{"id":461297,"date":"2026-10-09T15:52:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461297\/"},"modified":"2026-10-09T15:52:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-09T15:52:13","slug":"the-love-story-behind-texas-state-fair-bestselling-corn-dog-stand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/461297\/","title":{"rendered":"The love story behind Texas&#8217; State Fair bestselling corn dog stand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Fletchers Corny Dogs, run by Beck and William Fletcher, are a bestseller at the State Fair of Texas. For the couple, the fair is also where their love story began as young kids. &#8220;I started working on the counter when I was 11 years old. And he was working out at Big Tex, and I was working at another stand,&#8221; Beck told NewsNation&#8217;s Xavier Walton. &#8220;We would run the Midway together, ride rides together, have lunch together. And one year he goes why don&#8217;t you just go out with me. And I said no.&#8221; The now-successful stand has been a part of the fair for 84 years, but when it first opened, business was so bad the Fletchers had to give away free samples.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Fletchers Corny Dogs, run by Beck and William Fletcher, are a bestseller at the State Fair of Texas.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":461298,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-461297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=461297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461297\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/461298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=461297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}