SFSailor: residentgeek: I'ma let you finish, but I'm entering my stout into the NC state fair's homebrewing competition (first year!), and I think it's the best Foreign Extra Stout of all time.

/OF ALL TIME

Good luck! Hope you do great, but keep in mind that a lot of those contests are poorly run by people who only think they can judge. (e.g. I once got tasting notes back that were EXACTLY opposite, both completely unrelated to my beer... found out from an inside source later that the judges were drunk and had mixed at least some of the beers up). Do it for fun, but don't get bummed if you don't win!

Over time, I've found truly-blinded tasting with beer-knowledgeable friends to be more fun and educational... but that may just be me....

Good luck!

/ and what's an "elephant ear"?
// hungry now!

The Muthaship: SFSailor: and what's an "elephant ear"?

You poor, deprived soul.....I'm too stunned and saddened to describe it.

Here......


It's just as described.....
Here's the rub.....
They take it and after they cut it off...they flame sear it to burn off all the hair. Then next they have to let it rest. That lets the juices settle in it except the part where they sever it from the head. that part is stitched up so you don't lose any of the moisture. After about half a day, they can then fillet the grey skin off of that and then they marinate the meat.
That goes in a marinade of soy, beer, ginger root, cloves, cardamom, grains of paradise, and various local ground dung. It then marinates a week. Like the possum thread, this is oily and tough until it sits.
After that it is drained and then rubbed with roobis leaf and then they use the kava kava root as a base for the bread that it goes on. Finally after they are ready, it is ground up and mixed with local foul, which is again ground up and then mixed with the local spices, the ground dung used as the original dry rub and then the whole thing is stuffed in sheep,pig or cattle intestines (or the elephant intestine if they have any left over from the hunt) and then it is cooked. Finally it is served with a sauce made of the congealed blood of the various animals used for the meal, mixed with milk, as is the Masai tradition, and then spread over the thin slices of ear. (Like ketchup to us) the hard part is portioning the delicacy on to a bun from the kava kava root starch that is mixed with ground hooves (like a flour) to hold the elephant ear. Once you get that sliced and on the bread, (with the appropriate condiment) then it is a snack as large as a dinner plate and that's just ONE serving. One ear usually serves about 20-25 people.
It's amazingly filling and tasty but doesn't last. Because you only get 2 ears per elephant, it's hard to get them to the fairs and if you get the smaller baby elephants, the intestine is much smaller so you have to use a few slices to fill the bread not to mention that you maybe can get 10 to 12 sandwiches from one ear. (If that..the really little ones just aren't that meaty and as opposed to veal really tough cause it's all skin on no meat.)



After that, then it is

InternetSecurityGuard: vballer: InternetSecurityGuard: Fletchers Corny Dogs at the State Fair of Texas.

Absolutely this!

I also have to get a Dole Pineapple Whip every year.

I havn't tried the Dole Pineapple Whip. Should I pack a few units of insulin?

nah. it's just soft serve ice cream in a cup of pineapple juice.

Loaf of curly fries... and by loaf I mean as big as a loaf of bread in the store. They mechanically, spiraly cut large potatoes in front of your eyes and then place as much as they can into a basket the size of a loaf of bread then deep fry. When done they plop the whole contents of the basket on a plate and serve. Yum Yum!

cjmook21: Deep fried Crisco

Make fatback cubes filled with Crisco then fried.

Deep-Fried Pizza on a stick should be invented. Something like a Pizza Roll, Hot Pocket, or Calzone that stays together on a stick.

ChipNASA: After that, then it is

Sorry, too much text....after that it is refrigerated until just about to be served, it is flash grilled with lard to give it some fat (they're VERY lean=healthy) and then served fresh to you.
TA DAH!!!!!!
/gotta get me some soon!!!

Pronto Pup for the win.

Fresh made apple fritters at the Apple Harvest Festival in Southington, CT.

Fried cheese on a stick from Knoebels.

And blue birch beer.

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"Hai guys! What's goin' on in this thread?"



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Beer battered, deep fried, fudge brownie and peanut buttercup stuffed Twinkies wrapped in bacon, sprinkled with powdered sugar... frozen and encased in Magic Shell with sprinkles.

On a stick.

at the la county fair, there's a place that serves corndogs and sausage n peppers on a roll. so i get them to make me a sausage corndog. scrumptious!

Liposuction on a stick?

cjmook21: Deep fried Crisco

Vegetatable, blech!

I've never had a deep fried twinkie. Always wanted to try it. Just can't justify the price of them. WTF!?

