Fair Food

Guide Note

Fair food is often served on a stick. It is available at fairs and carnivals and usually eaten while walking around. Popular foods include ice cream cones, cotton candy, funnel cake and deep-fried candies, meats and desserts.

Fast Facts

1. Introduced in 1904 St. Louis World's Fair
2. First called "Fast Food"
3. First fair food were hot dogs and ice cream
4. Deep-fried Coca-Cola was introduced in 2006
5. The word "fair" comes from the Latin term "faeriae", meaning "to feast"

1. Push a bamboo skewer into each unwrapped Snickers bar and freeze it a few hours or overnight.
2. Beat together 3 eggs and 1/4 cup sugar. Slowly add 2 cups of milk to the mixture while beating.
3. Combine 3 2/3 cups flour, 1/2 teaspoon salt and 2 teaspoons baking powder. Add in to the wet mixture and mix until uniform.
4. Heat a deep fryer or pot of oil to 375 degrees Fahrenheit.
5. Dip the Snickers bars into the batter and up to the exposed skewer and set it in the oil until it's golder brown.^{1 2}

• Cheesecake on a stick (6 ounce serving):
  • 655 calories
  • 47 grams of fat
• Candied Apple (7 ounce serving):
  • 332 calories
  • 0.5 grams of fat
• Cotton Candy (6 ounce serving):
  • 177 calories
  • 0 grams of fat
• Fried Oreo (1.1 ounce serving):
  • 98 calories
  • 5.7 grams of fat
• Fried Snickers (5 ounce serving):
  • 444 calories
  • 29 grams of fat
• Fried Twinkie (2 ounce serving):
  • 420 calories
  • 34 grams of fat
• Funnel Cake (8.3 ounce serving):
  • 760 calories
  • 44 grams of fat
• Soft Pretzel (4.5 ounce serving):
  • 340 calories
  • 2 grams of fat³