There’s a local food truck around here that has “chicken fried bacon” on their menu sometimes. Because bacon wasn’t already bad enough for you – they took it to the next level and breaded it and fried it. They didn’t have any the last time I got food from their truck, but the next time they do I’m going to have to try it, just because. Because how can you not at least try chicken fried bacon at least once?
What other similarly crazy food items have you encountered from food trucks, or at the state fair, or similar vendors?
I was at a brewery the other night that had a Lobster Truck serving lobster. It was pretty interesting for a Food Truck. They had precooked lobster served a variety of ways; salads, wraps, lobstercakes, etc. They also had live lobsters they were steaming and selling (pricey, but couples were generally sharing them).
We have one here in northern Alabama, believe it or not. I think they started as a food truck then opened a restaurant. They mostly sell lobster rolls. No fresh lobsters.
We have a lobster truck here, and like the one above they mainly sell lobster rolls. I tried them once, and you end up paying a lot of money for not much food – something like $16 for a fairly small roll. I guess they do have shrimp as well, but lobster is obviously their specialty.
There’s another truck that’s run by a local surf and turf restaurant that sells lobster rolls as well as other seafood items, like fish and chips and stuff like that.
The Krispy Kreme booth at the NC State Fair has served hamburgers with donut buns and deliciously diabetes-inducing red velvet funnel cakes, topped with a baseball-sized dollop of cream cheese.
I’ve had a hot dog with peanut butter and bacon served in a split Twinkie as a bun. It was at a proper brick-and-mortar eatery, but I figured I’d mention it as it’s still in the spirit of the type of experimental weirdness you might find at a fair or food truck.
I’m pretty sure I’ve had “chicken fried bacon” before, but I don’t remember it having that snappy name. Just breaded (or battered), deep-fried bacon. It’s every bit as heart-stoppingly delicious as it sounds.
ETA: That’s it. They called it “country fried bacon.” Unfortunately, the place that had it here is long gone. They also had the best corn dogs I’ve ever had.
While not as crazy as the chicken fried bacon, we also have a food truck called Bacon Mania. As you probably guessed, nearly everything on the menu has bacon in it. Barbecue pulled pork with bacon. Mac and cheese with bacon. Bacon cheeseburgers. It seems like they used to have chili with bits of bacon in it, but I don’t see that on the menu now.
As I was writing that, I realized it was starting to sound like the Spam restaurant from Monty Python, except with bacon. Especially since most of the descriptions on their menu read like “Bacon infused thing with thing and other thing and more bacon.”
There was also a vendor at the fair last year that was selling something they called Unicorn Bacon - bacon on a stick that was dipped in glaze and rolled in Fruity Pebbles.
The butter is usually frozen for it, from the recipes I see, though it does seem a lot of it soaks into the dough. I mean, they have fried ice cream, so why not fried butter?
It’s colored puffed cereal (much like Froot Loops, but in the shape of balls) that’s soaked in Liquid Nitrogen.
You take one on a toothpick and put it into your mouth. The supercooled air pockets in the puffed cereal mixes with your breath and creates lots of smoke-like vapor, hence the name.
The FDA has warned against it, because if it still has liquid nitrogen in it you can seriously freeze your mouth 9or, if you swallow it, your internal organs)
I tried it, and spent a lot of time wondering if it was gonna damage my teeth. I kept it more on my tongue while I exhaled steam and until it warmed up.
They sold it at a local mall briefly, then I saw it at a county fair.
a friend of mine does food reviews and encountered deep fried bubble gum. I can’t imagine how anyone thought mixing batter and frying with chewy bubble gum. Bubble gum with batter bits :eek:
Yeah, that one’s been around for at least a decade I think. When did the bacon craze start? I want to say mid-2000s. (Though I remember at least one bar here that was doing bacon-themed foods as early as '99/'00.) Why hasn’t it quite ended yet? I mean, I think it has, for the most part, but, clearly, it’s still around in spots.
The deep fried bubblegum…whoa. I have no idea how anybody thought that was a good idea. I’m still a bit perplexed by bubblegum ice cream (that has actual pieces of bubble gum in it.) Who wants to actually eat bubblegum?
