Archive through July 14, 2003
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Archive through July 14, 2003
Eliz87 | Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 09:11 pm     I'm seven weeks pregnant and already the cravings are starting. The first time I was pregnant, I wanted McDonald's hamburgers (any kind) and onions -- lots of lots of onions. On everything. This time, it's ice cream, onion rings and of course, McDonalds. And...CARNIVAL FOOD. Namely, CORNDOGS. Or the carnival fries. Or funnel cake. Or anything else! What type of carnival food is your favorite? |
Tabbyking | Sunday, July 13, 2003 - 09:29 pm     oh my heck...i would say corndogs, too. even though our store has a package of 18 for about 5 bucks, nothing tastes as good as that "deepfried over-priced corndog of dubious origin" at the fair! we also have a hot cinnamon roll seller at the fair. on a cool night, people are lined up 40 or 50 deep. they are expensive--$3.00 and 3.50 if you want icing and pecans on top, but they are to die for. you keep unwrapping and finding nice hot pockets of buttery brown sugar and cinnamon filling... jeez, eliz87, you got me damn hungry!! when i was pg with my son, i ate 2 lobsters about 4 times a week. i thought he would be born with claws LOL. i also had to have a round french roll, with WHITE american cheese, deli turkey, lettuce, tomato, black pepper and a teensy bit of evil mayo. i would get up in the middle of the night to make one, so i could devour it at 8:00 a.m.! the cheese could not be next to the mayo, or i would cry. with my daughter, i loved white albacore tuna with just enough evil mayo to hold it together, lots of dill pickles, celery, green onions, etc, in it. and once, i wanted my husband to find the old falafel place that i remembered in san jose from when i worked near o'connor hospital 18 years earlier. i knew it was 'sorta near' valley fair mall, too. we drove around for about 2 hours, and i found it! it had closed about 10 minutes before we got there. i cried buckets!! but i learned to make them at home pretty well, and i found i could 'bake' or 'broil' the falafel patties, so they wouldn't be fried. i ate enough pita bread/falafel/plain yougurt mixed with onion and chopped cucumber sandwiches to last a lifetime. but they didn't last a lifetime ;>) i got mad at our store several months back when they discontinued their falafel mix, because, as they said, "no one bought it." well, I did!! the only thing i could not have was garlic. every time i even smelled that wonderful smell, i would get terrible heart burn that started at my belly button and went all the way up. i couldn't even wear undies if the pain started. it would last for 5 or 6 hours when i got it. nothing i could take helped it at all. one day my husband's big boss from the air force was in from washington, dc and we made reservations for a great mexican restaurant. about 2 hours before we had to go, i got the 'garlic sick' from something. ( i didn't know it was garlic at the time). i tried to make it to dinner, and i drove one car (barely) and my husband took the other. before my food even came, i knew i could not force myself to eat one bite. i was trying not to slide down my chair or whip my panties off, so my stomach could 'breathe'! i ended up having to go home. a day or so later, i made spaghetti sauce and garlic bread. i got sick right away, and knew it was from the garlic. just cutting it out of my diet worked wonders! about a month after i discovered garlic made me sick, i made some chinese food and used chinese 5 spice in it. (no garlic in it.) i got sick immediately after eating about 2 bites. i started crying, "i can't even eat chinese 5 spice?!" and my husband said, "we have chinese 5 spice?" i said, "duh, and it was here when i married you, so you must have bought it." and he said, "oh, i am so sorry! i finished the 5 spice about 3 years ago. i filled the container with dried garlic." well, at least i knew for double-damn sure it was garlic that gave me a problem, as i had done a 'blind test'!! luckily, after my daughter was born, i was back to eating garlic! |
Christina | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 04:07 am     For me , ...I LOVE cotton candy. Isnt that a food? I almost stopped at a small fair yesterday, just for a cotton candy. I didnt get one becuz I had to pay large to get into the fair, then wait in line. My husband DID say...do you really want it, cuz he would have made sure I got some if it was an emergency! good man! |
Bobbie_552001 | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 04:43 am     Give me all of it....the only reason I go is to eat..eat..eat. Which is going to have to stop..stop..stop. Its diet time!! But cotton candy thats fat free, right? |
