Heart attack, anyone?
It’s not fair season yet, but I was at a loss for what to post, this being the end of a very long and strange year. I decided that, possibly, people had missed all of those foods that could have given them heart attacks last year, and perhaps they would want to prepare for the summer coming up.
Here is a look at some of the foods folks in Indiana love to eat at the state fair. For the most part, this will be list-only. For people in the Midwest, you know what I’m talkin’ about. For others, just the names might tell you how we roll….
Tried And True
Just a list, ma’am. Just a list.
- Giant Lemon Shake-Up (or sweet tea)
- Grilled Turkey Leg
- Smoked BBQ Chicken
- Grilled Sweet Corn dipped in Butter
- Gourmet Grilled Cheese
- Slaw-B-Q Sandwich
- Corndogs (Deep-fried)
- Funnel Cake (Deep-fried)
- Funnel Cake Burger (Deep-fried)
- Deep Fried Sauerkraut Balls (Deep-fried)
- Fresh Potato Chips (Deep-fried)
- Breaded Tenderloin (Deep-fried)
- Vegetables (Deep-fried)
- Pickles (Deep-fried)
- Cheese (Deep-fried)
- Hamburger or Cheeseburger on a Glazed Doughnut Bun (Deep-fried bun)
New Foods 2019/2020
These foods were advertised as new. Some debuted in 2019, but we didn’t have a 2020 fair.
- Monroe’s Midwest Hero: fresh hand-breaded tenderloin with cheese, bacon, and a special sauce.
- Bourbon Chicken: grilled chicken smothered in a sweet and tangy bourbon sauce with fresh cut broccoli (a vegetable that wasn’t deep-fried!), piled high on a bed of steamed cilantro rice.
- Indiana Pork BBQ Split: served just like a banana split in a boat with three scoops of pulled pork, macaroni and cheese and cole slaw.
- Lamb Taco: flour tortillas filled with Barbacoa lamb and served with pico, lettuce, onion and cilantro, finished off with cheese, sour cream and a side of salsa.
- American Hero: a hoagie made with Virginia ham, salami, and pepperoni, topped with a lettuce/slaw mixture, covered in a freshly made special sauce and topped with slices of American and jalapeño cheese.
- Bison Hush Puppies: hush puppies made from cornmeal batter, jalapeño and Red Frazier Bison, then deep fried and served with seasoned sour cream.
- Hoosier Hometown Hash: two hash brown patties grilled and surrounded by four types of cheese: Muenster, pepper jack, cheddar and Swiss.
- Poutine: freshly cut Idaho potatoes fried in Maple Leaf Farms duck fat, garnished with cheddar curd cheese nuggets and smothered in a very special Poutine secret recipe sauce. (Bacon Poutine is garnished with hickory smoked pepper bacon.)
- Buffaloaded French Fries: a jumbo plate of French Fries topped with a blend of white meat chicken, cheddar cheese sauce, buffalo hot sauce and blue cheese, garnished with ranch dressing, real bacon bits and chives.
- Angry Pretzel Poppers with Mad Ranch Sauce: diced jalapeños mixed in a made-from-scratch dough, then rolled in diced jalapeño, baked, buttered and salted, served with jalapeño ranch dressing.
- Cajun Queen: Jambalaya rice with one, two or three meats (blackened chicken, New Orleans steak and Andouille Sausage) with grilled onions, grilled bell peppers, melted sharp cheddar cheese and hot sauce.
- Relleno de Papa: a mashed potato ball filled with seasoned ground beef and fried golden brown, served with rice.
- Shepherd’s Pie: seasoned ground lamb, vegetables and gravy topped with mashed potatoes and garnished with green onions.
- The Rollin’ Mac Daddy Egg Roll: cheesy mac and cheese rolled into egg roll skin and deep-fried, with pulled BBQ turkey on top, served with BBQ sauce.
- Duck Fat Fries: freshly cut Idaho potatoes fried in Maple Leaf Farms duck and served with secret recipe quack sauce.
- The Hawaiian Haminator: ham and bacon mixed with BBQ Bacon Sauce and Yum Yum Sauce, served on a sesame seed bun and topped with provolone cheese and two pineapple slices.
Not Dead Yet?
Concentrate on desert.
Tried and True
- Caramel Apple Elephant Ear
- Birthday Cake Milkshake
- Deep-fried Twinkie
- Deep-fried Oreo
- Deep-fried S’Mores
- Deep-fried Chocolate Covered Strawberries
- Deep-fried Butter
- Deep-fried Chocolate-Covered Bacon
New
- Blue Raspberry Lemon Twister: a twist on blue raspberry lemonade.
- Deep Fried Cookie Ice Cream Sandwich: vanilla ice cream sandwiched between two chocolate chip cookies, dipped in funnel cake batter, deep fried, and garnished with powdered sugar and chocolate sauce.
- Deep-Fried Sugar Cream Pie: a slice of sugar cream pie is deep fried and topped with whipped cream and drizzled chocolate. Why stop there? Go with pecan pie as well…..
- Trifecta Hero Dreamsicle: a shakeup, slushy, and vanilla shake mashup. It’s blended with freshly squeezed lemons and limes, orange juice, simple syrup and French vanilla cream with a splash of water.
- Caramel Coffee Milkshake: vanilla ice cream, caramel and coffee.
In Closing
Oh. My. Gosh. I used to love this stuff. These days, they would be hard to look at, much less watch anyone eat………