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State Fair Food Quiz

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by Slashfood Editor, Posted Sep 1st 2009 @ 1:34PM

This state fair food quiz will test you on all your favorites, like cotton candy, fried twinkies, corn dogs, funnel cake and more.

State Fair Trivia

At its public debut at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, cotton candy was sold as:

  • Fairy Floss
  • Cotton Fluff
  • Candy Cloud
  • Sugar Pillow

Which one of these deep-fried fair treats uses unleavened batter?

  • Fried dough
  • Funnel cake
  • Elephant ear
  • Zeppole

In the 1700s, colonial kettle corn was originally sweetened with:

  • Cane sugar
  • Honey & molasses
  • Corn syrup
  • Maple syrup

'Bout how many grams of delicious, batter-dipped fat are in a deep-fried Twinkie?

  • 18
  • 26
  • 34
  • 40

Springfield, Ill.'s Cozy Dog Drive-In introduced this item as the original corn dog handle:

  • Popsicle stick
  • Chopstick
  • Toothpick
  • Cocktail fork

Which state's fair recently became the first to ban trans-fat cooking oils?

  • Indiana
  • California
  • New York
  • Maryland

Snow Cone King Sammie Bert introduced his handmade shaved ice concoction at the Texas State Fair in:

  • 1903
  • 1919
  • 1922
  • 1926

Saltwater taffy was invented at this tourist hotspot during the 1880s:

  • Ocean City, Md.
  • Myrtle Beach, S.C.
  • Long Beach, Calif.
  • Atlantic City, N.J.

If you're gobbling down hot-dish-on-a-stick, you're most likely at the fair in the great state of:

  • Wisconsin
  • Minnesota
  • Iowa
  • Nebraska

Abel Gonzales Jr. attracted media attention in 2006 when he deep-fried this delicacy for the State Fair of Texas:

  • Coca-Cola
  • Mayonnaise
  • Kool-Aid pickles
  • Fudgesicle

What is a Donkey Tail?

  • A cheese-filled sausage wrapped in a tortilla, deep-fried
  • Deep-fried beef jerky
  • A deep-fried donkey tail on a stick
  • A hot dog rolled in bacon, deep fried

Butter sculptures are a famous staple of state fairs. What is their origin?

  • They were edible centerpieces to be eaten with bread and crackers
  • State fair artists used butter because it was cheaper than clay
  • A carnie made a sculpture out of leftover butter, and a tradition was born
  • The sculptures helped to publicize the dairy industry

What is the architecture of Spaghetti and Meatballs on a Stick?

  • Meatballs are pierced with uncooked spaghetti then deep fried
  • Spaghetti strands are rolled into a meatball then fried
  • Meatballs are wrapped in spaghetti then fried
  • Spaghetti and meatballs are piled on a piece of garlic bread, then fried

What is a Cool Dog?

  • A frozen hot dog eaten like a popsicle
  • Cold hush puppies on a stick
  • A sponge cake "bun" filled with ice cream and toppings
  • A popsicle with a Twinkie "bun"

At the 2007 Texas state fair, Mike Levy introduced which deep fried drink?

  • Latte
  • Coke
  • Cosmopolitan
  • Milkshake

What is a Koolickle?

  • Pickle juice popsicles
  • Pickles topped with ice cream
  • Kool-Aid brined pickles
  • Popsicles made from Kool-Aid

According to surveys, food is the primary reason people visit state fairs.

  • True
  • False

What is a walking taco?

  • A taco filled with frogs legs
  • Taco fillings poured into a bag of chips
  • A deep-fried taco with fillings that can't fall out
  • A taco filled with pigs' feet

"Fair" is derived from the Latin word for "food".

  • True
  • False

What is a "Baltimore Lemon Stick"?

  • An oversized lemon sugar stick lollipop
  • A lemon with a peppermint stick stuck in it
  • Wedges of lemon on a stick, rolled in sugar
  • A skewer used to hold a lemon, so it can be eaten like a corn on the cob

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Culinary Degradation, Part III - Deep Fried Horrors

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by Bruce Watson, Posted Mar 3rd 2009 @ 11:30AM

A couple of months ago, I wrote a post in which I tried to touch bottom in the pantheon of disturbing cuisine. While I stopped short of nightmarishly horrifying food, like rotten cheese and duck embryos, I explored what I imagined were the worst fried foods imaginable.

In retrospect, I was incredibly naive.

At the end of the post, I asked my readers to submit their own choices for worst possible food, promising to do a little more research and write longer pieces about them. I got a fair bit of responses, which led to a fun post about beer floats. However, Guinness and vanilla ice cream only represented the tip of the iceberg, so to speak, and it seemed inevitable that I would return to further explore the wonders that make up the culinary wasteland.

Many of my readers shared tales about their favorite fried food joints. Museum Mouse, for example, turned me on to the joys of Scottish fried cuisine. Having had my fair share of haggis and cock-a-leekie soup, I thought that I had experienced everything that Scotland had to offer. I was wrong. For example, one popular treat is the Stonner, which is basically a sausage wrapped in gyro meat, battered, and deep fried. In Scotland, "stonner" is a euphemism for an erection, which seems ironic, given that coronary occlusions can lead to impotence. Still, I guess we all find our excitement in different places...
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Filed under: Food Oddities, Guilty Pleasures, Ingredients, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants

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Deep Fried Bacon Double Quarter Pounder

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by Nicole Weston, Posted Jul 2nd 2006 @ 4:12PM

Clearly, there are some people who will deep fry anything. Mars bars, Twinkies, chocolate truffles, fruits and vegetables are all fair game for the fryer, but this deep fried bacon double quarter pounder is the first of its kind that I have seen. Bacon was fried and added to two, stacked quarter-pounders (with cheese) and coated in batter before being fried. Click here to see a step-by-step photo essay. The chef says that he ended up eating the whole thing and wasn't hungry again for more than 24 hours.

And what is that beside the burger? It looks like a pile of crispy, fried batter - the savory version of funnel cake - not french fries. This meal could only get greasier if the plate was fried, too.

For the health conscious, a regular double quarter pounder (with cheese) has 731 calories and 45 grams of fat (91% of the RDA of saturated fat). Add in the bacon (3 pieces) at 120 calories and 9 grams of fat. Add in the deep frying and the batter and, though I won't hazard an exact guess, you can bet that's a lot of extra fat.

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Filed under: Food Porn, Super Size Me, Feast Your Eyes, Methods

Food porn: fried oysters from Tani's

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by Sarah Gilbert, Posted Jan 7th 2006 @ 3:58PM

fried oysters at tanis portland oregon sarahgilbert
It's a testament to a truly consistent and excellent chef when foods that are nearly always disappointing at your run-of-the-mill restaurants are, instead, perfectly prepared, texturally impeccable, the promise realized. So it was with Tani's fried oysters, a special that my husband often orders but (at any other establishment) I always find greasy, improperly cooked, gritty and fishy tasting. But these oysters, these were enough to make me fall in love all over again with the mollusk. The breading was crisp but not fat-laden, light but flavorful, the dish an amazing juxtaposition of fleshy oyster, delicate coating.

Filed under: Food Porn, Raves & Reviews, Feast Your Eyes, Chefs & Restaurants, Restaurants, Methods

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