The Best and Worst Foods on a Stick at the Iowa State Fair

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The Best and Worst Foods on a Stick at the Iowa State Fair
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Not that you needed us to tell you this but… do not order the salad on a stick at a state fair, under any circumstance

with an exhaustive list of impaled food items . “People like stuff on a stick,” says Larry Fyfe, who has run concessions at the state fair for 50 years, and has sold novelty items like a deep-fried stick of butter... on a stick. “They can carry it around, eat it on the go.” According to Fyfe, putting a product on a stick can boost its sales by about 50 percent.

In all, Eater tried more than two dozen skewered items at the Iowa State Fair. It quickly became clear that while a stick is the natural home for some foods — shockingly, caramel-dipped pecan pie — not everything belongs on a stick .is the Iowa State Fair’s second-best-selling item, after the iconic corn dog. In the summer leading into the Iowa Caucus, presidential candidates usually take a crack at grilling a pallet of them for a now-traditional photo op.

Tucked away on the second floor of the Agriculture Building, the Salad Bowl stand was run by friendly, well-meaning people who had the unfortunate job of selling fresh vegetables at an event largely defined by deep-fried meat and dairy products. Thewas the move — tomatoes and fresh mozzarella take exceptionally well to being impaled and eaten off of a skewer — while the, however, is totally acceptable.

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