Thanks to The Des Moines Register columnist Courtney Crowder for digging into some of Iowa's most explosive history. She writes: "If you think the newest food on a stick is the craziest attention-grabbing stunt the Iowa State Fair has ever pulled — think again. Back in the 1930s, deep in the Depression Era and way before safety regulations, fair employees had to stage bigger and bigger attractions to get people with less and less money in the gates. Thus, the great grandstand spectacle was born.
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