Makes me want some arrancini. Rice balls filled with tomato sauce and mozzarella.
WOW! Amazing they could find any food to fry, what with the supply chain debacle hanging over our necks like the sword of Damocles.
Mmmmmmmmmmmm!
I can feel my arteries harden, just watching all those fried delights!
Oh, yeah…
Yoiks! His heart is gonna explode. It all looked pretty tasty.
The savory finalists include:
Crispy Crazy Corn — Fried sweet corn nuggets topped with pulled pork, pineapple slaw, jalapeño crema and cilantro.
Deep Fried I-35 — A sweet-and-savory kolache filled with brisket, peaches and Dr Pepper glaze.
Deep Fried Seafood Gumbo Balls — Fried bites loaded shrimp, chicken, blue crab meat, and andouille sausage and served with a side of dark roux sauce.
Lucky Duck Dumplin’ — A pastry filled with cream cheese, duck bacon and herbs
Pork Shots — Smoked sausage, wrapped in bacon, then stuffed with mac and cheese. The makers call it “a party in your mouth”.
Sweet finalists include:
Deep Fried Halloween — A large chewy pretzel bathed in candy corn syrup, covered in orange and white buttercream icing, then topped with marshmallow whip cream. The pretzel is then stacked with Halloween candy like Reese Piece, Mini-Twix,Orea crumbles, and candy corn.
The Armadillo — An ice cream sandwich made with two ‘dillo-shaped cookies made with a branding iron, then drizzled with cookie butter and dusted with sugar.
Brisket Brittle — Peanut brittle, but the peanuts have been replaced with smokey brisket.
Fernie’s Fried Toffee Coffee Crunch Cake — Chunks of cake doughnut topped with English toffee, crunchy almonds and sweet custard, then dipped into an egg batter and deep fried
Texas Pumpkin Poke Cake — Pumpkin cake covered in vanilla glaze, caramel syrup, and whipped cream, and dusted with a secret spice blend.
OK. You had me at the fried toffee coffee cake. A dietary disaster, but it looks gooood!
The last one I went to had deep fried beer. It was basically Guninnes in a ravioli. It was horrid.
Ill have the shrimp, onion rings, and hush-puppies, please.