The US Presidential candidates are at the Iowa State Fair, which is apparently famous for having a huge selection of food-on-a-stick, and they’ve all been tucking in.

I think my experience is limited to ice lollies and the odd kebab, if that counts. However the list is at least eye-, if not mouth-watering!

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Iowa State Fair Food On-a-Stick
The 2015 Fair boasts more than 70 food options available on-a-stick:

Apple Pie On-A-Stick – NEW in 2015
Caprese Salad On-a-Stick
Chocolate Covered Chunky Bacon Maple Nougat On-a-stick
Chocolate Covered Cookies N Cream On-a-stick
Funnel Cake Sticks
Jumbo Toasted Marshmallow On-a-stick
Mexican Grilled Corn On-the-cob
Tater Dog On-a-stick
Fair Square (Original, Peanut Butter and Chocolate Marshmallow Malt flavors)
Bacon Wrapped Riblet
Bacon-Wrapped Smokies
Cajun Chicken
Cake Pops
Caramel Apple
Carmellows
Cheese
Chicken
Chocolate-Covered Cheesecake
Chocolate Covered Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough
Chocolate-Covered Deep Fried Cheesecake
Chocolate-Covered Ice Cream Cookie Sandwich
Chocolate-Covered Key Lime Dream Bar
Chocolate-Covered Peanut Butter Bar
Coconut Mountain
Corn on the Cob
Cornbrat (bratwurst dipped in corndog batter)
Corndog
Cotton Candy
Crazy Tater
Deep Fried Brownie
Deep Fried Sweet Corn Corndog
Deep-Fried Milky Way
Deep-Fried Snickers
Deep-Fried Twinkie
Double Bacon Corn Dog
Dutch Letter
Fruit (with yogurt dipping sauce)
German Sausage
Gluten Free Corndog – NEW in 2015
Golden Fried Peanut Butter and Jelly on a Stick – NEW in 2015
Griddle Stick (turkey sausage wrapped in a pancake)
Hard-Boiled Egg
Honey
Hot Bologna
Hot Dog
Hot Lips (breaded chicken breast smothered with hot sauce, served with blue cheese dressing)
Ice Cream Wonder Bar
Jalapeno Corndog
Kabob Combo
Kernel Kluster – NEW in 2015
Lamb Sausage (brat)
Monkey Tail (chocolate-covered banana)
Nutty Bar
Peanut Butter & Jelly
Pickle
Pineapple (fresh pineapple dipped in funnel cake batter and deep fried)
Pork Chop
Push-ups
Rainbow Popsicle
Rib Shack Cowboy
Rock Candy
Salad
Sesame Chicken
Shrimp Corndog
Smoothie
Soft Salted Chocolate Dipped Almond Pretzel
Spicy Shrimp
Teriyaki Beef
Toasted Coconut Caramel Cluster – NEW in 2015
Turkey Drumstick
Turkey Tenderloin
Twinkie Log (frozen Twinkie dipped in white chocolate and rolled in cashews)
Ultimate Bacon Brisket Bomb – NEW in 2015
Unicorn Lollipops
Veggie Corndog

Sauce

I’ve had deep fried chilli and ginger tarantula on a stick…

and cockroach

and scorpion

Tarantula was tastiest though

Lizard?

We have a winner;

Chocolate Covered Chunky Bacon Maple Nougat On-a-stick

No we have this as a challenger

Ultimate Bacon Brisket Bomb – NEW in 2015

Tarantula was tastiest though

+1

Cambodia?

At the tail end of last year I tried one and thought it was tastier than expected. Decided to bring back some in a bag. Didn’t even last until the end of the next night!

pig anus in Tokyo

Damper bread
[url=https://flic.kr/p/dAxi3z]Damper bread / stick bread[/url] by Matt Robinson, on Flickr

The classic smores are cooked on a stick does that count? Come camping with me and we will lay our a smoresboard of biccies, choccy and various mallows.
[url=https://flic.kr/p/cqVM4o]Smores[/url] by Matt Robinson, on Flickr

“Rat onna stick! Sausage inna bun! Two for a penny but i’m cuttin’ me own throat.”

chicken hearts, raw unripe mango+garlic, and shark (all on different sticks, not the same one)

also had armadillo, tapir, and huge rodent kebabs, but that got removed from the stick to go in a big dish of sauce.

never managed to find iguana kebabs, but we tried.

I also forgot the classic – fresh caught salmon on a stick, toasted over the fire.
No photographic evidence provided, as I may not have had a rod license. 😉

I have no idea why America has an obesity problem…

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VO6V5N0rxyQ[/video]

Beijing. Rather cruel, but rather tasty.

A friend had her facebook profile photo of eating a starfish on a stick 😀

Cheers, Rich

I love food on a stick! Never seen anything strange for sale but I had some really nice really hot squid legs in Gaungou.

Cambodia?

At the tail end of last year I tried one and thought it was tastier than expected. Decided to bring back some in a bag. Didn’t even last until the end of the next night!

Aye, a quick rest stop on a bus~ there was vendors with trays of them like this

then when you said how many you wanted, they popped them on a skewer.

Damned tasty… when you think about it, it’s quite similar to sea food really~ kinda prawny/crabby vibe.

The BBC article I read on the same pork-chop-on-a-stick-eating-hopefuls earlier mentioned deep fried butter on a stick as also available at said fair, frankly that’s just wrong.

Not strange but amazing:

http://www.chiponastick.co.uk

Any opportunity to do the “Egg-Uh-Master” again! 🙂
(disclaimer – I do not own one, and nor have I tried it’s “produce”)

And for those who missed out first time:

http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/08/street-food-from-taiwan-pigs-blood-cake.html

This looks incredible I reckon – anyone tried it? 🙂

Not that different from black pudding , is it? That just swaps the oatmeal for rice.

I’ve eaten witchetty grub in Oz, which was buttery-eggy in taste

>>>As an afterthought, what the hell is “Deep-fried twinkie” from the list above? I thought twinkie was a euphemism for ladybits?

Tornado Potato – not that unusual in itself, but quite cool (and all the more fun for this gif…)

Not me, but my brother had Chicken’s Arseholes on a Stick in Thailand.

Not that different from black pudding , is it? That just swaps the oatmeal for rice.

Not that different no. You’ve got me thinking actually – wonder what it would be like to just get black pudding and do this bit ‘bathed in a pork soy broth (which is subtly sweet), rolled around in peanut flour, and topped with cilantro’.

Probably caviare, nasty stuff.

Nicest stuff, Lamb mint skewers from the local’ish butcher.

A friend had her facebook profile photo of eating a starfish on a stick

Chocolate?

Do they do different flavours ?