New N.C. State Fair Foods

The Boy and I are heading over to the @triangletweetup at the NC State Fair tonight, and we're excited about sampling all kind of strange fair foods. Here are some of the brand-new foods we've heard about (from the NC State Fair's Deep Fried Blog):

• Funnel cake fries from N & T Concessions. Just like the perennial Fair favorite, but with a portable twist. Who can resist a cross between powdered sugar goodness and the convenience of a french fry?

• Chicken-fried bacon from Chef Thomas’ Chef’s D’Lites. Just like it sounds, these strips of bacon are covered in batter and deep-fried like chicken-fried steak.

• Buffalo chicken rangoons from Raleigh’s own Woody’s City Market. These bite-sized, deep-fried dumplings (similar to the crab rangoons available in many Chinese restaurants) will be filled with some of Woody’s famous buffalo chicken.

• Chocolate-covered bacon from The Murphy House. Bacon lovers will have to contain themselves, since we’ll have not one, but two twists on the ever-popular bacon. A mix  of savory, sweet and salty, chocolate-covered bacon got some rave reviews at our pre-Fair media lunch, but you’ll have to come decide for yourself. (Steph’s Strawberries will also have chocolate-covered bacon for sale on the fairgrounds near the Hobbies and Handicrafts Building.)

I'm not too excited about the bacon ones, both of which seem to push the rule that bacon makes everything better, but I can't wait to try buffalo chicken rangoons and french-fry funnel cakes.

Via Deep Fried @ the N.C. State Fair | Details behind the tweetup: Deep-fried food sample edition.