Wearing our strawberry hats
I went to the Florida Strawberry Festival yesterday with a couple of friends, and while they apparently have concerts and pig races and a fairway and crafts and all types of other stuff, we went for the food:
Deep fried Pepsi was concentrated Pepsi syrup fried in dough. Eating this was like having all the bite of a Pepsi in one squirt. It was weirdly appealing. Deep fried butter was amazing – a frozen ball of butter is coated in batter and then deep fried. The butter melts, so when you take a bite, you are essentially drinking hot, delicious butter. I can’t think of anything better than that.
Deep Fried Pepsi and Deep Fried Butter
The Krispy Kreme burger was a heart attack waiting to happen, and I can’t imagine eating a whole one by myself. You take two hot, fresh Krispy Kreme glazed doughnuts, and slap a thin burger patty with cheese and bacon in between. The sweet and salty combination made this our favorite food of the entire day.
Krispy Kreme Burger
Take salty, crispy Hormel bacon and a chocolate dipping sauce with the consistency of a fondue, and you have a winner. The chocolate dipped bacon was just a better variation on the whole “French Fry in the Frosty” thing that all of us have tried at some point.
Chocolate Dipped Bacon
No visit to the Strawberry Festival is complete without some strawberry shortcake. The strawberries are the freshest you could possibly find, and the shortcake is soft and moist. Definitely a favorite, even if it’s simple.
Strawberry Shortcake
In conclusion: We drove an hour and a half to spend three hours eating some of the unhealthiest foods known to mankind and managed to avoid doing anything at all socially relevant or participatory at the same time. All in all, win win.
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I was a cute kid. What the fuck happened?
Well . . . ummm . . . so that backfired
oy. my tummy hurts just looking at that!
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@Maddie Marie, as in, you want to eat all of that?
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The Krispy Kreme burger just made me vomit a little in my mouth.
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@Andria, in a good way, I’m sure. It’s awesome.
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Twitter: kimt205
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OMG that cheeseburger. My arteries say no, but my taste buds say YES, YES, over and over again YES !
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@Kim, you should at least try it!
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Gross.
Ew.
And gross.
And also? Bacon should only be dipped in maple syrup or egg yolk.
And also also, strawberries are good but the cake stuff is icky. I can’t t stand it
Cute hats though
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@bluepaintred, it’s not gross. It’s good. Don’t be a hater!
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@Avitable, the pepsi syrup really did me in. One time, way back in high school I actually had a job and part of my job was changing the syrup canisters for the pop machine, the syrup, unmixed with the carbonated water shit is soooooo strong, its tart and disgusting and I cant see how deep frying it would help!
*shiver*
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Twitter: ellemmes
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Bacon and chocolate? Is that even legal? I’d try the Krispy Kreme burger. I love sweet and salty!
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@Lisa, it was a perfect combination.
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All kinds of wrong (except for the strawberry shortcake), but only Americans would deep fry butter. Ya gotta love it!
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@Bonnie B., we’re inventive over here!
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@Bonnie B.,
You would be amazed at the amount of food the Scottish folk deep fry. Deep fried Mars bars, Deep Fried Pizza, Deep Fried burger (yuck), fried ice cream, deep fried pies, sausages, fish etc. My husband is a Scot and he misses it at times. I wouldnt mind trying the butter for some odd reason lol.
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I’ve only had one of those combinations before. Carnies are more creative these days.
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@Valerie, I had never heard of deep fried butter until I got there.
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I can’t even force myself to try a deep fried oreo or Mars bar and those have been around for a long time. It’s just so blatantly unhealthy I can’t justify eating it.
But out of curiosity, with the band on your stomach, were you sick afterwards? I’m not trying to be a hyper critical douche, I’m just curious as to how it works when you consume things that are so rich.
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@Lilacspecs, I only ate small samplings of everything, and rich food doesn’t upset my band at all. Some people have that affect, but for me it’s only really quantity that makes me sick. If I ate too much, I might have felt that way.
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Twitter: hellohahanarf
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can i get a heads up as to the festival dates next year so that i can schlep my ass down there? that food is totally worth the trip.
although i really need to make fun of you for having that surgery and working so had to lose the weight only to have you heat a krispie kreme burger and fried everything. nutjob!
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@hello haha narf, well, I didn’t eat all of that – I only ate samples of everything. We were buying them one at a time and sharing them!
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So, how’s the diet going? I had asparagus, brown rice, and grilled tuna for dinner last night, so if you under-fat me then I shall have to kill you.
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@Grant, it’s going great! Everyone gets to cheat occasionally. I probably still ate less overall than you did yesterday.
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Aw for jaysus sake, you Americans are mad!! That all sounds disgusting not like the lovely bland food you get over here!!
