Mary Ellen Fletcher

Is All Fair in Fair Fare? And Other Corny Money-Making Topics.
Although a number of current corn dog vendors lay claim to the invention or popularization of the corn dog, Carl and Neil Fletcher introduced their "corny dogs" at the Texas State Fair sometime between 1938 and 1942, and the little-changed dogs are now billed as "The Original."

Some of the valuable principles you will learn:

• The importance of claiming to be the original
  
• What fun has to do with it
  
• How to keep condiment supply lines open and flowing
  
• Techniques for overcoming barriers of "good taste"
  
• The value of sticking with it