Craving those Cotton Carnival fish sandwiches

A customer pays for his order at the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114’s hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, which also marked opening day of the 80th Annual Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

SIKESTON — A customer pays for his order at the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114’s hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, which also marked opening day of the 80th Annual Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel Rodeo grounds. For those looking for a taste of the Legion’s fish sandwiches and hamburgers, they’re served from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. and from about 5 p.m. to close through Friday and from about noon until close of the carnival on Saturday.

Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114 Commander Frankie Adams, left, works the hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, which also marked opening day of the 80th Annual Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

Customers stand in line at the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114’s hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24. (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

Customers stand in line at the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114’s hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24. (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

Customers stand in line at the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114’s hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24. (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114 Commander Frankie Adams waits on a customer in the hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, which also marked opening day of the 80th Annual Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)

A happy customer smiles for the camera after picking up his order from the Sikeston American Legion Henry Meldrum Post No. 114's hamburger and fish sandwich stand during the lunch hour Tuesday, Sept. 24, which also marked opening day of the 80th Annual Cotton Carnival at the Sikeston Jaycee Bootheel (Leonna Heuring/Standard Democrat)