Even more fried and bacon-wrapped food at Puyallup Fair this year
Aug 29, 2012, 8:59 AM | Updated: 2:36 pm
 Who wants just a regular caramel apple? This kid said M&M’s please. (Image Puyallup Fair – Patrick Hagerty) |
Fair food may not be high cuisine, but it is definitely a crowd-pleaser. This year’s Puyallup Fair is fast approaching, and former KIRO food critic and sour cream connoisseur Rachel Belle used her connections to get the scoop on all the new food happenings at this year’s event.
According to Rachel’s intel, there are definitely some new menu items worth seeking out, if not to eat, just to look at. One new menu item, Fried Lemonade, has The Ron & Don Show crew intrigued. How does that work?
Rachel says it’s not actually lemonade in liquid form, or even a powder. Evidently they fry a lemonade flavor infused marshmallow to get the fried lemonade effect.
This dish can be found at a new booth, Totally Fried. They also sell deep fried cake, deep fried salsa fritters, a deep fried PBJ, and even deep fried bubble gum.
Warm fair scones smothered in jam in butter, of which fair goers have eaten over a million of in past years, are an undoubted sweet standard not to be missed, but don’t be afraid to branch out.
A new dish called the Cowgirl Candy Cone piqued Rachel’s interest. The cone is sweet potato fries drizzled in marshmallow fluff with a caramel topping. This dish is from the Lady Luck booth.
The fair is also still tied up in the bacon trend. Fairgoers can get a bacon wrapped Hot Dog or Sausage at the Sausage Shack, or sample a Bacon Apple at Marcoe’s Carmel Apples.
From funnel cakes, Krusty Pups, BBQ, cotton candy, to shaved ice; the traditional to the new-fangled, the list goes on and on.
“This is what Rachel does all day long,” host Ron Upshaw joked as she rambled off all the fair’s new food items.
The fair is open 12 or more hours everyday in its run Sept. 7 through Sept. 23. That could easily make for multiple meals a trip. Take a look at the full list of new fair food items and print out a fair food map to make sure not to miss any delicious fair flavors.
By JAMIE GRISWOLD, MyNorthwest.com Editor
