They Don’t Sell Corn Dogs at Royal Ascot

You can’t find a corn dog at Royal Ascot. England’s preeminent thoroughbred event is nothing like the horse races I grew up around in Georgia. Order a Diet Coke and get lectured on social graces by a guy who is visibly inebriated at 10 a.m. Ask if they have chicken tenders instead of Peking duck salad and it’s as if you picked up after your dog with a Union Jack. Pomp and circumstance fuel the whole affair. For a country that delights in comparing itself to us gauche Americans, there sure are a lot of Rolls-Royces and Range Rovers queued… Read Full Article