The food selection at this year’s Carolina Classic Fair is more diverse – and possibly tastier – than ever, thanks in large part to the continued addition of more food trucks and other mobile businesses.

The fair, which runs Oct. 3 through Oct. 12, continues to add more food trucks and other mobile businesses – many of them local. Those mobile businesses essentially have filled the void left by the gradual reduction in food booths run by church groups and civic clubs – typically in the brick buildings in the center of the fairgrounds.

Thankfully, there still are a handful of such local groups turning out such favorite foods as pinto beans, Moravian chicken pie, fish plates, and chicken and dumplings. But the influx of food trucks has led to a greater variety of food, especially ethnic fa

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