San Diego Fair: Fried Food Review

I like to head to the San Diego County Fair once a year, just for the sake of riding the ferris wheel with my honey, checking out stuff like the blue ribbon flowers and 4H exhibits, and snarfing on bad-for-me food. Chicken Charlie, a fast food hawker at the fair, typically debuts a new fried food concoction each year, and out of curiosity I usually try one.

This year the big news was deep-fried s'mores. They were actually pretty good. Last year I had a deep-fried twinkie, and I think the s'more one-ups the twinkie. It's the melted marshmallows that really make it good, and the bit o' melty chocolate takes it a step beyond the twinkie. Plus, obviously a deep-fried twinkie just doesn't provide enough calories, so you really gotta go whole hog.

Here are some of the other fried-food highlights:

• Fried avocados. Pretty self-explanatory. Take the fattiest fruit and cover it in batter. I was halfway tempted to try it.
• Deep-fried white castle burgers. Ugh.
  
• Deep-fried chicken sandwich. But wait -- the bun is actually two Krispie Kreme donuts!  This was popular last year, but I didn't see anyone ordering it this year.
• Fried Coke. A major disappointment. It's just little bits of fried dough, they just use Coke as the liquid. It does not taste like Coke.

But, the all-time winner of original and horrifying fried creations for 2009 is (drumroll).....