BIG TEX   Dallas, Texas would never want to be the Capital of Kitsch, yet where else on the planet can you get deep-fried bubble gum?  This and other delicacies are to be had at the glorious (to the locals) State Fair of Texas, a beloved institution that sucks in 2,500,000 visitors a year, a crowd that has been described, perhaps cruelly, as containing “fifty kinds of Bubba.” Probably the fair’s most visited attractions was Big Tex: a fifty-two foot […]

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