Curly Fries
There is Summertime Food (fresh corn, sweet tomatoes, bbq steak on the beach with sand on it so your teeth grind with each bite), and then there is Summertime Festival Food. These Curly Fries are a prime example of Summertime Festival Food and were spotted, photographed, and, presumably consumed by Blogmaid and RR the Unicorn at the San Mateo County Fair.
Not all food purchased at Summertime Festivals qualify as Summertime Festival Food. SFF can not have a scrap of nutrition. It must be deep fried. It has to be served in a paper container stained with transfat grease, by a teenager with at least one zit and two tats. Most importantly, the line to get at the SFF must be around the block and back again, proving that Summertime Festival Food is the most treasured grub on earth.
Other examples of SFF: Deep Fried Twinkies at Santa Cruz Pier, Deep Fried Battered Corn Dogs at the Balboa Pier, Deep Fried Chocolate Covered Bananas at the Gilroy Garlic Festival, a whole Deep Fried Garlic Bulb, also at Gilroy, the Amish Funnel Cakes at Bloomsburg County Fair and the Deeply Deep Fried Block Of We're Still Not Sure What It Was at the Shrimp and Petroleum Festival in Chalmette, Louisiana.
Perhaps you have favorites of your own? Send 'em here and we'll put 'em in.
posted by DAK @ 10:18 AM
1 Comments:
As a kid growing up in Kansas in the 60s, one of our favorite things were the deep fried pickle slices that a local drive in sold. I remember road trips where we would pile out of the car at some roadside burger place in the hopes of scoring some deep fried pickles, but I don't think it ever happened. Only in this one joint in Kansas.
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