Fried Food at the Fair, New to the Old

Del Mar Fairgrounds

2260 Jimmy Durante Blvd. San Diego, CA 92130

UNTIL July 5, 2010
Starts At: 11:00 AM
Ends At: 11:00 PM
Admission Cost : $13.00

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From Sign on San Diego:

WHAT’S NEW

Nouveau nibbles this year are essentially getting the same old fair treatment. You know: dipped in batter, dragged through roiling oil and, as often as not, skewered on a stick.

• Doing the deep-fried backstroke for the first time this year are Pop Tarts, Klondike Bars and butter (in batter-coated sweet and savory renditions). Other foods with a “fry” component include Buffalo Chicken Fry Bread, Sweet Potato Fry Dog and Hash Brown Fry Dog (a frank dipped in batter, rolled in hash browns, then submerged in oil).

• This year’s blockbuster is a 4-pound “belly buster” burger decked out with 10 slices of cheese, half a head of lettuce, 8 slices of tomato and nearly a cup of burger sauce on a specially baked, 11-inch sesame seed bun. If this repast seems too modest, the fatty patty can be paired with a large drink and Colossal Curly Fry cone for $25.

• If you have room, before you leave the Midway and shamble over to the Fun Zone to ride a roller coaster, sate your sweet tooth with the new camel milk chocolate bar, Dreamsicle Float, Ice Cream S’more or, for those who like sweet/salty sensations, chocolate dipped pickles.

RETURNING FAVORITES

If the new doesn’t appeal, there are plenty of veterans to choose from. Like bad habits, many of our guilty pleasures from last year are being reprised for this season’s fair in all their artery-choking glory.

• Smitten with last year’s chocolate-covered bacon? Fear not. The Mexican Funnel Cake stand is bringing back its cacao-coated pork fat treat.

• Chicken Charlie’s will fire up its fryers for a return of its finger-lickin’ frog legs and crispy-on-the-outside-ooey-gooey-on-the-inside Oreos and S’mores. While not bathed in hot oil, last year’s novel Krispy Kreme Chicken Sandwich is on the menu again, too.

• Juicy’s Outlaw Grill in the infield will again whomp up Bar-B-Que Spaghetti, a tangled pile of chopped brisket in sweet-and-tangy barbecue sauce poured over pasta, then heated in a smoker.

• The Big T, a pounded pork cutlet — breaded and fried, natch — can be hefted once more at The Burger Joint just off the Midway.

• Also from The Burger Joint: Colossal Curly Fries, that gorgeous 1 1⁄2-pound cone of piping-hot, spiral-cut spuds, and Slider Shots, a trio of bite-size cheeseburgers with dipping sauces.

Read More about the The Fair Food and Beer HERE