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The Waffle Wagon shapes Belgian waffles around a stick and tops them with sweet goodies to create fudge puppies, one of the new food items at the Erie County Fair.
How should a fair food be? Fried to the point where it becomes unrecognizable? A nesting doll of disparate ingredients that somehow work, defying all odds? A colorful and photogenic bite of summer?
Maybe simply the same food we buy every year for a bite of nostalgia.
It’s hard to define because the definition keeps changing. Erie County Fair food vendors invent new menu items each year. Some are brand spankin’ new, while others are inspired by successful fair foods in other states.
At the Erie County Fair, which returns Aug. 7-18 at the Hamburg Fairgrounds, you’ll find around 500 foods, drinks and desserts. Twenty-six of them will be newbies. Food vendors with new items compete in the fair’s New Food Showdown, in which fairgoers vote online for their favorite new food and new sweet treat. Voting is open from Aug. 7-14.
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Here’s a closer look at new fair food – from the wacky to potential classics.
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Beyond Boba’s strawberry lemonade boba is a refreshing choice for a hot day at the fair.
Boba strawberry lemonade tea from Beyond Boba
Navigating the fair requires at least some time spent on hot, sunny pavement. It’s easier with a cold drink. Beyond Boba’s strawberry lemonade tea is the kind of beverage that tastes more like a necessity than a frivolous purchase on the fair’s warmer days. The boba pearls, vacuumed up by the straw with every sip, burst open with fruit juice when chewed.
Deep fried dilly dog from Red Carpet Amusements
No story on fair foods should fail to mention at least one unlikely fried concoction. The deep fried dilly dog is a beef hot dog core stuffed inside a somewhat hollow dill pickle, which is then breaded in panko batter and fried. It’s basically a corn dog in trouble, because it got itself into a pickle.
Deep fried cookie dough from The Big Freeze
Fried dough isn’t all that it seems at the Big Freeze. Served on a stick, a bead-like stack of fried dough bites are each filled with cookie dough. The cookie dough stays rich and dense without approaching finished cookie form, concealing a gooey marshmallow center.
Fudge puppies and corn waffle dogs from Waffle Wagon
Fudge puppies have long been an offering at fairs throughout the country. Mike Pierro, whose family owns Mineo & Sapio, has created his own version for the Erie County Fair in his new venture, Waffle Wagon. A fudge puppy is a Belgian waffle shaped like a thick sausage. It comes on a wooden stick then gets dressed in various sweet toppings, such as sweet glaze and colorful Fruity Pebbles. Also new is a corn waffle dog, similar to a corn dog except covered in corn waffle batter instead of fried. It gets extra credit for being easy to eat with one hand.
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Owner Linda Lund of Babcia’s Pierogi puts a Polish spin on the garbage plate for the Erie County Fair.
Polish garbage plate from Babcia’s Pierogi
Babcia’s never lets the fair pass by without inventing at least one new pierogi-based dish. Polish food fans will savor Babcia’s garbage plate, a dish of potato cheddar pierogi, caramelized onions, sour cream, shredded cheddar, cheese curds and Sadie’s hot relish. It’s also topped with a Polish goulash sauce, a meaty mixture of smoked kielbasa, ground beef, tomatoes, peppers and onion. Owner Linda Lund encrusts her pierogi in cornflake crumbs to achieve a French fry-like texture without deep frying.
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JMOLL Management’s new Pretzelo is a Buffalo-shaped pretzel served with cream cheese dip.
Pretzelo from JMOLL Management
The most Instagrammable new food is a salt-speckled, Buffalo-shaped pretzel about the size of a Frisbee called Pretzelo. It’s served with your choice of light, whipped cream cheese dips, in flavors such as Loganberry, local maple and rich chocolate.
Red hot candy apple pierogi from Babcia’s Pierogi
Every once in a while, a gimmicky food is so good that it deserves to shed its novel status and become a menu fixture. Let’s hope that’s the future for Babcia’s second new fair food, an apple pierogi a la mode. An apple-filled pierogi, again coated in crunchy, smashed cornflakes, sits at the bottom of the dish. A scoop of Nick Charlap’s light pink cinnamon ice cream is placed on top, followed by drizzle of sweet sauce and finished with whipped cream.
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Salvatore’s Pizza’s stuffed asiago gnocchi is a light but filling new food at the Erie County Fair.
Stuffed asiago gnocchi from Salvatore’s Pizza
For its 68th Erie County Fair, Salvatore’s Pizza is putting forth a lighter pasta dish – the kind of fair food that fills you up without weighing you down. Fluffy asiago-stuffed gnocchi is served in a caprese salad of cherry tomatoes, basil leaves and shredded mozzarella cheese in a brown butter sauce.
Summerween slush from Moose Joose Slush
Though the fair is often referred to as summer’s send-off, Moose Joose Slush is ready to jump ahead to Halloween (though in its defense, the drink is called Summerween, so there is some seasonal acknowledgement). A festive Jack O’Lantern cup holds an icy, syrupy orange Dreamsicle slush, topped with whipped cream, marshmallow cream and a whole orange creamsicle.
Sweet and spicy cheese puff fried pickles frpm Chester’s Gators & Taters
The fair now has its own equivalent to the Cheeto-dusted burrito that Lime House Sushi & Ramen brought to the Taste of Buffalo. A riff on regular fried dill pickle chips, which are quite simple in comparison, the new pickle chips are coated in crushed cheese puffs and nacho cheese, then drizzled with sweet and spicy sauce.
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Salvatore’s Pizza offers a new, sweet, deep-dish apple cinnamon pizza.
What else is new?
- Bacon-wrapped smoked jalapeño poppers by Chiavetta’s Catering Services.
- Deep-dish apple cinnamon pizza by Salvatore’s Pizza.
- General Tso’s chicken wings by Eastern Pearl.
- Graham Central S’more Magic ice cream sandwich on a stick with graham cracker flavored ice cream and bits of graham cracker, chocolate and marshmallow by Polar Bear Homemade Ice Cream.
- Fried catfish and collard greens from Dirty Bird Chicken and Waffles.
- Honey butter deep fried chicken bites and French fries by goldenKdo.
- Loaded colossal onion topped with cheddar cheese sauce, bacon bits and onion sauce by Funtime Foods.
- Mermaid Dippin Dots float with vanilla Dippin Dots, blue raspberry ice, lemon lime soda and a mermaid gummy by Ohio Dots.
- Pork belly al pastor tacos by JMOLL Management.
- Pulled-pork topped Piggyback Mac by Brody’s Mac & Cheese.
- Spicy chicken enchiladas with yellow rice by LLB Concessions.
- Sausage parm sandwich with red sauce, Parmesan and provolone cheese in a Costanzo’s bun by Mineo & Sapio.
- Strawberry, raspberry and lemon smoothie (with optional jalapeño added) by JMBB Concessions.
- Strawberry Shortcake Crunch, which is vanilla ice cream, fresh strawberries and vanilla shortcake in a waffle cone, by Polar Bear Concessions.
- Texas-style loaded ribbon fries with chili, cheese, bacon, ranch and jalapeños by Big G’s.