Fried Kool-Aid may be the unhealthiest food at the San Diego County fair this summer. But so far, fans say they love fried Kool-Aid.
A San Diego man has created an all new way to increase your waistline at the county fair this summer: Fried Kool-Aid.
"Chicken" Charlie Boghosian wondered if dropping the brightly-colored sugary mix into the fryolator would result in anything edible. After several attempts at home, Mr. Boghosian says he got the technique right and now is serving up fried Kool-Aid balls at the San Diego County Fair out of his Chicken Charlie food stand.
The balls look like red donut holes, and while some say they also taste rather like donut holes, other fair attendees seem to like the new junk food. One customer of fried Kool-Aid told Sign on San Diego, "It starts off tart and tangy, and then finishes really sweet... I love this stuff."
Boghosian is no stranger to fried candy concoctions. He claims to have invented more than 100 deep-fried treats to serve up at county fairs. In previous years he has created fried fare such as fried Klondike Bars, fried Pop Tarts, and fried Thin Mint Girl Scout Cookies.
The tangy red dough balls have really taken off, doing much better than Chicken Charlie's previous new products. Over the fair's opening weekend, the food stall quickly went through its first 150 pounds of Kool-Aid powder and 1,500 pounds of flour-although the rest of the ingredients are top secret.
Perhaps Boghosian is hoping his invention will get picked up by KFC as the perfect dessert pairing for its "DoubleDown" chicken sandwich.
Source: The Christian Science Monitor, http:// www.csmonitor.com
Man-o-man! There really are no limitations to what can be battered up and cooked in a "fryolator." Just when you thought you'd heard it all, along comes yet another way to clog your arteries and send your blood sugar levels to an all-time high.
Considering I also now have to really watch my cholesterol, it would probably be best that I don't test sample this red-coated heart-attack-waiting-to-happen. So, if hundreds of fair-goers say it's delicious, we'll just have to take their word for it.
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