FloriDUH: We’re fair game for fair food

We didn’t know it at the time, but early this year, Floridians served as fair food guinea pigs. Yes, it seems we were the first in the nation to double our doses of cholesterol meds. And what caught our fancy is now being churned out for the Midwestern masses. Veteran concessionaire Dennis Reas and his family, who live in the southern Indiana city of Corydon, tested new fair food this past winter during the Florida State Fair and other Sunshine State events, reports The Indianapolis Star. The Hoosier family behind the oh-so-yesterday chocolate-covered bacon is now serving up its Florida-tested food at the Indiana State Fair. Their big hit? A burger served between two Krispy Kremes, known simply as the doughnut burger, reports The Indianapolis Star . The burger will cost you a little dough: $6.50 Another new item to play havoc with your bad cholesterol numbers: deep-fried butter. Visitors can sample a hog’s trough of oddball fair foods: deep-fried sushi, deep-fried dill pickles, deep-fried candy bars, chocolate-covered popcorn balls, root-beer marinated ribs and the garbage burger — a pork

patty covered with pulled pork on a bun. But it was the deep-fried butter and doughnut burgers that drew the customers and the “just curious,” according to the Star. Reas freezes the butter and covers it in cinnamon before cutting it into cubes and frying it in something that’s been at the fair for years: funnel cake batter, reports The Star. Be on the lookout for deep-fried beer next year. The Telegraph in London reports this concoction is made by placing Guinness beer inside a pocket of salty, pretzel-like dough and then dunking in oil at 375 degrees for about 20 seconds, a short enough time for the confection to remain alcoholic. It will be officially unveiled in a fried food competition at the Texas state fair later this month. Getting hungry? The Florida State Fair is only 161 days away. Photo: The doughnut burger has Krispy Kremes instead of a bun and sells for $6.50. – Sam Riche / The Indianapolis Star More FloriDUH

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