Another tasty treat from the folks at The Sweet Shoppe, caramel covered marshmallows on a stick. Just a few days prior to seeing these at the fair, John and I were at a Wal-Mart in Kentucky.  We don’t usually shop at Wal-Mart but had heard that their stores in Kentucky were carrying gluten-free Bisquick. I… 

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When I think of Food on a Stick, a Corndog* is the image that immediately comes to mind.  It’s the food I used to announce the 52 Foods on a Stick journey, on none other than National Corndog Day  It’s also the first Food on a Stick I chose to make gluten-free, it was the… 

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Sometimes Fair Food is completely over-the-top, throwing away all concern for how something tastes and instead focusing on either how much it weighs or how unlikely the combination of foods sounds (see Donut Burger).  The Crazy Apple is the first of these, a caramel apple of sorts that easily weighed five pounds. Even though the… 

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I tend to think of fairs and festivals as the best place to find Food on a Stick, but several times during this journey I spotted FoaS in unexpected places.  The Turtle Legs came from one such place. While working at an automotive festival in Denver, we ventured out to have dinner at one of… 

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While working at the Kentucky State Fair, I met Melissa and her mom. They were also working at the State Fair.  Over the course of 12 days, we chatted several times about Food on a Stick and a few times Melissa and her mom dropped by our sculpture installation to show me their latest finds…. 

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Every year, the folks at Murphy’s bring interesting new treats to the Kentucky State Fair.  In 2010, they had a fancy new liquid nitrogen set-up.  I was excited to see what they were doing with Fair Food and liquid nitrogen. Murphy’s was selling the Popcornsicle, a rapidly frozen popcorn ball on a stick.  The popcornsicle… 

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