It's no accident that the carnival row at state fairs has a guess-your-weight booth, because just a few rows over are some of the most artery-clogging, ingenious uses of a deep fat fryer you'll ever see.
Delish has put together a list of the Top Ten Most Unusual State Fair Foods -- which range from the tame idea of chicken fried bacon to the questionably named Hot Beef Sundae.
The Indiana State Fair kicks off on August 7, and it's included for pizza cones -- think ice cream cones, except all the ingredients are pizza toppings and the cone is made of pizza dough. For a time before it closed last year, you could have sampled pizza cones at a Kornet Pizza stand -- the first in the United States -- at the Oak Park Mall. But perhaps some food items are best left to state fairs.
Although Delish had some honorable choices, it seemed to stay on the
main concourse, not realizing that the weirdest fair foods are often
food in the most poorly lit areas. Consider the Kookie Cookie
-- a chicken sandwich from the San Diego County Fair that was anything but
ordinary: A fried chicken breast between two oatmeal raisin cookies
covered in cream cheese and strawberry jam.
But
all of these foods are merely paying homage to the original fried fair
food -- the corn dog. Carl and Neil Fletcher are credited with
popularizing the corn-battered hot dogs, known then as "corny dogs," at the 1942 Texas State Fair.
If you've been avoiding the fryolator this summer, there's still time to get out-of-shape. The Missouri State Fair doesn't get under way until August 13, while the Kansas State Fair is set for September 11.
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I attended the Minnesota State Fair in 2006, and the food is truly as ridiculous as the video would indicate. The NPR station broadcasts from the fair and commissions a new song about the food every year.
However, I have to say: WTF is dude eating at 1:19? That's either an unfortunate application of ketchup, or someone's running an adult-toy-on-a-stick booth.
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