You are what you eat
This actually sounds really tasty -- from the San Diego, CA
Union Tribune:
Fried Kool-Aid a hit at fair, Chicken Charlie says
The deep-fried Kool-Aid is selling like deep-fried hot cakes, according to their famed creator, "Chicken" Charlie Boghosian.
Chicken Charlie's is a staple of fried rations at fairs across the country. It sold 400 to 600 orders of deep-fried Kool-Aid per day the first weekend of the San Diego County Fair. That's about double the rate of previous debut items, Boghosian said.
"That's because it tastes so darn good," Boghosian said of the Kool-Aid.
The deep-fried novelty takes the shape of a doughnut-hole. There are five per order. That breaks down to as much as 9,000 balls of deep-fried Kool-Aid eaten over opening weekend.
Boghosian said Chicken Charlie's has already gone through 150 pounds of Kool-Aid powder and 1,500 pounds of flour. Chicken Charlie's debuted deep-fried Klondike Bars and Pop Tarts in past years.
So a one to ten ratio of kool-aid powder to flour for the batter.
One of my cooks at the bakery is from Alabama and makes deep-fried pickles from time to time -- those are delicious. We will have to try this sometime this summer...
Posted by DaveH at June 20, 2011 10:07 AM