What happened to the traditional State Fair Cuisine???? Where are the good old staples like corny dogs, turkey legs, corn on the cob, and funnel cakes topped with tons of powdered sugar and maybe strawberries. Where did things go wrong? Why did we decide we needed to take an already obese nation and plug their arteries with more layers of plaque?For the past few years I have followed the State Fair food with my students. What new concoction will win the contest in the creative fried food category? We always anticipate the announcement and then laugh at the entries and the winners. It is truly a joke...one that even entertained David Letterman last night as he added our illustrious home state with it prize winning food entry....."fried butter" to his top ten list. Among the list of 10 sarcastic remarks was "does a coupon for an angioplasty go with that?" I second that.
I think they started down hill when they fried twinkies ( a product which already has the longest shelf life of any packaged snack cake...like 12 years)! We moved on to fried ice cream, fried oreos, fried snickers, fried coke, chicken fried bacon, fried macaroni and cheese and so on. The list only gets longer and worse. I just have to stop with these.
I know it is only a month long exhibition of the worlds worse foods but so many people will eat this stuff out of curiosity, which will only send the vendors home to spend the next year with there kitchen dripping with grease, searching for the next heart attack on a stick.
By the way, the fried butter comes in garlic, cherry, and grape flavors. I think I will pass.
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