Most DANGEROUS Food in America!! (State Fair of Texas)

this is the most dangerous food in america this is fried butter [Music] beer food it's greasy cheesy i love provolone i love you too and anything but healthy how many calories does this have that's not a question you just eat it and that is why i'm here welcome to the state fair of texas today i'm on the search for the most bizarre strange food you'll find anywhere right here in the state of texas this is the state fair of texas a breeding ground for daring culinary experimentation it's like candy with beef in it am i gonna actually taste the beef of course including america's latest unhealthy high calorie obsession you invented fried butter invented fried butter no one's going to contest this online i dare them time to see which of these foods will become the next american staple let's go at the state fair of texas when you check out fair food menus you'll sometimes notice these rare badges that means these foods are contest winners recognized as being the most delicious or creative by the big tech's choice award it works like this each year there are 10 nominees and one winner in the categories of best savory food best sweet food and most creative food here ruth has won four awards including two just this year ruth you ready yes i want to give you a handshake but i don't want to throw you off balance spend your shake all day first of all you're almost 88 years old people who retire at 65 are they losers well i wouldn't say okay i'm sorry no no her shop opened at this fair in 1988. back then she was specializing in tamales over time her menu expanded and so did her accolades we made the finalists for the savory and the sweet brisket brittle it's my sweet crispy crazy corn the savory and they both were finalists they're for both finalists i want to talk about some of these menu items because i am so excited the first thing i saw on your menu was the brisket brittle yes now i've had peanut brittle and i love peanut brittle but what is a brisket brittle instead of the peanuts add the brisket oh flavorable oh yes can you do that in anything could i do that with a snickers bar take out the peanuts and put in brisket peanut brittle it's a hard candy usually embedded with peanuts here instead of peanut they use texas beef brisket am i gonna actually taste the beef of course [Music] peanut brittle to me it's like a christmas confection i'm here in texas and this brittle is filled with brisket hold on is this brisket it's very brittle did i mention it's in a boot i'm trying to find the most brisket piece you can see little fossilized pieces of brisket inside [Music] it's sweet but crunchy and then it's sticky after that and the briskets release their own flavor crystal filled with smokiness and barbecue-ness like calvin now just adding this to the end of word towards this make any sense this is brilliant i never would have thought to put these two together they took a holiday treat and they texas and fight it this year the brisket brittle was nominated for best sweet food they were also nominated for this unusual take on the taco that's so state fair friendly you can walk with the cone and you have a full meal okay how many bites do you think that will take me it's a pretty good meal i have a pretty big mouth ruth's taco coat starts with two scoops of cilantro rice placed deep inside the cone then a pop of black beans layered on top of that barbacoa a type of slow cooked beef next a scoop of pico de gallo then a sprinkle of cheese a lime wedge and green jalapeno sauce this is about kind of a bizarre food delivery usually a taco is gonna be inside of a taco when i was in korea a while ago i had a pizza cone and it was just a very doughy cone that held all the pizza ingredients but here this is a taco cone it's based on a hard shell on top they have a lime brits nice [Music] oh the meat is so smoky and rich this is delicious you have to be careful because some of the wet taco ingredients will start rushing down that's why they have that on there but i wanted to show you what there's more layers it just keeps going forever you got some nice beans a couple other things to note about the taco cone this costs 18 that's not nothing i might have to put a second mortgage on the house that i don't own at all actually but i gotta say for eighteen dollars they're not skimping this is legitimately heavy it's super fun to eat but you gotta be quick you wait too long all those beautiful juices are gonna leak out the bottom fair experts here know some of the best food is hiding inside this is our first time being indoors so far and i like it because of the air conditioning here in texas this food court has 27 different vendors all with their own unique venues so competition is fierce you can't start with corn dogs that's been here for 60 years you can't have funnel cakes pizza but true heroes rise up and thrive in the face of adversity over time hidden gems have come to reveal themselves chris put her there hi meet chris owner of scrumptious pie shakes how long have you been here 10 years it took him four years of trying to be accepted as a vendor when you apply do you apply with like one food or a whole concept you apply it with a concept but the concept has to be anchored in something unique our unique item in our restaurant is pie shakes make a shake out of a piece of pie what do you put it in a blender they put in a blender with ice cream yeah exactly i might need to get that too yeah let's talk about the texas easter egg this is what caught my eye and this is why we're here today this was in the semifinals this year of the big tech's choice award for the savory category that's correct okay the texas easter egg after looking at it you may not be surprised to know this did not plop out of a bird or an easter bunny for that matter texas easter egg is essentially fried jalapeno popper with a few extra things wow and you fit all that inside that's right instead it's a blend of cream cheese cheddar cheese beef brisket bacon green chilies jalapenos and tex-mex seasoning all that is formed into an oblong egg shape next dip the egg in egg yolk then coat it in a layer of breadcrumbs and italian seasonings the marketing is brilliant this could have been anything it could have been a cube it could have been a rhombus you chose the egg shape and then you put kind of a pastel