Fair Food
I recently went to the CNE where they are famous for Tiny Tim Donuts (expensive and only good fresh and hot, fyi).
This year they were also trying out chocolate coated bacon. Unfortunately I couldn't find it, but saw a news article about and it's actually bacon with chocolate sauce.
What I'm trying to get at here is what interesting fair food have you eaten this year? Do you have a favorite you have to have every year?
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9 Comments:
I love fairs - the best ones are in the fall. The cold in the air makes all those hot treats taste even better.
Up here in New England we don't get too much crazy fair food. Pretty standard - pizza, sausage and peppers, fries, nachos. Last year was the first time I saw a fried oreo. My favorite is good old fried dough, or whatever they call it in your region. Brushed with butter and topped with lots of sugar - powdered and cinnamon. I also must get a caramel apple which I usually eat for breakfast the next day.
eeels at 8:55PM on 09/02/09
Being the mishmash of different regions that Florida is, our fairs have fried dough, elephant ears, and funnel cake, all offered somewhere along the length of one midway. Of the three, I like funnel cake the best.
If there is someone spinning fresh cotton candy, not the pre-made bagged stuff, I need to get that on a paper cone stick.
Candy apples, not caramel for me. With the crushed peanuts please.
And if turkey legs and/or grilled corn is offered, that's dinner!
Gator Pam at 9:24PM on 09/02/09
Fried pickles
Elephant ears AND funnel cakes
Blooming onions (only Vidalia onions here in Georgia, please!)
Lemon shake-ups
Sausages with peppers
Caramel apples
Just-popped kettle corn (I love the warm, sweet/salty crunchiness)
Definitely the just-spun cotton candy, @Gator Pam!
Okay, who's up for the roller coaster now?? I love fairs!!!
Editmom at 10:52PM on 09/02/09
I am sooo jealous of you!! I don't get to go to the California State Fair this year cause school starts early this year =[ butttt absolutely looove it! well the food at least, the fair is sooorta fun haha
Blooomin' Onions
Fries - the kind that looks like spaghetti.. omggg
Funnel Cakes
Corn with hellla butter
Frozen lemonade
ICE CREAM
we walk for like hours to round up the food and then we devour it.
disneydreamscometrue at 2:50AM on 09/03/09
Our fair is in progress, and I think today is the day I'm going. I love the smell of greasy fair food, but the two things I actually get are black raspberry ice cream made from the cows that have to get milked at the fair every morning, and cotton candy made from maple sugar at the Vermont maple barn.
lemonfair at 7:42AM on 09/03/09
There are some amazing fairs down here in Georgia, including the Cotton Pickin' Fair in Gay, where I enjoyed:
boiled peanuts ("bolled" -- that's how they say it down here)
fresh, hot, fried pork rinds (OMG, I ate a whole bag)
fried green tomatoes
fried peach pies
pulled BBQ pork sandwich and hoppin' john
SOOOO GOOOOD.
Then we've got the Renaissance Faire, where I drank Mead and had fried macaroni and cheese on a stick. It was this skewer of bite-sized chunks of perfectly battered cubes of mac n' cheese -- you bit into them and they were oozy and hot.
juliebugsmama at 10:13AM on 09/03/09
Our favorite at the CNE was the canadian bacon sandwiches. That was many years ago, do that still exist?
dmcavanagh at 11:52AM on 09/03/09
This is the first time in many years that I'm not going to the New York State Fair in Syracuse. The food I always look forward to there is: the baked potato; pizza fritte, grilled corn; and loads of free sample tastes of treats such as fudge, cheese, yoghurt, wine sorbet. I can't count the many people who are asking me if I'm going to the Fair this year. I think I'll be sorry I didn't go. It's a nice Amtrak train ride from Penn Station to Syracuse. I don't know why this Fair isn't more widely promoted; it's really great!
SavtaShayna at 2:54PM on 09/03/09
I love the grilled corn and can't get enough of it. I usually eat so many of them that there is no room for anything else. But the other stuff that I like is;
Kettle corn.
Curly fries.
Onion burgers.
Raspberry scones
Strawberry shortcake
Vietnamese BBQ pork on a stick with chow mein style noodles.
Gyros.
Calzones.
Flaming hot chicken wings.
Sno cones.
Free samples.
The beer garden.
Anything Mexican.
Grilled alligator on a stick.
But I still love that corn lol.
pjracz10 at 6:56PM on 09/05/09