Any food you can put on a stick — and a lot of things you don't think can be put on a stick — are on a stick at state fairs this year.
Some less obvious stick foods: salad (kebabs with cherry tomatoes), spaghetti (mostly meatball), pineapple (wrapped in dough and fried), pickles (fried with chocolate), meatloaf (fried), bacon (glued with chocolate).
Fair foods are competitively weird and have been since at least the first World's Fair of 1904 when most folks had a chance to taste hot dogs, peanut butter, cotton candy, and ice cream cones.
Today, the foods are increasingly extreme. Pickle pizza is mild compared to dishes with meal worms (sold as maggots) — the new thing on caramel apples and cheese sandwiches.
Then there is the food that isn't what it appears. The beef sundae looks exactly like ice cream with a cherry on top, but it is mashed potatoes, beef and a grape tomato. Spaghetti ice cream looks like spaghetti, but is actually ice cream pressed into noodles with strawberry sauce. Go figure.