Ladytex | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 06:14 am     MMMM, Funnel Cake!! |
Kaili | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 06:16 am     Fried cheese curds and kettle corn. Yum. |
Sweetbabygirl | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 06:48 am     Soft serve ice cream in a cup and ice-cold fountain soda with a large order of hot, salty french fries.....mmmmmmmmmmmm, french fries! (SBG drooling) |
Gail | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 06:52 am     Funnel cakes for sure and I don't like corn dogs but i love then they have the cheese on a stick that is battered and fried like a corn dog. The ultimate best fair food is at the Iowa State Fair - they have the America's cut pork chops that you can cut like butter with a plastic knife. |
Tabbyking | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 09:05 am     for those of you in new england, have you had the 'mile high pie' they sell at home and garden shows, fairs, etc? there is a company that goes around to all kinds of events and sells these incredible apple pies that are put in the pink cake boxes and the lid can't be closed down. the last time i had one was in 1985 when i was pregnant with my son. a slice was 2 bucks and a whole pie was maybe 6...i'll bet they are about 12 bucks now, if they even still have them. i remember the piece as being huge width-wise, too. it may have been 1/4 of the pie. i liked mine plain, but they had slices of cheddar cheese, whipped cream, and ice cream to put on top... the absolute best apple pie ever. i think i could care less about an apple pie, unless the mile high type came around! |
Curiouscat | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 12:24 pm     This reminds me of a show on Food Network Canada called Top 5 I just watched this weekend. The episode was on the "top 5" Deep Fried Treats. Corn Dogs and Funnel Cakes were shown. I haven't seen funnel cakes around here, but something like it called an elephant ear which is yummy. One thing I'd like to try that they showed was deep fried Mars bar. That was the first time I heard about it. Has anyone had a deep fried Mars bar before? |
Tabbyking | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 12:42 pm     they also batter and deep fry cadbury eggs. how much bad can we take?! i have had deepfried ice cream tacos...but not mars bars. |
Cjr | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 12:47 pm     The best carnival food is the Strawberry shortcake at the annual Strawberry Festival/Carnival in Orange County. I went every year for about 25 years. I haven't been in about 10 years though. I really miss it. Next in line is corn on the cob with lots of butter. I know these aren't carnivals but I HAVE to get funnel cakes with boysenberry topping whenever I go to Knott's Berry Farm and I get a frozen banana everytime I go to Disneyland. It just wouldn't be the same without them! Curiouscat, I have never tried the deep fried Mars bar but it sounds delicious! |
Eliz87 | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 12:57 pm     Has anyone tried the Fried Twinkies? I've heard about them but haven't seen them yet. They sound sooooo good! |
Cathie | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 01:05 pm     They had the deep fried Twinkies at the state fair last year. I haven't tried them, but a lot of people say they are "to die for"... My favorite at the fair are the funnel cakes, with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. And, favorite deep fried food not at the fair is the Monte Cristo sandwich at Bennigan's, a sandwich stacked with ham, turkey, and Swiss and American cheeses on wheat bread, then battered and fried ’til golden. Dusted with powdered sugar and accompanied by red raspberry preserves for dipping. Haven't had one for about 2 years, but it is very tempting after reading all these posts! |
Fabnsab | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 01:55 pm     My fave is the zeppoli's and sausage sandwich at our annual italian festival. When i was a kid, we'd hang out there every day it was opened. Now my husband and I do "drive bys" I jump out of the car, get 2 doz zeppoli's and 4 sausage sandwiches then he picks me up after circling and we go to the park and eat. I'll already be in Germany this year- i tis Labor Day weekend. I am so depressed. i havent missed it since I was 8. I tried to deepfry my own twinkie and oreo cookie. I may have done something wrong but it wasnt that good. They were tooo sweet and the filling seemed to evaporate. |
