Fair Food

Re:Fair Food (mbrookes)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:08:35 GMT

TJ Jackson, interesting abstract. Cilantro tastes like soap to me and to my son, but not to my daughter, suggesting that it may be a recessive trait.

Re:Fair Food (CCinNJ)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:37:00 GMT

Hey...get the fried foods outta the hot dog basket.

I was looking at the Fried Jambalaya trying to think of what the texture looks like. Americanized Chinese restaurant menu Shrimp Toast.

It is sad about Big Tex.

Re:Fair Food (MetroplexJim)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 09:23:13 GMT

Mrs. Metro and I go to The Great State Fair of Texas every other year. This year we are going on closing day and will be carrying a yellow rose to lay on the spot where Big Tex stood for 60 years.

In our experience, thinking about "Fair Food" is far more fun than actually consuming it. And watching the locals consume it with such gusto is far more fun than eating. But we aren't total Northern Condescenders; a Fletcher's Original Corny Dog is always on our menu.

My personal highlight is a private moment or two spent contemplating Chester Nimitz' hat, five star ingignia, and pictures of him and MacArthur on board the Missouri accepting the unconditional surrender of the Empire of Japan.

In the West the War ended with a cable to Marshall:
"The mission of the Allied Forces was fulfilled at 02:41 local time May 7, 1945. -- Eisenhower"

In the East it ended with McArthur pronouncing: "These proceedings are closed".

Contemplating the manner in which these gentlemen "spiked the ball" doesn't give me a "thrill up my leg", but it sure as Hell never fails to give me goosebumps and a tear or two of Pride.

Re:Fair Food (Foodbme)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 06:05:52 GMT

As seen at the Fair.
Gotta luv the Tee Shirt!!!!

Re:Fair Food (Foodbme)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 05:53:15 GMT

CCinNJ

This years winners of the Big Tex (sorry Big Tex) awards at the State Fair of Texas...
2012 Best Taste Deep Fried Jambalaya
2012 Most Creative Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll

Here's the article and a video.
Sure doesn't look like any Jambalaya I've ever eaten!
http://www.wfaa.com/news/local/Deep-Fried-Jambalaya-wins-State-Fair-taste-test-168379196.html
Make your own TX State Fair Favorites with this kit.
Comes with all the recipes!
http://www.texasfrybasket.com/?ref=TLB-bing-TF-TM

Re:Fair Food (CCinNJ)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:45:59 GMT

This years winners of the Big Tex (sorry Big Tex) awards at the State Fair of Texas...

2012 Best Taste Deep Fried Jambalaya
2012 Most Creative Fried Bacon Cinnamon Roll

Re:Fair Food (Hepcat)

Sat, 20 Oct 2012 01:33:33 GMT

Michael Hoffman

Now who doesn't absolutely love cilantro?

Put me down as a hater.

I'm a big fan of fair food though. Here are some of my favourites:

1. The corn dogs at the Super Dog stands at the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto are fabulous! Long, lumpy and they taste just right!

2. Funnel cakes, elephant ears.

3. Naleway's deep fried perogies.

4. There was an ice cream waffle trailer that set up at the Western Fair in London, Ontario for over forty years. It featured the standard rectangle of vanilla ice cream between two thick waffles but what set it apart was their own cherry-strawberry sauce with lumpy pieces of cherry and strawberry. It was simply the best ice cream waffle I've ever tasted and nothing at the CNE comes close. Sadly the trailer sported a for sale sign about eight years ago and it's not reappeared.

Re:Fair Food (mayor al)

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 17:18:41 GMT

Lisa...Use this in a sentence ( curmudgeonly ) and you can win a hundred points in the next Scrabble Tourniment ! Double the points if you link that word to the Men of Roadfood in your entry !

I guess I am a traditionist...Funnel Cakes/ Elephant Ears with Cinnamon Sugar or Powdered Sugar... Grilled or Roasted Ears of Corn... BBQ Beef, Pork, Mutton, or Chicken sandwiches... and for local (Ohio Valley) Specials--Snapper (Turtle) Soup, Catfish, Derby Pie, and Grauters Ice Cream (Mocha Chip).
I'll pass on the fried Butter, Thank You.

