Eat Drink SETX – Southeast Texas Restaurants and Bars – Food – Drink – Event Guide

Beaumont foodies will  find a lot to like at the 2014 South Texas State Fair – and even more to explore.

Carnival food walks the line between “on the edge” of culinary creativity and “I have to sell a lot of this to pay the bills”.

Major home runs have been hit in the past by carnival vendors, some a hundred years ago and many much more recently.

Carnivals like the South Texas State Fair brought many of the major innovations that Beaumont foodies enjoy today:

• The Ice Cream Cone (invented by a carnival waffle vendor working next to an ice cream vendor)
• Pork on a Stick
• Kettle Corn
• Deep Fried Twinkies

Fried Twinkie

The 2014 South Texas State Fair will have a tremendous variety of fun carnival food for our Southeast Texas foodies to explore.

Here are a few that caught our eye at EatDrinkSETX.com:

1. The South Texas State Fair Food Classics. Bear Country #1

• Pork Kabobs
• Boudain
• Crawfish Pistolettes
• Hamburgers
• Foot Long Hot Dogs
• Tater Twisters

Pork on a Stick

2. A Small Step Beyond. Chuck’s Eats

• Stuffed Dill Pickle
• Etouffee
• Fried Milky Way on a Stick
• Fried Snickers on a Stick
• Crawfish Sausage and Boudain
• Stuffed Cucumbers
• Deer Sausage

Fried Snickers

3. They’ll Fry Anything. Fun Zone Food Service LLC #1

• Fried Moon Pies
• Fried Cheese Cake
• Fried Twinkie
• Fried Cookie Dough
• Fried Brownies
• Fried Candy Bars
• Fried M&M’s
• Fried Cheese on a Stick

Traditional or cutting edge, the 2014 South Texas State Fair has plent for Beaumont foodies to check out now through April 6th.