Fair Food
Sep10
The Texas State Fair, here in Dallas, is a place where you will be forced to try new foods. All of them fried and on a stick. No, really, the food is either fried or made into beer.
I was thin when I moved to Texas.
The Texas State Fair, here in Dallas, is a place where you will be forced to try new foods. All of them fried and on a stick. No, really, the food is either fried or made into beer.
I was thin when I moved to Texas.
Three words: “Deep fried turducken.” If it doesn’t exist, it should.
Isn’t turducken deep-fried by default?
What about deep-friedbeer-battered turbriskefil?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lHRFAM0ZvCM
Trust me, it’s relevant.
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I created my “Destiny” ( new first person shooter video game) character Monday night. Just noticed my avatar’s hair style is similar, and I am blind in the same eye.
WHOLE turkey? You’re making that up, right? Please tell me they don’t really have that! (I have lived my entire life in the NorthEast, so I’m not sure if you’re pulling my leg here or not! I thought deep-fried corn on the cob couldn’t exist (much less be DELICIOUS!!) until a trip to GA 15 years ago.)
In Texas? It’s possible. Maybe not on a stick, but they might have it on a board.
I grew up in Dallas. There was a school holiday every year so children could attend the State Fair.
I got really excited a few years ago when we went to the Houston Rodeo. My favorite candy bar is Milky Way, and they had them deep-fried. I was sorely disappointed in it. It couldn’t retain it’s shape (which made it hard to eat), and just wasn’t as good as I built it up in my head to be. The deep-fried Oreos, however, were fucking amazing.
It’s hard to do at a fair because to flash fry a candy bar it literally has to be frozen solid. Normal freezer isn’t really cold enough. Guys here at my job (I work with a bunch of food scientists) fry up snickers and 3 musketeers bars. To keep the shape they actually keep everything frozen with dry ice. Tried Liquid nitrogen one time but found that actually doesn’t allow the center to defrost enough lol.
As soon as you’re discussing the merits of dry ice vs. liquid nitrogen for cooking, I’m completely on-board.
Do you know what this means? I can try deep-frying candy bars at home! Thank you!
No, really. I might try it outside on the patio!
I’m thinking of starting a pool on what the newest, furthest-out-there fried offering will be at the HLSR. I think the most bizarre so far has been fried Coke/Dr. Pepper. Yep.
The new thing I saw this year: Deep fried Coke. (I suppose they’d do Dr. Pepper down there…)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fried_Coke
It’s Texas, it’s still called coke even if it’s Dr Pepper.
To put the term ‘coke’ in its proper use for the rest of the country-
“What kind of coke y’all want” 😉
Mick: I can’t eat this whole thing.
Alex: That’s not what you said last night…!
A whole turkey? Must be the only way they could get rid of the white meat. Not to mention the stuffing. (Yuck…)
Oh my. I SOOO want to eat the fried baked potatoe and the fried Sriacha and the Blue Bonnet.
Fried, or made into beer, or actually fried beer.
http://www.wikihow.com/Cook-Deep-Fried-Beer
One of the best things I ever had at a fair was an artichoke packed with mozzarella, and then deep fried. They put it in a bowl and spoon spicy marinara over it. Oh my god.
Oddly, The Minnesota State Fair is roughly the same for new foods… but with the addition of an all you can drink milk shack, and a place that sells cookies by the bucketful. Within a very short distance of eachother. <3
Rookie mistake I made years ago at the HLSR: eating a Turkey leg BEFORE we had walked the entire exhibit/livestock area. Man, that was a struggle. Tryptophan is strong stuff.
Reading the comments here , I have decided that should I ever be in Texas (from the Uk here) I would probably die of a heart attack due to the food. So have banned myself from visiting Texas. LOL