I recently had my first Tornado Potato and it was pretty tasty. I’d definitely be willing to try Calgary’s Big Pickle Tornado.
A lot of that looks really good, and I’m a picky eater.
The rest of it looks horrible, like I wouldn’t even venture to try it.
Calgary has weird tastes!
No to Cricket Grilled Cheese, Prairie Oyster Balls, Smoking Charcoal Ice Cream in a Cup, Cheesy Chicken Hearts, Wine & Cheese, Deep Fried Bacon Wrapped Reese’s Cups, Giant Squid on a Stick, Cricket Caramel Apple, Sushi Doughnut, Red Velvet Corndog, Goat’s Head Soup, Black Charcoal Pineapple Ice Cream, Cookie Dough Burrito, Fish and Chips Dog, and Pizza Corndog.
Yes to Hot Ice Cream Donut Sandwiches, Bacon Onion Bombs, Deep Fried Pineapple Rings, The Spicy Chicken Arepa, Wat-A-Melon, Korean BBQ Tater Tots, Napolitano Soft Pretzel, Mexican-style Street Corn, Inside out caramel apple, Oreo Creamsicle delight, Watermelon & Raspberry Salad, Buffalo Chicken Perogies, Pulled Chicken Quesadilla, Boneless Rib on Ciabatta, Mighty Zeus Poutine, Szechwan Prawn Wrap, Beef and Chicken Pho-ritos, Banana Corndog, Corn in a Cup, Grape Float Heaven, and Macaroni and Cheetos Campfire Pie. Although not all of them.
Not really. Based on my years of living in Calgary and area, and even having worked at the Calgary Stampede a couple of times, I’ll say that it’s more trying to out-weird last year’s food offerings, than “this is normal for Calgary.”
I don’t know how things got this way, but every year, some people look forward with great anticipation to hearing about this year’s weird Stampede offerings; and when they are announced, it is big news, at least here in Alberta. During the Stampede itself, media outlets will invariably have features on how their reporters found the weird stuff. Some ordinary people will even try it.
But most will ignore it in favour of more traditional fair food, and when the Stampede is over, things go back to normal, food-wise. Until next year’s Stampede, when foods are bound to become ever weirder.
I would try most of the ones on that list - I draw the line at testicles though. Those suckers have boy hormones in them. I don’t want to sprout a mustache in the morning.
Deep Fried Masters: Because pizza and pecan pie are not bad enough; we need to batter and deep fry them. . .
I don’t like turning the TV off and on just for a short while like eating dinner. So we mute it. Mrs. FtG likes cooking shows (the real cooking ones, not the contests, etc.) so sometimes this is on while we eat.
Just glancing at the incredible piles of garbage people some people eat explains the fat epidemic in the US.
We’ve had threads about Carnival Food before. I thought I’d read the worst of it, but then I learned about
Depp Fried Kool Aid
Deep Fried Butter (!!!)
Deep Fried Beer
and I realized that nothing seemed too outrageous anymore.
Pass. I’ll be over at Chan’s chicken-on-a-stick truck…
Created by the man himself?
Deep fried pineapple rings are really good, and are a staple of the NZ fish and chip shop menu. Served with a sprinkle of cinnamon sugar.
Yum.
Don’t you mean Schweddy balls?
Ah, good. Glad to know the people of Calgary aren’t clamoring for crickets or prairie oysters 
The Exhibition in Toronto every August is a veritable Everest of disgusting food. Every year someone tries to re-up the previous year with something even more gastronomically horrific. A few years ago it was a giant ice cream cone with the cone made out of pizza, topped with bacon and hot peppers and covered in an entire jar of Nutella. It was by all accounts completely inedible, and yet the spectators were lined up to try it.
Every year one or another new offense to the Gods of food will make scores of people sick and they all complain, apparently previously unaware that eating a 6500-calorie confection made of meat, ice cream, candy, salt and hatred just might possibly disagree with your tummy.
Yeah, the image of the Cricket Grilled Cheese is going to haunt me.
I may have to skip lunch.
And I would have to try it, just because I haven’t and it’s there
I’d totally eat Deep Fried Bacon Wrapped Reese’s Cups.
Ironically, I was just trying to imagine what the next big disgusting-sounding fried fair food fad might be last night. I didn’t get far, though. Whether from lack of imagination or the fact that I was just about to drift off to sleep, I’m not sure.
I’d try most of what is on offer in Calgary if I didn’t have to pay for it. The charcoal ice cream is a turn-off, though. Not because of the way it might taste but I wouldn’t want to walk around with blackened teeth, gums and tongue for a while.
I’ve tried fried crickets before and they weren’t bad except that the exoskeletons reminded me too much of popcorn hulls, though not as tough. I was at a small Mexican restaurant that specialized in fare from Oaxaca state once and the owner brought me a few to try. She said there are farms down there that raise crickets for food. Interesting tidbit. Of course, I’d hate to have to hunt them down in the wild.
That sounds pretty much exactly like the Texas State Fair. Every year, they publish all the new and weird recipes in the paper, and there’s some kind of culinary competition, and then all this stuff goes on sale at some stand or other at the Fair.
Despite all that most people stick with corn dogs, hamburgers, funnel cakes and ice cream bars.
Protein. 
Certain crickets really are clean, high protein, and easy to raise.