There are few things in the universe more evil than carnival food. Why do they feed us deep-fried sugary food before we get on rides that spin us around and around? Why is it that carnies aren’t all 500 lbs.? Must be the meth. Check out Newsweek’s list of the 7 most unhealthy carnival foods.
7. Cotton Candy
One large cone of spun sugar is 200 calories. It’s practically health food.
6. Snow Cones
The sugary syrup used is 100 calories an ounce. A 12 oz. snow cone will end up being 550 calories, depending on how syrup-heavy you take it.
5. Corn Dogs
a.k.a the “nitratesicle” contains 375 calories and 21 grams of fat and 1170 mg. of sodium.
4. Deep Fried Twinkie
One deep fried Twinkie contains 420 calories and 32 grams of fat. That doesn’t include any sugar or jelly topping.
3. Deep Fried Oreos
Each cookie contains 157 calories and 10.1 grams of fat.
2. Funnel Cake
An 8.3 oz. cake contains 760 calories, 44 grams of fat, 80 grams of carbs and 20 mg. of cholesterol.
1. Deep Fried Candy Bars
Everything from Snickers, Mars, Milkyway and 3 Musketeers is deep-fried and slapped on a stick. A king-size, deep-fried bar has over 700 calories and 44 grams of fat.
It’s a good thing you will be spending the day walking. What’s your favorite decadent carnival food?
Most Unhealthy Carnival Foods [Newsweek]
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gotta love American diets.
@Front_Towards_Enemy:
Yes, I was born in New Bedford … been to the Portuguese Feast there several times!
Fried dough is known as “pizza frite” in Upstate NY, proud home of the NYS fair. The NY state fair is also the home of the rather inelegantly named “wine slushie”, which has to compete for most horrific carnival beverage, if it applies to this thread.
Just think: an Icee/Slurpee/Squishee-type beverage made out of cheap table wine, with some sugar added and the bonus of being able to select whether you would like to drink it from an oversized novelty neon-pink or neon-green cup.
*moan* Oh, funnel cake. I used to get it every year when the elementary school up the street had their carnival. They cut back their budget a few years ago and I’ve been fried drippy pancake-less ever since!
I used to get cotton candy on the boardwalk too, that stuff is still wonderful. Also caramel corn from that place that Ocean City is famous for, and salt water taffy, and gummy coke bottles from the penny candy store.
This article sort of turned me on.
I like Indian Fry Bread. It’s kind of like a funnel cake, but way way better. Drizzle some honey and powdered sugar, or you can eat it with beans and meats and rice like a taco. Either way, it’s fucking fabulous! I haven’t had one since I was like 14 when I went to ‘Tucson Meet Yourself’
never got any of that stuff growing up, my nieces don’t get it either, I honestly think that I enjoy that kind of stuff more now is because I was denied it so often as a kid. I don’t think I was ever a brat a bout it, but I usually had to ask at least once per trip to the fair.
Now, I’d say Cotten Candy is fun, but I usually don’t get it unless someone else is gonna help. I love fried seafood now which I never liked growing up, Calimari, crab, etc. (Yes, santa cruz county fair or any seaside fair has this stuff).
@boss_lady: Actually, the deep-fried candy bar thing apparently started in Scotland.
I wonder if I could get a deep-friend Twinkie with bacon?
(Seriously, who goes to a carnival to eat healthy? If the food doesn’t get you, the 30-year old Tilt-O-Whirl held together by drywall screws might!)
@Grrrrrrrrr: Skip the middleman; have deep fried bacon.
Funnel cakes are my all-time favourite, but close behind we have fries with salt and loads of vinegar, as well as the impossibly thick and creamy chocolate milkshakes made by 4-H club or band booster parents during the local farm show.
Oh stop worrying and eat whatever you want when the carnival comes to town. The phosphoric acid in the soda you’ll be drinking should corrode almost all the rat droppings, fat and sugar in whatever mystery food you are partaking of.
Pierogies with butter, sour cream, and a generous shaking of salt. Nom nom nom.
@HeartBurnKid: Mmmmmm….deep-fried bacon…..*drools like Homer Simpson*
Fortunately, they have bacon chocolate bars:
[www.vosgeschocolate.com]
Biscuits filled with butter and cane syrup a courtesy of the MS dept of agriculture, deep fried chicken, potato, pickles and onions ON. A. STICK. sourdough cinnamon rolls with cream cheese icing.
Thank you Mississippi State Fair!
[www.gatewaygrizzlies.com]
Funnel cakes, when considered geometrically, can be forced to resolve to a value of 42, thus making them the Answer.
Ditto, I’ll take one of each too.
Last fair my wife and I went to we went just for the fried food.
@trustsatan:
Don’t be hating the NYS fair wine slushies! They’re refreshing on a hot day, and a happy buzz. Only problem is now you can’t take them out of the small “wine area”, unlike years past when you could roam all over the fair with them in the oversized neon cups.
No Fail Carnival Diet Plan:
1. Eat unhealthy carnival food.
2. Ride “Spin Out” (the one where the floor drops and you stick to the wall)
3. Throw up.
Shower, Rinse, Repeat.
@no.no.notorious: yea i know i was being a smart ass.
My wife is from CT I’m a Jersey boy so when I went up there to craft show or something with her and saw fried dough and they put red sauce on it.. i almost passed out.
I’m a Pen dutch Funnel Cake kind of guy myself.
Fair Food is Fun Fare.
This was my scrolling screensaver for years while I worked with Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. No food pyramids there. Lunch time was a slow motion stampede for the roach coach. Happy public servants lined up waiting for their savory fried delights. The place smelled like butt and rendered fat about 90 minutes after lunch. I now work in a place which has windows which are not sealed shut.
Where do elephant ears rank? Deepfried cake covered in sugar CAN’T be good for you.
I’ve never had any of that deep-fried stuff (Twinkies, Oreos, etc.). My favorite was always sno-cones, but I haven’t had them since they increased the size obviously. Last time I had one, it was served in a smallish paper cone deal.
Since carnivals tend to only come ’round once a year, I’ll gladly eat their 700+ calorie funnel cake every time.
What….the ‘cup ‘o pizza’ isn’t on the list?
The worst thing I ever ate at a carnival was the bearded lady.
@ElizabethD: NE represent? More like RI represent… Drink down those treats with a coffee cabinet.