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Doughnut burger, fried butter, new foods at state fairs - USATODAY.com
INDIANAPOLIS — The Hoosier family behind last year's chocolate-covered bacon at the Indiana State Fair is at it again.
Their newest offering? A burger served between two Krispy Kremes, known simply as the doughnut burger.
Veteran concessionaire Dennis Reas said that if his family wants to survive selling novelty fair food, he must think of new products every year to keep the customers coming back.
"You just have to have something new to keep people entertained," said Reas, 53, as fair visitors circled his stands around lunchtime. "Every year we try to come up with something new."
And it seems to be working — even if the $6.50 burger and another new offering, deep-fried butter, produced almost as many questions as orders from the first customers of the 17-day fair.
Visitors can sample a hog's trough of oddball fair foods: deep-fried sushi, deep-fried dill pickles, deep-fried candy bars, chocolate-covered popcorn balls, root-beer marinated ribs and the garbage burger — a pork patty covered with pulled pork on a bun. But it was the deep-fried butter and doughnut burgers that drew the customers and the "just curious."
"That's awesome," said Stacey Hine, 32, after she took the first bite of her burger topped with bacon. "Seriously, that is so good."
Blake Reas freezes the butter and covers it in cinnamon before cutting it into cubes and frying it in something that's been at the fair for years: funnel cake batter.
only america homies, only america....
INDIANAPOLIS — The Hoosier family behind last year's chocolate-covered bacon at the Indiana State Fair is at it again.
Their newest offering? A burger served between two Krispy Kremes, known simply as the doughnut burger.
Veteran concessionaire Dennis Reas said that if his family wants to survive selling novelty fair food, he must think of new products every year to keep the customers coming back.
"You just have to have something new to keep people entertained," said Reas, 53, as fair visitors circled his stands around lunchtime. "Every year we try to come up with something new."
And it seems to be working — even if the $6.50 burger and another new offering, deep-fried butter, produced almost as many questions as orders from the first customers of the 17-day fair.
Visitors can sample a hog's trough of oddball fair foods: deep-fried sushi, deep-fried dill pickles, deep-fried candy bars, chocolate-covered popcorn balls, root-beer marinated ribs and the garbage burger — a pork patty covered with pulled pork on a bun. But it was the deep-fried butter and doughnut burgers that drew the customers and the "just curious."
"That's awesome," said Stacey Hine, 32, after she took the first bite of her burger topped with bacon. "Seriously, that is so good."
Blake Reas freezes the butter and covers it in cinnamon before cutting it into cubes and frying it in something that's been at the fair for years: funnel cake batter.
only america homies, only america....
