Texas: June 10th from 5 p.m. until 10 p.m. and June 11th from 10 a.m. until 10 p.m.
