Chocolate Covered Bacon

I have tasted things you might never believe, squishy, brainy snow fungus, rubbery pig's feet, or black chinese death eggs, and yet none of them really seems more bizarre than this: chocolate covered bacon.

I can imagine why people eat pig's feet, or even century eggs. Why anyone would ever dip cold precooked bacon into chocolate, however, is beyond me.

One might assume that since it's sold every year at the Indiana State Fair, that there's a reason. After all, sometimes unexpected things taste good. And perhaps the saltiness of the bacon would accompany the sweetness of the chocolate, as in chocolate covered pretzels.

You'd be wrong. Dead wrong. The first bite you have the distinct taste of chocolate, the next stringy, barely cooked bacon pouring acrid smoky aromas into your nostrils. Describing this as unpleasant doesn't do it justice, this experience was an abomination. Nowhere int he depths of the human conscious mind should this have been allowed to surface. Thankfully, the fair is only once a year, and the rest of the year we all don't take leave of our senses quite so readily.

Deep Fried Butter

Somewhere out there is a man. Not just any ordinary man, but a man with a purpose. His purpose? To throw random foods into batter, and then deep fry them to discover this year's latest State Fair food.

Last year it was the Deep Fried Pepsi, a donut that asked only one question: could anything even sound more disgusting?

Well never fear, for 2010 there is the now infamous deep fried butter, a thick battered wall of dough protecting a large pocket of molten butter.

Now, if you thought this was bound to be the worst thing in history, you'd be wrong for two reasons. One, the worst thing in history is proabably chocolate covered bacon. But two, it was actually... good? In fact, the butter inside was pleasant and the soft, but crisp shell was downright tasty. I mean, it was rich, and in that way disgusting, but so is cake, and while I wouldn't eat this everyday, the buttery goodness certainly wasn't bad. In fact, I might prefer the things to elephant ears and funnel cakes.

Definitely worth a try. One only wonders what the mysterious deep frying man will create next year...

Chapter 4 : The Indiana State Fair

In all the world, perhaps nowhere have such bizarre foods been seen as your local state fair. For reasons unbeknownst to modern man, every year new and more bizarre concoctions come out.... almost all of them deep fried.

Deciding to take our lives into our hands, Katrina and I arrived and decided to go for one of the fair's most famous attractions: Deep Fried Cheese. Cut into large cubes, breaded, and deep fried this creation rose from the pits of the deep fryer, oozing with milkfat and corn oil.

The taste was actually not all bad, although the ranch accompanying it was a bit too much.