Fried Everything

Not only are there lots of interesting things to learn at the fair focusing on agriculture, but there are a lot of interesting foods to experience. Such as:

Pork Butt on a Stick or Smoked Turkey legs. 

Lots of things are either on a stick or fried, ad sometimes both.  This being Kentucky, there had to be some Deep Fried Derby Pie-- think pecan pie with bourbon and chocolate.  We tasted this, after watching the process of bits of pie being dipped into batter and then dropped into a deep fryer.  Once the pieces are cooked, they are sprinkled with powdered sugar and then drizzled with raspberry sauce.   And Deep Fiend Kool Aide is basically funnel cake batter combined with powder Kool Aide, so the funnel cake comes out red and is sprinkled with more Kool Aide sugar crystals. 

 

 

We probably didn't need the raspberry sauce--it was already sweet enough without-- and I will admit that it wasn't bad.  But it wasn't something that I will seek out again.

This also being the home of Girl Scout cookies, we had to try a basket of assorted Deep Fried Girl Scout Cookies: tag-alongs (peanut butter), samoas (the coconut-caramel ones), and thin mints.   A basket has six cookies, two of each variety.  Darren, Will, Cousin Diane, and I tried them.  The peanut butter tag-a-longs were pretty tasty.  The thin mints were weird. Mint is a not a flavor enhanced by frying.  The samoas were odd because the coconut shavings were crunchy.

But the extreme thing on offer at the fair was the Krispy Kreme booth offering chicken breast sandwich on raspberry-filled powdered doughnuts or a hamburger between two glazed doughnuts.  Gross.  There was about an hour long wait for these monstrosity of sandwiches and even there was even a display sandwich.