# What's the craziest food truck, state fair, etc. food item you've encountered? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 26, 2019, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109 "2019-06-26T17:22:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![dzeiger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/46a35a/32.png) [@dzeiger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dzeiger)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2019, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/21 "2019-06-27T23:43:14Z")
I had fried butter at the Texas State Fair one year. Just cold/frozen butter surrounded by batter, the butter melts during the frying process, so you get a self-buttering bite of fried dough. Sounds more exotic than it actually ends up. When I was on a Disney cruise, we ate in their high-end adults-only restaurant Remy’s. The first course there was a fried tomato soup. One small little square of frozen tomato soup that gets battered and fried–tasted amazing. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/22 "2019-06-28T02:17:04Z")
Saw _ **Lobster Corn Dogs** _ at the Alameda County Fair today. I would’ve given them a try but I had just finished a regular corn dog and a tornado potato. ---
**Author:** ![Bijou\_Drains](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bijou_drains/32/2814_2.png) [@Bijou\_Drains](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bijou_Drains)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/23 "2019-06-28T02:27:51Z")
NC state fair has fried Coke and also fried candy bars such as snickers. ---
**Author:** ![aktep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f0a364/32.png) [@aktep](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aktep)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/24 "2019-06-28T17:23:02Z")
> [@dzeiger](#): > > I had fried butter at the Texas State Fair one year. Just cold/frozen butter surrounded by batter, the butter melts during the frying process, so you get a self-buttering bite of fried dough. Sounds more exotic than it actually ends up. Yeah, and they served it with jam and some other sweet dipping sauces, so it really didn’t seem much different than small beignets without sugar, or some of the fancy donut hole desserts you can get almost everywhere now. ---
**Author:** ![Leo\_Bloom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leo_bloom/32/10377_2.png) [@Leo\_Bloom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leo_Bloom)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2019, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/25 "2019-06-28T20:38:24Z")
> [@Hampshire](#): > > Deep fried cherry Australian licorice. They called the Cherry Bombs. They were okay. > Weirdest I saw but never tried was deep fried stick of butter. > > > [@xizor](#): > > > > I’m trying to parse the logistics of this one. Wouldn’t the butter just melt in the deep fryer, effectively leaving you with fried batter? > > > > > [@pulykamell](#): > > > > > > 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? Yeah, it’s a goofy show off chef thing the French have. The Chinese have fried milk, same kind of thing…baked Alaska for an appetizer mouth amusement. ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/26 "2019-06-29T00:09:13Z")
[Khlav Kalash with crab juice.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4NFv5IGP2uA) ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/27 "2019-06-29T01:52:44Z")
I’ve seen street vendors selling “balut”. It’s basically a fertilized duck egg. Not sure it exists in US state fairs, though. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [June 29, 2019, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109/28 "2019-06-29T06:33:25Z")
> [@CAH66](#): > > IL State Fair had scorpion pizza. It’s exactly what it sounds like. It would take a gun to get me to eat that, and probably a miracle to keep it down. Scorpion peppers, or scorpions the insect? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-the-craziest-food-truck-state-fair-etc-food-item-youve-encountered/836109.md?page=1)