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Guess How Many Pounds of Bacon You All Ate at the O.C. Fair
Does it help if we told you the annual attraction saw 1.3 million visitors during its 23-day run? The fair by the numbers.
The Orange County Fair drew 1.3 million visitors for its 23-day run that concluded Sunday, about the same as last year, the second highest since the annual attraction started in 1890, organizers announced today.
Other interesting statistics from this year’s fair include 19 piglets born at the Centennial Farm and the use of 40,000 pounds of vegetable oil for deep-fried Doritos, Oreos, frog legs and other snacks.
Fairgoers ate 20,000 pounds of bacon, including 30,000 deep-fried, bacon-wrapped Jack Daniel’s churros, which required 99 bottles of 1.75-liter bottles of the whiskey, fair officials said.
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More than 34,800 glasses were served at the Wine Courtyard
This year’s fair was the last for OC Fair CEO Doug Lofstrom, a retired fair executive who took over for the last CEO, who took a new job in April 2013. Fair board members plan to hire a new CEO by year’s end.
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