I’ve been eying the cheese sizzle for days, and since I’ve heard of the movie “Fried Green Tomatoes” but had never had the actual food, I was eager to try those as well.

So I got both wrapped up to go after the PRCA rodeo wrapped up Wednesday night at the fair.

A number of people have recommended the cheese sizzled, with the lady at the booth described as “genuine Wisconsin cheese, deep fried on a stick.” One cheese sizzle fan is “Brittany the Intern” from K96, who shared a fair booth with me for several days.

The cheese sizzle was awesome. Hot and cheesy, need I say more? I might have to go back for another of those.

Fried green tomatoes, left, and a deep-fried cheese sizzle from the Lorain County Fair. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

After the cheese sizzle, I tackled my fried green tomatoes, and, well, let’s just call the fried green tomatoes a victim of circumstance.

I would say the exact moment I bit into my second fried green tomato was the point at which I hit the breaking point with how much fried food I can pack into one week.

Honestly, the fried green tomatoes tasted great — actually a lot fresher than a lot of the other fried items. Unfortunately, after about the first one, I was struggling to choke them down. I’ve definitely hit my fried food ceiling.

So tell me what I should eat today! Is there anything at the fair that isn’t fried? Leave me a comment about what food I should try!

I made a major fair food mistake yesterday afternoon. I was running around like crazy, trying, yet again, to be three different places at once, and I knew it was eat now, or forget it.

So I hastily grabbed a slice of pizza from a stand near the grandstand. After all, how can you go wrong with pizza, right?

Unfortunately, this pizza was just wrong.

First, unable to choose between pepperoni and mushroom, I paid more for pepperoni AND mushroom. Big mistake. There were a few measly slices of pepperoni and even less mushrooms — two minuscule slivers.

Second, the pizza was cold. Now cold pizza is OK when you want cold pizza (like when you’re up raiding the fridge for a midnight snack). But when you know it’s the one piece of food that will cross your lips for many, many hours to come, heat is essential! Had I been home I would have definitely been nuking this.

Not to mention, I’d have either doused it in hot sauce or dipped it in ranch dressing if I’d had either handy.

I learned my fair food lesson. Take my time! It’s worth actually checking out how the food looks. And anything that’s sitting out (and not cooked in front of me) is probably a risk.

I was videoing draft horse and farm horse judging Wednesday afternoon when some fairgoers spotted my Chroniclet.com T-shirt and asked me to snap their picture.

Nicole Russo of Elyria, back left, Sarah Majoras of Elyria, back right, and Cassie Riddick of Grafton, front. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Nicole Russo of Elyria, Sarah Majoras of Elyria and Cassie Riddick of Grafton said they had just checked out the LifeFlight helicopter and eaten some fried veggies.

It was the first day at the fair for Nicole and Sarah, but Cassie had been there all week showing her rabbit, for which she received a blue ribbon.

Nicole and Sarah said they had just checked out the aqua massage and called it “well worth the $3.”

There plans from there? “To rest and relax for the derby this weekend!”

Not long after, I bumped into some friends of mine from Lorain, Tasha Andrewski and her sister Drema Logsdon, who were pulling Emily and Matthew Gose in a Wagon.

Tasha said they’d just grabbed some fair food, and Emily and Matthew were still munching on their cheeseburgers.

From there? They were off to “pet some animals,” they said.

Earlier in the day I had some special visitors at the booth The Chronicle-Telegram is sharing with WEOL-AM 930 and K96, our media partners.

Bonnie Wallace, mother of Chronicle Managing Editor Julie Wallace, stopped by with Mallory, Julie’s daughter.

Tasha Andrewski, back left, Drema Logsdon, back right, and Emily and Matthew Gose. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Mallory, daughter of Chronicle-Telegram Managing Editor Julie Wallace, came to the fair with her grandmother, Bonnie Wallace. (Photo by Rona Proudfoot, The Chronicle-Telegram.)

Fairgoers packed the grandstand Wednesday night at the Lorain County Fair to see live rodeo action.

The event was a stop on the Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association’s Heartland Prorodeo Series, which includes rodeos with purses of $30,000 or less, according to the PRCA Web site. The series was created “to encourage cowboys to enter rodeos of all sizes, and to give emerging stars a chance at some big money.”

There were some tense moment just minutes into the show when a bareback bronc rider went down hard. He had to be LifeFlighted to MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland. His condition was not yet available.

Fairgoers enjoyed more than two hours of rodeo action, which included bareback riding, steer wrestling, team roping, saddle bronc riding, tie-down roping and bull riding.

Contact Rona Proudfoot at rproudfoot@chroniclet.com, (440) 371-0792 or stop by to see her at the fair. She’s based at the WEOL booth and will be wandering the fairgrounds in a bright gold Chroniclet.com T-shirt.