Brace yourselves (and your belts). The Big E 2025 is almost upon us.

Behind the steel gates of high-calorie Morder lie a vast army of deep-fried monstrosities and pickles incorporated in places they don’t belong.

A day may come when the courage of diet-breakers fail, when they forsake their fried Oreos and break all bonds of cream puffs .

But it is not this month. This is September, and the fairgrounds of West Springfield will become a battlefield where only the bravest (and foolish) among us will confront the mightiest and craziest foods The Big E can offer.

Why do we do this? Because it’s awesome and we get to tell stories about the wild things we ate.

With just one day until The Big E opens, here are the 23 foods I’m most excited to eat at the fair this year (plus one extra f

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