500 Favorite Foods

[Lesley]

12. Porkchop on a stick: the MN State Fair. You need to get the one from the booth by the Haunted House. The other ones are merely OK.

I don't know what they do or how they do it, but this is consistently, year after year, the single best thing that you can get at the Fair. Cooked perfectly, spiced perfectly...it's a mouthwatering piece of perfection that is one of the truly MUST EAT FOODS at the entire Fair. The line is usually long for this meal, but it's totally worth every second of delay.

also: HELL YES on Blue Cheese, Chili Cheese Burritos, and All Dressed Potato Chips.

I have never tried this at the Fair.... perhaps I will add it to the list this year.

[Matt]

I have never tried this at the Fair.... perhaps I will add it to the list this year.

YOU MUST DO THIS. Go to the haunted house and look down the hill towards the Midway. The road slopes down slightly so you'll have a good view of everything. You'll see (and smell) smoke coming out of the red and white/silver booth that sells these porkchops. You'll also see the huge line...don't be dissuaded, get into that line and spend your $6.50 for the porkchop. BEYOND AWESOME.

[Shit Dickface]

Yea I was going to say chicken fried steak but Jake beat me. So..


14. Fried Catfish. Those scumsuckers are the second best thing in the planet to fry up. Serve with hush puppies and a but of fried gator and no less than 2 lbs of catfish pet person.

*heartattackfist*

[Matt]

Sorry, but I hate catfish. I've never had it prepared in a way that I've enjoyed. I can eat pretty much any other fish but these oily tasting things.

[Ed Hocken]

Hate catfish? Whoa whoa whoa

[Matt]

I'll eat the hell out of walleye, northern pike, tilapia, mahi mahi, salmon, orange roughy, red snapper, halibut, flounder, shark, Chilean sea bass, cod, sole...you name it. I just can't handle the oily texture and taste of catfish. I'm not afraid to try it again, though.

[Ed Hocken]

Anyway.

15. Zankou Chicken - Zankou Chicken

This here is a local LA institution, created by lebanese-armenians whose chicken is some of the best in town. This combined with the spooge-inducing garlic paste will knock your socks off, guranteed. Plus, you can get their t-shirts for $5.00.

[Chris Miller]

16. Gigantic Smoked Turkey Leg
I used to only find this at a renaissance fair, but years later it has become popular at fairs and street festivals. I'm talking about the turkey leg that is the size of Captain Caveman's club, that's been slow cooking in a smoker for the last 8 hours. The skin has come to a crisp, and under it lies pounds of delicious smokey turkey meat. I'll get one of these and walk around gnawing on it like a barbarian for an hour.

[Ed Hocken]

Mother of god! I could live off that thing for a day.

[Shit Dickface]

I could take one of those down in less than 30 minutes. I'd need to take off my shirt and have a gallon of ice water with it, a gym towel, and probably some wet-naps afterward, but I could swing it.

[Abraham Smashington]

I could take one of those down in less than 30 minutes. I'd need to take off my shirt and have a gallon of ice water with it, a gym towel, and probably some wet-naps afterward, but I could swing it.

30 mins? We eat those in under 15 at the ren faire.

[Matt]

I'll be eating one of those at our Ren Fest this Saturday.

[Shit Dickface]

Well, I gotta actually have that shit in my hand first before I can ballpark it better.

[Abraham Smashington]

I usually have two of those before lunch.

[Chris Miller]

If I sit down at a table it's gone in ten minutes, however, I prefer to walk the grounds with it, gnawing occasionally.