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Genius-on-a-Stick
It's that time of year when finding cutting edge eats means turning your back on the hoi-polloi and shaking hands with the common man. Forget your foams and chuck your sous vide, it's all about the stick.
The pioneers of fry-technology and stuffing-science are in high demand as we ponder what's in store for 2007. How do they get that hotdish to stay on the stick? Is there anyone mad enough to attempt to engineer a Sloppy Joe for Stick Gastronomy? Hell yeah. Last year's innovators succeeded and seem willing to push the envelope one more time in a that risky courtship of fanny-packers and the stroller mafia.
New Food for 2007
Axel's: Sloppy Joes OAS (on-a-stick)
Blue Moon Dine-In Theater: Peanut-butter hot dog
Bridgeman's: kickin' it old-school with old fashioned ice cream sodas
Coasters: Deep fried crumb coated apple fries
Famous Fave's: Pork knuckle sandwich and Kool-Aid pickles (I'm glad they changed from last year's pickles which tasted like greasy relish)
French Meadow Bakery: Rocky road scones OAS
Fried Fruit: a newbie stand, offering batter dipped fried fruit
Mike's Hamburgers: Deep fried hot dog wrap OAS (yawn)
O'Garas: Deep fried corned beef and cabbage OAS (pass me a Harp)
Old English Fish and Chips: calamari (doused with malt vinegar, brilliant!)
Potato Skins: Buffalo chips and cheese
Rajun Cajun: Breakfast bread bowls and jambalaya
Sausage Sister and Me: Introducing the Uffda Brat...Norske sausage wrapped in lefse (yah sure, you betcha)
Scotch Eggs: Butterscotch cake OAS
SPAM Burgers: SPAM burgers and fried SPAM curds (this one will garner all the buzz from the media foodiphiles)
Tejas: BLP (bacon, lettuce, pico de gallo) quesadilla
Ultimate Confections: S'mores OAS
West Indies Soul Cafe: Fried plantains
2 Reader Comments
Steph:
With the Great Get-Together putting up some direct, in-your-face competition, Muffuletta has to counter in the only way we know how: Lofton Ridge Wild Boar Sausage dredged in sweet potato batter and deep fried.... on a stick. We serve it with stone fruit chile sauce.
Take that, Alligator Fritters.
Not bad for a bald guy from Winona. You continue to kick ass.
SM
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