County fairs, with animals and cheap rides and fried dough? Meh. But what if you added... irony? That would make something worth having, in Denver! I mean, just to pick a paragraph of this story at random:

Years from now, when we're sitting in our old-people rocking chairs and fondly reminiscing about the memes of our youth, we'll be able to remember this weekend as the moment when Kool-Aid balls entered our national consciousness—shaping our eating habits for decades to come.