Chef Gonzales preparing a batch

Mmmmm Mmmmm! Think I’ll wash it down with a donut bacon cheeseburger and a diet Pepsi.

Newest Fair Food: Deep-Fried Coca-Cola

There are fried Twinkies and even fried candy bars.

Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new artery-clogging concoction for the State Fair of Texas. It’s fried Coke.

Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The fried Coke is topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the fried Coke came about just from thinking aloud.

Gonzales’ diet-buster wins the creativity honor at the second-annual Big Tex Choice Awards Contest.

Judges for the contest chose Shirley London’s Fried Praline Perfection as the tastiest fried delicacy.

The two won out among 26 entries such as fried macaroni and cheese and a deep-fried cosmopolitan.

London said she came up with the fried pralines idea after buying pralines at the fair last year. She plans to sell the pralines alongside fried marshmallows.

Gonzales achieved notoriety in 2005 with the fried peanut butter, banana, and jelly sandwich — selling an estimated 25,000 of the treats, according to the fair’s Web site. The site said London got media attention in 2004 with her fried marshmallows on-a-stick.

This is the same state fair that brought about the corn dog. The Web site said Neil and Carl Fletcher conjured up a sweetened corn-battered wiener on-a-stick and sold it for 15 cents during the 1942 State Fair of Texas.

The fair begins Sept. 29.



  1. Tim Champ says:

    I love my fried foods (and my body shows it), but this grosses me out.

    And that’s saying something.

  2. Jägermeister says:

    Cheers to these folks for trying out new approaches to make tasty food. Maybe not the healthiest, but still inventive. 🙂

  3. ECA says:

    Anyone heard of Rape seed oil??

  4. rjmalsch3275 says:

    do you have a recipe for deep fried peanut butter and jelly and bananna sandwich? had some at texas state fair. deliscous.


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