Consuming unhealthy food on sticks has become a Fair time tradition. Even a cliche. But it makes perfect sense when you stop and think about it. People go to the Fair in a mood to indulge a bit. Food sales is a hyper competitive business with more vendors than you can count. Those who accommodate indulgences will make money, although I suppose somewhere on the Fair grounds is a lonely outpost selling granola and fresh fruit.
As to the stick part, well, your product is probably dripping with hot deep fry oil or frosting-better yet both!-and is not something people want to grab a hold of. You need to send them on their way so as to make room for the next rube, so what better solution than food with a handle!
Here with minimum comment are Bad Things on Sticks from the 2011 State Fair:
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This seems like a knock off of the venerable "Pronto Pup" copyright issues one imagines
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| I don't know how they managed this |
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| I really did not want to ask about this one. |
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| This is "Beer on a Stick" A clever wooden paddle with holes for three small sample glasses! |
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The hunt for ever more exotic meat to deep fry and impale..
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| Hot dish is a Midwestern tradition. Think macaroni and hamburger. |
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Trendy. Looks like just coffee flavored ice cream
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OK, I admit this last one was cheating. A pinball machine is something you really must not eat, most of the preceding were simply things that you really should not eat.
I searched in vain for
Stick of Butter on a Stick but did not see it. Had I captured this elusive prey I would have saved it for State Fair Part Four.....Food couldn't actually get any worse.....could it?
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