Monkeyboy | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 04:36 pm     I love Piggly Wiggly fries. |
Cjr | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 06:06 pm     Deep Fried Twinkies? I have never heard of deep frying them. Monkeyboy, what exactly are Piggly Wiggly fries? |
Cathie | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 07:10 pm     Here's an article with a recipe for deep fried twinkies: http://www.sptimes.com/2002/06/26/Taste/The_Twinkie_transform.shtml |
Twinkie | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 07:32 pm     I may be many things but deep-fried is not one of them! LOL My favorite carnival food is corndogs and candy apples. I'm not crazy about plain apples but I could eat candy apples everyday. YUM! |
Curiouscat | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 07:49 pm     What is your candy apple favourite: red or carmel coated? A favourite of mine that is a fair treat but from the sugar bush is "maple floss" - candy floss made with maple sugar instead of regular coloured sugar. I also found an article online about carnival food called The Joys of Carnival Food. |
Melfie1222 | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 07:53 pm     I saw another show on the Food Network, can't think of the name, Traveling Gourmet or something? He visited some pubs in Scotland where they deep fry just about anything and everything... candy bars, pickles, pickled eggs... I don't think they had any Hostess Treats, so Twinkie you might be safe there! I'm guessing Piggly Wiggly fries are some kind of curly fries? My favorites have already been mentioned... kettle corn (and I'm not really a popcorn fan), corn dogs, funnel cakes, caramel apples. Curiuoscat I just saw your post... from my background anyway, candy apples are "candied apples", those bright red dyed slices of apples you used to find on buffets and salad bars... the only kind of apples I've had at the fair are caramel apples on a stick, sometimes covered with chopped nuts. |
Twinkie | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 08:06 pm     Nope don't like caramel apples....just the bright red candy-coated apples on a stick. Kinda hard to bite into and a mess to eat but oh so good. |
Curiouscat | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 08:33 pm     I found some carnival food recipes at Food Network ... caramel popcorn, funnel cakes, corny dogs, and soft pretzels. My candy apple preference is caramel, and like Melfie, with chopped nuts. I always thought I was going to lose a tooth with the red-coated kind, but if someone offered me one, I'd take it  |
Cjr | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 09:17 pm     Wow, they are frying everything now huh? I don't know that I would like Twinkie deep fried.. Definitely not the fried oreos mentioned in the article. I love caramel apples. I am trying to figure out what kind of batter they use to coat Twinkies and candybars before deepfrying. I have really got to go to a carnival this summer and check this stuff out!! |
Myjohnhenry | Monday, July 14, 2003 - 09:40 pm     Deep-Fried Twinkies Ingredients 6 Twinkies Popsicle sticks 4 cups vegetable oil Flour for dusting 1 cup milk 2 tablespoons vinegar 1 Tablespoon oil 1 cup flour 1 teaspoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt Directions 1. Chill or freeze Twinkies for several hours or overnight. 2. Heat 4 cups vegetable oil in deep fryer to about 375 degrees. 3. Mix together milk, vinegar and oil. 4. In another bowl, blend flour, baking powder and salt. 5. Whisk wet ingredients into dry and continue mixing until smooth. Refrigerate while oil heats. 6. Push stick into Twinkie lengthwise, leaving about 2 inches to use as a handle, dust with flour and dip into the batter. Rotate Twinkie until batter covers entire cake. 7. Place carefully in hot oil. The Twinkie will float, so hold it under with a utensil to ensure even browning. It should turn golden in 3 to 4 minutes. Depending on the size of your deep fryer, you might be able to fry only one at a time, two at the most. 8. Remove Twinkie to paper towel and let drain. Remove stick and allow Twinkie to sit for about 5 minutes before serving. Makes 6. Variation: Slice Twinkie into 4 pieces. Flour and batter each before frying. With this treatment, one Twinkie will serve two people if accompanied by a sauce. Berry Sauce Ingredients 1 10-ounce jar of seedless raspberry preserves 1 cup fresh or frozen mixed berries Directions 1. In a saucepan, heat preserves over low heat until melted. 2. Add 1 cup of fresh or frozen mixed berries. 3. Heat until sauce just simmers. 4. Cover; refrigerate until served. Makes 1 1/2 cups. |
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