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@J from Ireland, I’ve heard the horrible rumors about Irish food.
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Twitter: Faiqa
, March 14th, 2010: 3:10 PM
@J from Ireland, You know, we go to this Irish restaurant over here all the time, and I’m sure it’s not authentic, but I love the food there!!
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Twitter: blondefabulous
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Of all that, I’d only eat the strawberry shortcake. And that’s saying something since I am allergic to the cake it’s served on!
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What? The hat wasn’t edible?
My stomach heaved a little at the KK Burger.
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Fast (and fashionable) friends find fair: fried food, fried fat, fried fructose. Featured fruit? Fabulous!!
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@avatgardener, Marta miss mavatgardener making many muhahha
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@Marta, I was out of town for a month, and had limited internet access. hope to fix that for next year’s wanderings southward. it is good to be back.
Thanks for noticing.
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Twitter: poppycede
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*DROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL*
That is the BEST strawberry festival EVAR!
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Twitter: alotofnothing
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Nauseatingly delicious.
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I want to try and eat all of that, except maybe the fried pepsi. meh. We were going to go today but instead I’m playing hockey at 530 in Maitland at the RDV. The kids get to come watch so that’s more exciting to them. Even if the tem I’m subbing for is 0-12, perhaps my goaltending skills is what they need.
I want that burger though. Also, found Baconaise for sale($7) at Cavalari’s in Oviedo.
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Twitter: elizabethbarone
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So the only thing one can eat without hearing their arteries clogging is the strawberry shortcake?
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I would never try the Krispy Kreme burger. Doesn’t sound appealing whatsoever! I’d put the hurt on some strawberry shortcake, though.
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Twitter: missbritt
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The pictures alone are giving me chest pains.
You’re going to be the first lap-band patient ever to have a heart attack AFTER losing 100+ pounds. Seriously.
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I could definitely go for some strawberry shortcake right about now! Yummmmmmmm
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OMG so lusting over the strawberry shortcake. Looks amazing. mmm
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Twitter: themuskrat
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oh my.
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Twitter: Faiqa
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In Exodus, as the the Jews wander the desert, God sends down a sweet bread like food to sustain them as they search for the Holy Land. I am most definitely, absolutely, and positively sure that this food was Krispy Kreme donuts.
I mean, even though I don’t eat bacon, the state of my eternal salvation was momentarily put in flux at the site of that particular bacon cheeseburger.
I feel inspired…
Ode to Krispy Kreme Cheeseburgers:
“I would eat them with some cheese.
I would eat them on my knees.
I would eat them with some meat.
I would eat them in the street.
Alas that I cannot eat them with bacon,
For this my eternal soul would be forsaken.”
I know, I know. I’m like Shakespeare. But instead of love, human existence, or power, I choose to illuminate mankind on the existential nature of donuts.
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This must have been why I-4 was so jacked up yesterday. I wish I could have gone but I spent all my allowance on the Ren Faire at MOSI!
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Twitter: VerdantDude
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That Krispy Kreme burger doesn’t do anything for me. I’m not a huge fan of sweet with my savory. I prefer more savory.
But I might make an exception for the chocolate dipped bacon. Well done, sir!
Welcome to the Pork Side of the Force.
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Twitter: sleepynewmommy
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In Asshole, Oklahoma, we only get to eat like that once a year: state fair. So I’m totally jealous.
The chocolate bacon is one of my favorites! And the Krispy Kreme burger? Now I want to try it!
Must go in search of fair food now…
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okay, that is just grooooooss. All of it except the strawberry shortcake.
I think you should post that stuff on http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/
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Frosty + fries. I’d forgotten about this. I feel a craving coming on…
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The town I grew up in – Garden Grove, CA – had an annual strawberry festival. It’s been years since I’ve been, but I really enjoyed it.
The Utah State Fair has those deep fried confections. I tried a deep fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich and it was actually good. The deep fried Pepsi doesn’t sound good. Nothing about any heated up soda sounds good to me.
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Every visit to Florida I hit Parkdale Farms in Plant City for strawberry shortcake but am never there during the festival. I can’t imagine eating any of those things Blech
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Twitter: Zakary
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In Oklahoma, they have the ‘Chicken Donut’ sandwich. Fried chicken patty, American cheese squished between two glazed donuts. It’s delicious.
Also, I’ve had fried oreos,the fried Twinkies, fried Snickers courtesy of the OK State Fair. (Not all at the same time.)
Every thing pictured above is delicious and I would have eaten all of it. Ain’t no shame in my game.
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WOW, fried BUTTER? Bacon with chocolate dipping sauce? I gotta get out more. I have heard of the donut/burger – I hear Paula Deen came up with that one because there were no buns in her kitchen.
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