Speaking Volumes

I've subscribed to Nutrition Action Health Letter for years. The back page is usually devoted to food which Nutrition Action terms The Right Stuff (thumbs up) and Food Porn (thumbs down). A recent issue gave the up thumb to KFC's Grilled Chicken and a big thumb's down to Baskin-Robbins Sundae's which NA dubs Sundae Worst!

I can't help wondering what Nutrition Action would think of the new food addition to the Big E, the Craz-E Burger. Everyone knows that part of the fun of going to fairs is eating all the greasy food. French fries, fried dough, deep fried veggies, deep fried twinkies, clam fritters, mini donuts, melted cheese on anything, etc. New England's biggest fair, The Big E, which is running through October 4th this year has introduced some fair favorites over the years including the Big E Cream Puff and the Big E Éclairs. Is it just me or does the Craz-E Burger, consisting of a doughnut-bacon-cheeseburger, seem a bit over the top? You read that right. A cheeseburger topped with bacon, between two halves of a grilled glazed doughnut. I hear it costs $5, a bargain as fair food goes. Fairgoers are raving about this gooey masterpiece. Let me know if you're brave enough to eat one.

As for me I'm back to reading Nutrition Action Health Letter (available at Saxton B.). I'll let you know if the Craz-E makes the back page.

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Update 10/2/09 ~ Couldn't help sharing this news article as read in The Chronicle, Willimantic on 9/29/09. The article entitled The Big  E Food this Year is Craz-E by Ken Dixon from the Connecticut Post.

Dixon tells about Rosie Kruze and her husband, Blake, of Plainville whose candy booth in The Conecticut Building has been a real hit at this year's fair.   ($2.00), often selling out by 4PM. 

It's the PBP that really got me. What's that you ask? A peanut butter-bacon and provolone pizza. That's the claim to fame to Randy's Wooster St. Pizza, also housed in our state building. What's next, a PPP (peanut butter-pepperoni, and your choice of provolone or parmesean).

My opinion -  I'll pass on all!