"Dave Smith" > wrote in message
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> On 2016-08-03 2:35 PM, Nancy Young wrote:
>
>> It does rather seem like one of those over the top foods you
>> find at fairs. Blooming onion at the Bloomsburg fairgrounds
>> seems like a double play on words, though wiki says it's
>> invented in Springfield, NJ. Who knows.
>>
>> I had my second funnel cake last week at our county fair.
>> This time I get why they're popular, much better than the
>> first heavy doughy one I had.
>>
>
> I never gave it a second try. My wife got one and gave me some. Maybe it
> was not a good one. Maybe it was that I was predisposed to dislike
> something made of deep fried batter but with nothing in it but a lot of
> empty calories and fat. I was at a local festival a couple years ago and
> saw a concession stand selling them. If the product itself doesn't turn
> you off the customers in line waiting for those things would do it.

I didn't like it either however, the people I went with assured me that was
what it was supposed to taste like and were all too eager to finish mine
off.