I'll have the deep fried Big Tex on a stick...

9/22/200611:22:15 AM Link |  | Add comment

Texas Goings-On

New food items were announced for the Texas State Fair and I can hear the arteries clogging from here. 

Here are just a few of the items, colorful adjectives removed:

Deep Fried Cosmopolitan - Deep fried pastry filled with cheesecake and topped with a cranberry glaze and lime wedge.  Served on a stick.

Donkey Tails - All-beef franks, slit on one side and stuffed with sharp cheddar cheese, wrapped in a flour tortilla and deep fried.  Served with mustard, chili or Ruth's salsa.

Fernie's Fried Choco-rito - A flour torilla stuffed with marshmallows, coconut, candy bar pieces, caramel morsels and cinnamon, dipped in pancake batter and deep fried.  Topped with honey and whipped cream.

Fried Avocados - Battered and deep fried chunks of avocado. 

Fried Coke - Spheres of Coca-Cola flavored batter deep fried, drizzled with Coke fountain syrup and topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry.

Basically at the State Fair of Texas the food is either (1) Deep Fried, (2) On a Stick, or (3) In a Bag.  Sometimes you can even hit two out of the three - say Deep Fried On a Stick.  Someday the pinnacle of State Fair food will be reached when someone comes up with what would be the culinary king of the State Fair - an edible bag.  Then you could actually have something stuffed in the bag, deep fried AND put it on a stick.