As soon as you set foot into the parking lot of a fair and make your way towards the gates, the sweet and savory aromas of the scrumptious food will hit you. You can immediately drift back to your childhood and remember the first time you tasted the delicious and timeless foods that fair goers have come to love. The moment of anticipation each year when you can become a child again and partake in the all time favorite festival foods of cotton candy, Italian sausage, funnel cakes, corn on the cob and candy apple is like no other.
To start the day off you need a big bag of cotton candy to munch on throughout the day. Who can resist a big ball of sugary fluff that melts in your mouth as soon as it hits your tongue? If you have never experienced the sticky fingers and pink or blue lips that come with cotton candy you are missing out. Next, you would have to be crazy to resist tasting an Italian sausage on a fresh toasted hoagie piled high with onions and peppers. The vendors at the fairs seem to have the cooking of these tasty sausages down to a science, always perfectly grilled and full of flavor and often big enough to share.
The Funnel Cake, often referred to as Elephant Ears, consist of dough fried to the perfect consistency covered in toppings like powdered sugar, chocolate and fruit. It is the ultimate of all the tasty treats offered at festivals and fairs, warm, sweet, and enticing. You may find it hard to eat just one, as each topping creates a completely new flavor experience for your taste buds. You can smell it cooking on the grill from afar, the hot sweet corn on the cob. They cook it over an open flame until it is grilled to perfection and then slather it with butter. Handed over to you on a stick wrapped in foil, you can enjoy it while you walk around but you may want to sit down to savor the sweet corn until the last bite.
Finally, you can end your day with the classic candy apple. You have tried to make them at home but you know that no one makes a candy apple better than the vendors do at the festivals and fairs. The apples are always large sweet and juicy and perfectly coated in the sweet candy coating. You can choose between the traditional candy coating or caramel and toppings like nuts and sprinkles. Choosing just one can be difficult, so why not grab a couple and take them home so that you can savor flavors of the fair for a few days to come.