Over 50,000 at the Deschutes County Fair all come searching for their favorite fair food each day. They’ve waited a year and they can already taste the fried funnel cake or elephant ears.

Each year, along with the beloved staples are new treats and eats to excite eager taste buds.

Boba King of Utah will bring spam-on-a-stick and fried spam which has never been served before at the Deschutes County Fair, along with an assortment of flavored boba teas.

Mac Daddy’s of Washington will serve a macaroni and cheese base where customers can customize their dish with creative toppings to make macaroni nachos, curly fries, buffalo chicken and more.

“A lot of these (vendors) have been with us for 20 to 30 years. They’re a staple that people come to the fair looking for, like the guy who always makes the special kind of taco, or the one that has the burger that they love,” said Brandi Ebner, sales, marketing and event coordinator for the Deschutes County Fair. “Everybody knows where their favorite fair food is.”

Along with national food vendors are locals Central Oregonians might recognize, according to Ebner.

A few local vendors include The Corn Dog Company of Central Oregon who will come with corn dogs at the ready, Bend’s Suzy Q’s Sweet Things, which will have hand-dipped ice cream, mini donuts and handmade wood-fired pizzas.

Mountain Coffee Company of Redmond will offer huckleberry smoothies. Suzy’s Sunrise Kettle Corn of Bend will be selling different flavors of kettle corn and Tin Fillies Tea of Jacksonville, will be there with unique flavored ice teas, the most notable flavor being maple bourbon caramel.

Ebner encourages people to come hungry and expect a variety of foods with nearly 35 vendors.

“We work really hard to just try to make sure whatever fair food you’re looking for you can find. So, whether it be curly fries, funnel cakes, elephant ears, corn dogs, everybody’s got that food that you recognize when you go to a fair,” Ebner said. “We try to have a really diverse menu and offer a lot of different things that people would expect to find at a festival.”

The fair will be from July 31 to Aug. 4 at the Deschutes County Fair & Expo.