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2016 LOGAN COUNTY FAIR
LINCOLN DAILY NEWS July 29 - August 6, 2016
B
efore I can say goodbye to fair
food for another year (or at
the very least, until the state fair),
I thought it appropriate that I stop
for dessert. I’m not a huge dessert
person by nature. I enjoy cake and
pie on occasion, especially now
that I’m an adult and I can buy
cake for no other reason than to
have it. But overall, I tend to avoid
a lot of sweets. But there is a very
sweet dessert that I have avoided
for the last few years at the fair,
and I decided it was time to see
what all the fuss was about. It was
time to eat a deep-fried candy bar.
At the county fair, there is a stand
called Pam’s, and they sell deep-
fried candy bars in three varieties.
Deep-fried candy is a concept that
has baffled me for the last few
years. Is it possible to deep-fry
candy? Does batter go well with
chocolate? Won’t the chocolate
just melt away under the heat of the
fryer? The answer to all of these
questions is apparently yes. A
deep-fried candy bar is a candy bar
dipped in batter and fried for three
minutes. The result looks like a
corn dog; for, like all great things,
it is served on a stick. It is then
coated in powdered sugar. I will
admit, I remained a little skeptical
as the woman at the counter
handed it to me and told me to be
careful; it was really hot.
I should specify before going any
further that I had my choice of
Three Musketeers, Snickers, or a
Milky Way for the candy bar in the
middle of the batter. I went with
the first option. Out of all three,
it’s my favorite, and seeing as I do
appreciate deep-fried foods, the
two could go together and turn out
okay.
As I took the first bite, I
stopped for a moment and
asked myself; where has this
been all my life? How could
fried dough and chocolate go
so well together? How could
melted chocolate covered
in batter on a stick taste so
good?
It’s the mystery and magic of fair
food, I suppose.
If there was a downside to the
deep-fried candy bar, it was
twofold. One, my mouth was
incredibly dry when I was finished,
and I had no drink left at this point.
Two, I’m still not sure it was
completely worth how expensive
it was. Either way, with such a
strange yet delicious treat for my
dessert, I felt I had finished my
journey through such delicacies,
at least until next year. Maybe by
that point in time my stomach will
have completely recovered.
Foodie goes to the fair:
Day 5
of the
Foodie
trek
By Derek Hurley