Today was our annual trip to the Strawberry Festival in Plant City, FL. It’s our annual “undo all our exercise day” where we eat all sorts of horribly delicious foods that should probably come with a free trip to the emergency room. Here are the major highlights. Click the thumbnails to view the larger versions. The more complete gallery is available here.
Our favorite new item was the Fried Jalapeno Cheddar. It had that perfect amount of bite and heat, and was nice and gooey.
Emily is obsessed with cheese fries – but not just any cheese fries. They have to meet certain requirements. One of those is that they must use cheese sauce – not real melted cheese. Yes, she’s kind of weird. So, we had to walk around looking for the perfect cheese fries. Then we came across the buckets. Giant “x-treme” buckets of fries covered in neon orange cheese sauce. It took six people, but we finished them.
Last year, we had noticed a stand selling tacos. We had skipped it, but decided to take a look at their offerings this year. We joked that they might have deep fried tacos. Instead, we saw that they had “tacos in a bag”. They were basically just a frito pie in a bag.
The real highlight though, was the deep fried butter. Yes. Deep Fried Butter. I assume the butter is frozen (or at least chilled) and then battered and fried. Of course, the heat of the oil just still melts the butter inside the dough. The butter itself (at least here) is flavored with cinnamon. It was better than I had expected, but we didn’t even finish our order of 4 pieces. The real problem with eating it is that if you bite into the dough too far, you just pop the pocket and the melted butter squirts out everywhere. You have to either bite carfully, or just shove the whole thing into your mouth and eat it whole. Of course, doing that will probably just send your heart into immediate shock.
Oh, there’s also this.
DEEP FRIED BUTTER! DAMN, I’m jealous!