State Fair season means millions of people perusing prize-winning livestock and handicrafts while noshing on tasty bits of high-calorie goodness on a stick. Each year, states up their impaled-food game with offerings more fried and bacon-wrapped than the year before.
The Iowa State Fair just released its list of the 50 foods on a stick attendees can indulge in when the festivities kick off Aug. 9.
Chocolate-Covered Chocolate Chip Cannoli - NEW in 2012
Chocolate-Covered Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Pop - NEW in 2012
Fruit (with yogurt dipping sauce) - NEW in 2012
Double Bacon Corn Dog (a hot dog wrapped in bacon, deep fried, dipped in bacon-bit enriched batter and deep fried again to golden perfection) - NEW in 2012
Bacon
Chocolate-Covered Frozen S'more
Fried Butter
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Chocolate-Covered Deep Fried Cheesecake
Griddle Stick (turkey sausage wrapped in a pancake)
Cake Pops
Fair Square
Chocolate-Covered Tiramisu
Chocolate-Covered Turtle Mousse Bar
Twinkie Log (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews)
Octodog (hotdog in the shape of an octopus)
Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Bar
Chocolate-Covered Key Lime Dream Bar
Carmellows
Pickle
Pork Chop
Corn Dog
Cheese
Cajun Chicken
Sesame Chicken
Carmel Apple
German Sausage
Teriyaki Beef
Corn on the Cob
Cotton Candy
Veggie Corndog
Turkey Drumstick
Nutty Bar
Hot Bologna
Chicken
Monkey Tail (chocolate-covered banana)
Honey
Ice Cream Wonder Bar
Deep-Fried Snickers
Deep-Fried Milky Way
Deep-Fried Twinkie
Breakfast Lamb Sausage (brat)
Deep-Fried Ho-Ho
Deep-Fried Cupcake
Dutch Letter
Chocolate-Covered Cheesecake
Pineapple (Fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried)
Hot Lips (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing)
Cornbrat (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter)
Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich
Rock Candy
Salad
Hard-Boiled Egg
Unicorn Lolipops
Rainbow Popsicle
Push-ups
Turkey Tenderloin