color on top how do you think of that part i'm just a genius okay on the side a drink this is a shake that they put a whole pie into and i was hoping to see the whole pie go into a blender but they blended it off-premises unfortunately oh wow it's so thick like a wendy's frosty but it tastes so much better oh hi there's a little bit of caramel it's creamy it's chocolatey which is odd because the color is like an off-white that set me up perfectly for my savory treat right here the ranch is so bright it's pink yellow blue i mean this is what you would color an easter egg with normally it's kind of like a big meat oval whoa oh i taste cream cheese jalapeno bacon meat then there's just like this little bit of an exterior that's kind of crunchy it's just holding everything together like a thin breading there's some strong ranch flavors in there too even more ranch remedies [Music] i think i overdid the wrench it looked great but that was a lot of ranch it's one of the most unique foods i've ever seen it's incredible that they've done this by hand they take these kind of loose creamy ingredients bread them and fry them while making them pretty much look like eggs i mean it's kind of a messed up egg like if i was a chicken i'd probably lay something like that that'd be my best effort let's go our next strange food science lab came up with a menu item so good it won two out of three categories in the same year another food vendor another food check it out guys check it out it was created by this guy tom grace the owner of pizza and funnel cake fingers a 28 year old business that started exclusively at the fair but now operates as a catering company during the off season their pretzel used to be their hot selling item guys that was until they invented this is one of the most unique foods i've ever seen the funnel cake bacon queso burger five words one great food it's a burger that contains a freshly grilled beef patty and crispy bacon but instead of a typical bread bar they make their own burger-sized funnel cake buns everybody loves funnel cake funnel cake is like a fair classic it's fried dough and it's a dessert but that's a funny thing this has won an award for best savory food so i don't know how they decided how to distinguish it is it sweet is it savory it's a little bit of both next the funnel cake a burger patty and the bacon are doused with queso a liquid tex-mex cheese dip finally sprinkle the whole thing with powdered sugar i'm gonna pick it up okay yes we have lift off [Music] one pro tip from an amateur if you breathe in while you're taking a bite you will choke to death and die and rest in peace i'm gonna squeeze it together so i can try to get my mouth around it i see cheese beef bacon and funnel cake in one bite i'm going for it don't breathe in don't breathe [Music] i dropped a little bit oh lordy mmm there's so much happening right now that bacon is juicy right here one side powdered sugar the other side queso how does that make you feel conflicted not me that's delicious no no this costs 13 i've already dropped three dollars of it i need to be careful there's another good bite right here check this out we got beef bacon we have the bun still intact this is why i come to state fairs for experiences like this you're not gonna find this at a mainstream burger chain they're gonna do a bunch of r d they're gonna find out that frank from oklahoma doesn't really like the crunch because it cuts the roof of his mouth and then they're going to change everything but here they don't care about frank frank can go back to oklahoma we're in texas our next unique food creation is something so unhealthy i can't even believe it exists i'm talking about fried butter abel yes i'm back hey welcome back brother i came here yesterday with calvin and we tried their famous pb and j powdered sugar will choke you every time made and invented by abel gonzalez jr the owner of this year's stand today i'm on the search for the best and most bizarre foods i'm talking fried butter fried butter that's gonna be my main course i heard you also have fried coke from colombia no not that kind of coke coca-cola like coca-cola coke how do you fry a liquid it took me a little bit because you know i'm not the smartest person in the world that you can't put a liquid inside a hot fryer or else you have some sort of an explosion you get burnt a little bit you've tried this removal i've tried it i trial and error here he starts with the dough mixed with coke flavoring and coke syrup that dough gets deep fried and topped with whipped cream finally cinnamon sugar and a wee slice of strawberry for a heavy hit of vitamin c here diet i almost said diet coke i wish oh my god what if you made this with coke zero it would have zero calories this is not that this is fried coke this has been topped with whipped cream they put a strawberry slice and i dropped it produce is very expensive this time of year oh abel what i don't know how he's doing this this is some sorcery this is blowing my mind it's basically a bready bread but there's something more special than that there are some deep fizzy coca-cola flavors inside how is that possible i don't know i'm trying to deconstruct it and understand it but it's bending my mind i don't know how he did it i mean look inside it just looks like bread i don't even know where coke gets its flavor from i do believe they have coke mines in africa it's very controversial but that's not why we're even here we're here for the unhealthiest food in america i want to know when you started out what was the first menu item that you had that made you stand out i was just trying to do everything that i could to make something stick and pretty much nothing was sticking until fried pb and j and then fried butter i invented fried butter you invented fried i invented fried butter no one's going to contest this online i dare them you are oozing with confidence and a little bit of sweat a little bit it has two ingredients a butter cube and dough the butter is placed in the center of the dough to form a dough ball that gets deep fried for just a few minutes top it with honey and cinnamon sugar and this heart-stopping buttery biscuit is ready to go it's become like a state fair staple you go to any fair they're going to have fried butter so people are just copying what you did you used to bother me but now fried butter is