Balko found this one. The official food of the Indiana state fair this year: deep fried bananas foster cheesecake on a stick. That's just evil, but damn it looks good. I love bananas foster and I love cheesecake. Put together and deep fried? I shudder at the thought.
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Oh, well that is just lovely. Lovely. Why didn't they go the whole hog and sprinkle heroin on it?
Posted by: Mary Talley | July 20, 2008 9:28 AM
Ah labor day must be coming up if newspapers are printing news stories about what is fried and on a stick at a state fair and bloggers are already faking "shocked!" impressions. The bottom line is one does not go to a state fair for healthy food.
Posted by: yoshi | July 20, 2008 9:42 AM
Mary, are you kidding? Heroin would just kill the sugar buzz.
Now if we can just get this approved as the new official eucharist, we might be free of the fundies in just a few years...
Posted by: Blaidd Drwg | July 20, 2008 10:00 AM
Why is the cheesecake being dipped in boiling used motor oil?
(If you get the impression I hate fried foods, we're not yet on the same planet. I loathe the stuff.)
Posted by: blf | July 20, 2008 10:11 AM
Heck, up here in Canada, I've seen Deep Fried Coca Cola at a fairground.
It's a funnel cake that uses coke in the batter, then is topped with coca cola syrup and powdered sugar.
I think faire food is the trojan horse virus of coronary disease. Like some culinary hackers ask themselves "What's the fastest way to kill people without injecting lard directly into their femoral artery?"
Posted by: Left_Wing_Fox | July 20, 2008 10:29 AM
I think I'll stick to the real thing. It's worth the coronary.
http://www.brennansneworleans.com/recipes.html
Posted by: celcus | July 20, 2008 11:16 AM
I love the fair...
I can look at all the prize livestock, check out the auctions, scrutinize the local high school arts and crafts entries, wander around and check out all the fine folks enjoying themselves, and then...
getting some non-descript glob of, uh, something that has had the living bejesus deep fried out of it, impaled on a stick, and served to me by some hick carny. And a cotton candy chaser.
Patton said it best: "I love it, God but I love it so."
Posted by: BobbyEarle | July 20, 2008 11:20 AM
Sounds yummy............ but the name "Bananas Foster" never fails to give me a mental picture of a '30s mobster. :-)
Posted by: themadlolscientist | July 20, 2008 1:50 PM
Why, why, why, must people ruin what is an amazing delicious desert by deep frying it? Bananas foster is by no means a healthy desert to begin with but it's just so perfect why would you need to deep fry it?
Also reading the article the 3rd place runner up sounds much more delicious: hickory-smoked beef kabobs.
Posted by: Noadi | July 20, 2008 1:51 PM
I guess I'll have to give them a try.
Posted by: daenku32 | July 20, 2008 4:54 PM
One of the secrets of life: everything is better when it's deep-fried and on a stick!
Posted by: JeffConn | July 20, 2008 6:17 PM
"Bananas Foster" never fails to give me a mental picture of a '30s mobster. :-)
Poor 'Bananas', he never got the respect he desreved, even though his crimes were every bit as heinous as some of the other gangsters: Catherine 'Serpent-nose' Richards, Lou 'Anal Leakage' Sheldon, and Mick 'The Hick' Peters. Foster complained that if he'd just picked a better nickname, things might have gone better on that fateful day...
Posted by: Blaidd Drwg | July 20, 2008 8:29 PM
welcome to indiana
Posted by: pacers fan | July 21, 2008 10:45 AM
Lighten up, people. The fair comes but once a year. All things in moderation--even your outrage.
Posted by: Immunologist | July 21, 2008 10:52 AM
I like fine cuisine as much as the next person, but little makes me happier than trying the latest fried wares at the state fair. I know it is unhealthy and all that, but give me a fried twinkie, or last year's fried latte (fried coffee ice cream) do go with the state fair corn dog, and I'm a happy camper.
Posted by: kangahoo | July 21, 2008 4:21 PM