What not to eat.

August is beautiful here in Wisconsin. One thing that many folks around here love about August is the Wisconsin Start Fair.

Now, if you are not from around these parts, you might assume that the Wisconsin State Fair would be about cheese, or cows, or milk, or pig races. A true local would never make that mistake.

The Wisconsin State Fair is about eating.

In the old days, the creme puff was king. They'd go through about 2 gazillion creme puffs during the 10 day run of the fair.

But not anymore. Over the past several years there has been a race to take the craziest food possible, deep fry it, and sell it... on a stick.


Corn dogs are so 90's. In Wisconsin, deep frying and sticking foods has become an art form. And there's no shortage of culinary masterpieces to choose from.

There are 45 different sticked foods to choose from at the Fair, most of them deep fried. With offerings ranging from old favorites like deep fried twinkies, peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, and snickers bars to newer entries like deep fried macaroni and cheese on a stick, choosing which way you will clog your arteries is a the tough decision.

But the food making the biggest splash this year is the Chocolate covered bacon on a stick.

As for next year? Some of the top contenders, so far, are deep-fried cheeseburgers (with lettuce) and boston cream pie.

How many minutes of cardio would you need to do to burn those off? Let's just say if you had one dollar for every minute needed, you could almost pay off the national debt!