going to outlive me and that's pretty cool i like it especially if you keep eating fried butter sorry that was too honest i'm sorry that was harsh i know you're not supposed to wait too long they give you four of them it seems like a good deal for about eight bucks fried butter at the state fair of texas here we go oh hot [Music] is the butter completely broken down and melted and like liquefied or is it so when you bite into it you're going to squirt butter oh there's sugar on top there's honey on top there's a major sweetness factor but inside that butter is bursting out in your mouth well mainly in my mouth wait is it in your mouth too [Music] that was it that was the moment it gushed everywhere that butter you could dip crab legs into that butter it was very hot just hot enough it didn't burn my mouth off i still have all my taste buds intact that is delicious i don't know if you guys are butter fiends like me i love butter and it's gotten me into a little bit of trouble in my life here and there i've gone to weddings where i probably have been judged by how much butter i was putting on my dinner rolls and i thought i was at a wedding and it was all free and i didn't think it was that big of a deal here this invention of his is gonna outlive him and it's gonna outlive basically anybody who eats this type of food for obvious reasons on to the next location [Music] everything today has built up to this moment right here i'm here to talk about your savory balls all right meet greg his parents norma and robert parrish earned their booth here in 1985. gourmet roy out 99 years after the first fair took place in dallas it all started with popcorn my dad opened a popcorn store and over time we just introduced unique items to the menu but you guys have a lot more accolades than that yeah craig has a long ball history starting with the fried chicken alfredo balls that were nominated for an award but didn't win in 2019 well this year he's bringing home gold twice we've won two awards for uh most creative and best tasting savory for our deep fried seafood gumbo balls two of three awards 66 of the total available awards right gumbo is a heavily seasoned stew famous in new orleans it combines several varieties of beet and seafood i got to see it with the gumbo queen myself where's your recipe book oh it's in there here instead of the stew he takes all the ingredients from the recipe including rice chicken panko bread crumbs a homemade roux shrimp and andouille sausage he mixes it all together and rolls it into a ball how do you keep that bound together with the combination of the rice the roux and the panko bread crumbs it creates an adhesive for the meat and everything to stick together and from that point you just throw it in the fryer well no no coat the ball with flour then an egg wash then treat it in some panko bread crumbs before frying has it helped you look very busy yes business has been booming are you guys able to keep up we've been prepared for it our goal was to have a hundred thousand gumbo balls made by the opening day so we have been working very hard since july wow finally a miniature cup of gumbo stew is served on the side this is our final meal today a bizarre food indeed a stew that has been turned into a fried ball as we tour the basket we have some actual soup with the crab legs in it tabasco that is not ketchup tabasco saltines because a lot of people like to put saltines in the soup and then over here we have fried okra oh that is delicious i don't know what seasonings they put on there it's not just okra and bread it's got some delicious flavors coming through here a bit of gumbo i've got a bay leaf still in the soup and i'm gonna give this a little bit of a sip oh wow that's so rich oily and savory tastes like a little bit more like a condensed gumbo the first thing i notice about these balls is the heft there's a lot of weight to them and these are not filled with air like laced potato chips i'm just gonna take a big bite and see what happens oh my god it's very salty it's very seasoned and there's just so much meat in there this is probably one of the most powerful balls i've ever held in my hands oh yes i love the crust on the outside it just gives it a little bit of a shell and you can crunch through that it's a really interesting good idea i think to be a winner to be a standout at a fair you have to have something that's a little bit familiar but a little bit new so they took something everybody knows and everybody loves gumbo and then they just kind of reconstructed it they changed the configuration i'm very proud of craig i love the story from the beginning to the end from selling popcorn to selling over 100 000 of these balls in one month at this state fair that's incredible so that is the most strange most bizarre unique food i could find here at the state fair of texas but for me there can only be one most unique strange lovely creation in my heart in fact it's a creation that nearly stopped my heart and that is fried butter fried butter knows how to take a perfect moment someone making fresh baked bread and putting on nice soft butter that's just barely melted that really specific moment that you only get to experience a few hundred times in your life they've narrowed it down to a special fair bite that you could purchase for only eight dollars best ever food review show is a small team of independent creators and everything we do here works because of you guys click the link in our description to join our patreon and receive exclusive benefits of peace just note when you buy this the talk is cl the talk is clicking and you serve two yes so why two and why not one big one i don't know i just thought of two balls you know i can't wait to try out these two items i'm gonna go do it now all right let's do it oh to get i was going to eat alone i had candles come on dude is there a dark room i mean it's dark-ish is there a camera in there a little bit maybe it's hidden then let's go craig thank you very much i can't wait to put your balls in my mouth i mean oh god no that's not right guys that is it for this one thank you so much for watching i will see you next time of peace and go up to big text oh he said peace he said it do you hear him you

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Id: DZ4FfkDF758

Length: 19min 12sec (1152 seconds)

Published: Wed Nov 03 2021