America's Wacky Fair Foods

By Justine Sterling, Food & Wine

Cotton candy, corn dogs and candy apples once ruled the midway at the local fair, but visitors now want food that's exotic--as long as it's on a stick, or more importantly, fried. From health-defying anomalies like fried dough injected with Pepsi to squirm-inducing chocolate-dipped scorpions, the new sideshow is food. Here, Food & Wine names America's wacky fair foods.

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