At fairs across the United States this summer, people will be eating some unusual food, but it looks like the Orange County Fair in Southern California will take the deep-fried cake when it comes to offering artery-clogging delicacies.
Vendor Chicken Charlie's — the purported inventor of the deep fried Oreo — is taking the ironic route by deep frying a Slim Fast bar, then topping it with chocolate sauce and powdered sugar. They will also serve up a pickle filled with peanut butter, dipped in corn dog batter, then fried. For those who enjoy mixing the highbrow with the low, there's the pièce de résistance: a $125 Twinkie topped with one ounce of caviar. "I'm a big seafood guy," Chicken Charlie's owner Charlie Boghosian told the Daily Pilot. "About a year ago, I tasted my first caviar and I liked it. Since then, whenever caviar came up, I wanted to taste it, learn it."
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