You haven't lived until you've had Graham Elliot's lobster corndog with lemon aioli at the Lollapalooza festival.

/hey, festivals are like fairs

Mr_Fabulous: You haven't lived until you've had Graham Elliot's lobster corndog with lemon aioli at the Lollapalooza festival.

/hey, festivals are like fairs

Okay, I thought i was bad with bringing up Disney Land corn dogs.

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Pronto Pup for the win.

Great now I'm hungry.

muck4doo: Mr_Fabulous: You haven't lived until you've had Graham Elliot's lobster corndog with lemon aioli at the Lollapalooza festival.

/hey, festivals are like fairs

Okay, I thought i was bad with bringing up Disney Land corn dogs.


I'm just sayin', that's pure lobster meat going on inside there...

ChipNASA: ArcadianRefugee: ChipNASA: ByOwlLight: The answer is always turkey legs.

How to improve on that

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Bacon-wrapped two pound turkey leg called The Cave Man Club.

Goddammit! Now I gotta change my underwear again.

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OR

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See my earlier post.

Watch 'em being made.

Served warm and sugary.

I'm a health nut - one of those people under 20BMI who thinks that fair food is mostly a travesty, horrible fat blight wielded upon the population of an unsuspecting city...

That said...

There's this one stand at the fair that I got into before my healthy eating habits got started. It's been there every year since I found out about it 7 years ago. This place makes pretzels... awesome, huge, doughy pretzels... with garlic butter and cheese...



nom nom nom nom

Deep Fried Chicken Thighs with a Corn Dog Type Batter.
That's my idea for a new Fair Food.

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MMMMM...

Grilled Sepia! My death row meal...

French fry hot dog!




On a stick....

they need to use tempura batter on more things. it's lighter and tastier.

Elephant ears are maybe the only reason I go to the fair. If the local school ever closes up that stand, I will cry.

I don't go to fairs, which is to say, I tend to avoid hot, sun-baked, oversized parking lots where carnies whose hands have been *shudder* I can't imagine, are preparing food that, even in the best of circumstances, is extremely unhealthy. Kind of like Fry eating a hot dog from a vending machine in a toilet.

Mr_Fabulous: muck4doo: Mr_Fabulous: You haven't lived until you've had Graham Elliot's lobster corndog with lemon aioli at the Lollapalooza festival.

/hey, festivals are like fairs

Okay, I thought i was bad with bringing up Disney Land corn dogs.


I'm just sayin', that's pure lobster meat going on inside there...

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Okay, I admit it, that looks good.

theodopolis13: InternetSecurityGuard: vballer: InternetSecurityGuard: Fletchers Corny Dogs at the State Fair of Texas.

Absolutely this!

I also have to get a Dole Pineapple Whip every year.

I havn't tried the Dole Pineapple Whip. Should I pack a few units of insulin?

nah. it's just soft serve ice cream in a cup of pineapple juice.

No, it's soft serve pineapple ice cream in a cake cone. There's no pineapple juice. Very simple and really refreshing.

I'm a freak at the fair. Everyone else is stuffing their maws, but I can't do it. Whenever I am hot and walking a lot, my appetite goes out the window. If we stay after dark, I like to share a strawberry-covered funnel cake with someone though.

vballer: theodopolis13: InternetSecurityGuard: vballer: InternetSecurityGuard: Fletchers Corny Dogs at the State Fair of Texas.

Absolutely this!

I also have to get a Dole Pineapple Whip every year.

I havn't tried the Dole Pineapple Whip. Should I pack a few units of insulin?

nah. it's just soft serve ice cream in a cup of pineapple juice.

No, it's soft serve pineapple ice cream in a cake cone. There's no pineapple juice. Very simple and really refreshing.

you're right. i was thinking of a dole pineapple whip float.

dog ears
like elephant ears
but more "meaty"

chicken ripple ice cream.

The Muthaship: SFSailor: and what's an "elephant ear"?

You poor, deprived soul.....I'm too stunned and saddened to describe it.

All right, fine. I will endeavor to find a fair and an exemplar. Though I may be a bit afraid. Of course the last thing even resembling a fair I attended had endless free samples of beer and bourbon. EVERYTHING else sucks compared to endless free beer and bourbon.

Also, a round of applause for Mr. ChipNASA, but mobile replying sucks and I didn't want to 2x the wallotext.

Yanks_RSJ: Zeppole

It's a shame it took this long for the best food to be intro'd in this thread.

/funnel cake for you white people out there