Your Uncle Dave used to live a few blocks from the fairgrounds where the specialty each year used to be cream puffs. Ah, how times change.
Between the cream puffs and everything you can get on a stick, food at the Wisconsin State Fair is a dish best served over the top. Ladies and gentlemen, meet 2010′s early favorite: the Krispy Kreme Cheeseburger.
Sold at the Machine Shed tent at the fair, the $5 burger features the normal patty and melted cheese, but with a Krispy Kreme doughnut for a bun. For an extra dollar, patrons can top the burger with last year’s big hit: chocolate-covered bacon on a stick (furthering the debate on whether the new dish is dinner or dessert).
The calorie count: 1,000, according to Nathan Morrissey, executive chef at the Machine Shed.
What’s the burger’s appeal?
“Well, let’s see,” Dave Owens of Appleton said at the fair’s opening day Thursday. “It’s a doughnut with chocolate-covered bacon and a cheeseburger put together. How could you go wrong?”
Found by Brother Uncle Don
Chocolate and bacon were never meant to go together.
I was at the WI State Fair yesterday and entered the Machine Shed Tent under Curiosity. I will tell you this there was no shortage of people downing this thing. Me? I couldn’t pull the trigger.
Looking at the majority of the people scarfing these down (and I love a good burger as much as the next guy) I just wanted to you yell “you need to drop the Burger and introduce yourself to some vegetables!” But that being said this crowd would of probably just run over to the Deep Fried Green Bean Stand (I Sh*t you Not!).
I do have to admit I have been a bit intrigued by the chocolate covered bacon, but again had to pass.
#2…breaded green beans taste interesting, fun to try. Deep fried dill pickles are wicked awesome. lol
I’d try one of these if I could split it with a friend.
# 2
Were there long queues for the toilets and cardiac resus machine?
My arteries are clogging up just reading about this “meal”.
Did very well with sheeple in Mississippi during testing.
It’s the state fair. It happens once a year. You would think that #2, #3, and #5 never stray from their diet of gruel, even on special occasions. You are not going to get a heart attack by eating fair food if you only do it once a year. Worse case, you gain a few pounds that you will lose again by the end of the week.
Personally, I would not eat this Krispy Kreme burger, because the idea sickens me. I need to save room for my lamb sandwich, Philly Cheese Steak, and footlong corndog on a stick.
Obviously #7 doesn’t understand the meaning of the phrase “tongue in cheek”
That being said, gruel is not a diet of which I am familiar but there is a lot to be said about moderation and if you would have seen a number of these people or a very high percentage of Americans you would see that is it not a once a year happening nor eating like that on a special occasion. Hell, I even had a corn dog yesterday! (gotta have something on a stick at the state fair.
I confess, as I have gotten older my consumption of fast food items like hamburgers have gone way down. This fair food would probably make me violently ill since my body has gotten used to and expects real food.
There are people who can eat a donut and be satisfied. There are others that when the hot doughnut sign is on must have a dozen. I’m diabetic and skip donuts, but if by magic I could eat a dozen without harm, I would give it a try. I don’t want damn cheap burger on them.
paula deen did this a few years back
http://youtube.com/watch?v=zv8yEMRDe_w
They forgot the fried egg. Paula Deen did this already in 2008.
Didn’t I read that the fair was serving up deep fried butter on a stick? Mmmmmm. Hope the breading is corn meal. As for the donut/burger? No thanks. Doesn’t even sound interesting. In college I had a roommate who used to make a donut sandwich for breakfast but the filling was a fried egg and a slice of ham. To each his own.
@13
I had my share of food perversions when I was young too. The thing is, most readers of this blog are old farts.
There are scientific reasons why this sells.
Read The End of Overeating: Taking Control of the Insatiable American Appetite; David Kessler. That breaks it down in all its gory detail.
#8 said “a very high percentage of Americans you would see that is it not a once a year happening nor eating like that on a special occasion.”
The State Fair is a special occasion. I am going to the Iowa State Fair tomorrow and I will indulge in yummy goodness. However, it is just a special occasion. As far as I know, the stands that sell foods like these are closed when the Fair is not in session. We are talking about the State Fair. I wouldn’t eat the donut hamburger. My fair diet requires me to only eat food on a stick while on the fair grounds.
I would feel so disgusting if I ate like that on a daily basis. After the state fair, I am making all the things from the recipes I brought back from the fair. Most of those are healthy. Fair food is what I consider a treat. I don’t eat funnel cakes, or stick food very often.
I haven’t had food on a stick since my last visit to Boy’s Town in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, some time in the late 90′s.
Damn, I was going to include a link to Wikipedia but the blog didn’t take the link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boy%27s_Town,_Nuevo_Laredo
Actually it was deep fried butter balls, with a smattering of honey. It was great, I however do not eat like this on a daily basis. I also do not subsist on wheat germ and soy milk either. Eat a balanced diet with an emphasis on the greens, exercise in moderation, and enjoy the fun (strange, tasty, and sometimes weird stuff) on occasion. Life is a one way trip you should at least enjoy the journey.
Hey, ya gotta leave room for desert….
“deep fried twinkie”.