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
# 14 Luc said, “The thing is, most readers of this blog are old farts.”
I take great offense. I rather pride myself on the issuance of none but the finest, freshest, crisp and pleasant new farts.
I used to save my flatulence until it could have rightly been called “old” but found these had some unpleasant consequences when ultimately released into the wild.
Especially in the presence of an ignition source.
Improbus: When I was stationed at Fort Sam Houston, Boy’s Town was well known to the medical corps as a cornucopia, a font, a well of venereal diseases that never seemed to dry up. The well, that is, not the diseases. Fortunately, this was a time before some of these bugs had become resistant and good old penicillin cleared most of them up nicely. Those we couldn’t cure went on to become general officers.
Having never been myself, I am curious, yet fearful: What kind of food on a stick did you procure in that fabled fairy land.
I don’t know but I didn’t see any pets around … except for the donkey of course.
Chocolate and bacon, bomb mixture.
Krispy Kremes always taste like what they are- glazed donuts fried and eaten days later. Fail! Glazed donuts should be prepared and eaten within hours, purchased at local bakeries. Donut Boy hath spoken.
Sigh, I can’t stand modern doughnuts because they soak them in sugar.
#26 deowll: Absolutely. I used to love buying churros when I lived in Mexico. The usual method was to take them out of the fryer and dump them into sugar or to fill them with chocolate or other fillings. But, if you were standing right there, you could get him to give them to you straight. Mmmmm.
There is decadence and then there is heart exploding experiments. Chocolate and bacon? I agree that’s just crazy talk. =]
In prison, we used to make sandwiches out of honeybuns and hot sausages……wicked awesome!!
#29….I hope you provided the “hot sausage” and not the “honeybun” !!!!