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"Find Your Happy" with 2025 OC Fair new and returning food favorites
The 2025 OC Fair is celebrating its 135th year, with opening day on Friday, July 18 and as anticipated, the over-the-top and standard fair food choices make their delightful appearances.
With so much festival fare to choose from, there is a way to go about a sampler of sorts, with the $5 Taste of the Fair program. This is offered before 4 p.m., serving smaller portions for guests to explore the diverse menus.
For the decadent, daring diner, choices range from frog legs and bacon cotton candy on a stick, to lobster mac and cheese and a Krispy Kreme triple decker cheeseburger. Fried Twinkies, ice cream nachos and a pineapple whip with Fruity Pebbles are just some of the sweet offerings.
The lists below are just some of what's available to fairgoers.
New food at the OC Fair
Lighter Fair food and plant-based options
Returning Fair favorites
This year's theme is "Find Your Happy" and OC Fair Board Chair Nick Kovacevich, said everyone from children to adults can be entertained at the fair.
"Kids love to ride the rides, but we as adults have plenty of entertainment too. We've got so many different shows, concerts. We've got so many different varieties of food, and then we've got all the animal stuff, cause that's the roots of the fairground. We've got the livestock area, the petting zoo, we've got llamas walking around, there's pig races, literally so many things," Kovacevich said.
The OC Fair runs through August 17 and is open Wednesday through Sunday, with tickets ranging in price from $13 to $15, and $9 for children and seniors.
Hours are 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Wednesday, Thursday, and Sunday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday.
The $60 Every Day Passport gives fairgoers access to any or all 23 days of the OC Fair.