Re:Fair Food (lleechef)

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:42:17 GMT

Yep, still as snarky as ever, curmudgeonly too.

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Tue, 16 Oct 2012 12:16:37 GMT

Not to hear lleechef tell it.

Re:Fair Food (saps)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 22:48:55 GMT

Michael Hoffman

Ah, Tom, you seem to have missed what's happened. I've not changed even a little bit. What's occurring here is my goal is being met. That goal has always been to move people to my way of thinking. Obviously, I have been successful.

Marriage has mellowed him quite a bit.

Re:Fair Food (ann peeples)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 20:39:39 GMT

LOL!

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:51:20 GMT

Ah, Tom, you seem to have missed what's happened. I've not changed even a little bit. What's occurring here is my goal is being met. That goal has always been to move people to my way of thinking. Obviously, I have been successful.

Re:Fair Food (chewingthefat)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 17:36:25 GMT

Michael Hoffman

Michael Hoffman, get a grip on yourself, you have been WAY too HAPPY, WAY too LONG...no snark left out there???

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:24:31 GMT

Re:Fair Food (ScreamingChicken)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:11:05 GMT

Michael Hoffman

While I like cilantro I can imagine how terrible a meatball with cilantro instead of parsley would be.

I believe that would qualify as unfair food.

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 12:08:20 GMT

While I like cilantro I can imagine how terrible a meatball with cilantro instead of parsley would be.

Re:Fair Food (bartl)

Mon, 15 Oct 2012 11:50:11 GMT

Michael Hoffman
Now who doesn't absolutely love cilantro?

From my observations, it's an acquired taste. For years, I couldn't stand the stuff, and it took several years of regular consumption of Indian food to develop a taste for it.

One time, I was making meatballs for my mother, who despises cilantro. Unfortunately, the supermarket had cilantro right next to the Italian parsley (for those who don't work with the fresh stuff, they look VERY much alike), and I didn't realize my mistake until I had already mixed it in.

Bart

Re:Fair Food (TJ Jackson)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 20:47:46 GMT

Michael Hoffman

Now who doesn't absolutely love cilantro?

cant stand the stuff.

tastes like soap to me

and a lot of others too, a genetic thing: http://arxiv.org/abs/1209.2096

Re:Fair Food (mar52)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 13:58:21 GMT

Checking in...

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:39:17 GMT

Now who doesn't absolutely love cilantro?

Re:Fair Food (chewingthefat)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 12:20:55 GMT

I hear they have some tasty deep fried celery stuffed with cilantro!

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 11:30:51 GMT

Great game? Are you some kind of nut? That bunch of hooligans from the state where they celebrate the breaking of the law by calling themselves Sooners won.

Re:Fair Food (tiki)

Sun, 14 Oct 2012 07:44:23 GMT

it was a GREAT GAME though :)--and oh yes--Deep fried Coca-cola was debuted here at the Ok state fair--cant imagine Texas's fair missing that one! and No ,I didn't try it.

Re:Fair Food (Foodbme)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 23:30:08 GMT

Can't be much left that hasn't already been fried!

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:52:17 GMT

I didn't forget. The only thing I eat on a stick is a Fudgesicle.

Re:Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:51:01 GMT

TJ Jackson

Deep fried cincinnati style chili

I tried that at the Ohio State Fair. But the stand called it deep fried Greek meat sauce.

Re:Fair Food (mar52)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:15:04 GMT

You forgot...

On a stick.

Re:Fair Food (TJ Jackson)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 14:09:22 GMT

Deep fried cincinnati style chili

Fair Food (Michael Hoffman)

Sat, 13 Oct 2012 13:51:14 GMT

As I die watching the Texas-Oklahoma game in the cotton Bowl I can't help wondering what great fare is available this year at the Texas State Fair. What new fried stuff would I want desperately to devour?