"Nancy2" <nancy-dooley@uiowa.edu> wrote in message
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> On Aug 21, 3:09 pm, "JoeSpareBedroom" <dishborea...@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> ....and other delights:
>>
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/us/21fat.html
>
> Speaking of state fairs, one enterprising vendor at the Iowa State
> Fair was selling beer on a stick. It was a hand-held device like one
> of those can-holders you can stick in the ground next to your lawn
> chair. Put a cup of beer ($7 I hear) in it, and you're good to go. I
> can't find the advantage, though....
>
> N.
>

Probably appeals to the same empty heads that kept the test tube drink fad
alive for a few years.