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In Iowa, “Comic Con” is known as “The Iowa State Fair”

08/09/2016 9:30 pm by Torsten Adair

In Iowa, “Comic Con” is known as “The Iowa State Fair”

It’s listed in 1000 Places To Visit Before You Die (the international version). It offers a variety of gastronomic “gastrocities” and many local delights. Over a million people attend over eleven days in August. There’s the Midway, Grandstand, campgrounds (no hotelween here, nosiree!), and numerous displays, competitions, and other distractions. It is the Iowa State Fair, and […]

Filed Under: Conventions, Top News Tagged With: butter cow, food on a stick, Iowa State Fair

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