Name: The State Fair Of Texas: Corny Dogs & Funnel Cake Cheeseburgers | Festival Foodies
Uploaded: 2020-11-21T18:25:06.000Z
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Skyler Bouchard: The State Fair of Texas sells over

Everyone in Texas will tell you that the corny dog

is the most delicious corn dog they've ever had.

along with some traditional saltwater taffy

For the past eight years, I've been traveling the world

I've taken everything I've learned to my kitchen,

for the best festival and fair foods in North America.

the longest-running fair in the entire country.

with over 2 million people attending each fall.

than almost any state fair in the country.

Karissa Condoianis: The State Fair of Texas was founded

We have hundreds of concessionaires out here

with thousands of food items on their menus.

Even if you're not from here, you know, as they say,

Skyler: I tried everything from fried butter

but I narrowed it down to three final contenders.

One of the reasons the State Fair of Texas is so famous

is because it debuted one of the most important

That year, the idea of a hot dog covered in corn

once they finally got people to try them.

We go through about 1,600 gallons of mustard.

I've heard people say that they've waited up to an hour,

Customer: They're actually hand dipped in cornbread batter.

And I know, it's a Southern thing, it's delicious.

There's none other that tastes like this.

Skyler: I grew up eating corn dogs all the time,

so I'm really excited to try the one and only corny dog.

All right, there's a lot of flavor happening here,

I can definitely see why people would wait hours

I'll be interested to see if it's really my favorite

And I have two other unique contenders to try.

and they still use old-fashioned methods and machines

after working at an amusement park as a kid.

making small pieces of taffy, which they called kisses.

And then he bought his own taffy-pulling machines

Sutter's Taffy quickly became extremely successful,

Tony King and his family bought the business

Tony King: So, we bring in 660-pound barrels of corn syrup,

and so we batch each pot with corn syrup, sugar,

and butter, and then we put it on our taffy pullers

to aerate it, and that's where we flavor it.

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