Eating hot, fried dough in the sweltering does not seem naturally appealing. Still, the funnel cake manages to attract fans all summer long.

I’m totally going to the Montgomery County Agricultural Fair on Saturday. It’s an excellent fair, with genuinely fun, scary rides, a demolition derby, pig races, the full Ag competition thing ranging from chickens to rabbits to steer, and all the delicious, fattening fair food you could hope for. So I was deeply disturbed to run across the news this morning that the fair is subject to the county’s trans fat ban, which passed last year…