{"id":3136,"date":"2011-09-16T17:07:25","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/?p=3136"},"modified":"2011-09-16T17:07:25","modified_gmt":"2011-09-16T23:07:25","slug":"fair-food-friday-eat-your-fruits-and-veggies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/2011\/09\/16\/fair-food-friday-eat-your-fruits-and-veggies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fair Food Friday: Eat Your Fruits and Veggies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Deep fried avocado from Chicken Charlie's<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nYou can hear your mother now\u2014\u201cEat your fruits and vegetables.\u201d This childhood chore becomes much easier when your fruits and vegetables are sourced from the Fair. Everything here is a little bit more fun\u2014even our food!
\nTake for example deep fried avocado. Friends Rosie, from West Covina, and Gino and Christine, from La Puente, couldn\u2019t stop saying how delicious it was between bites. They\u2019d eaten several fried treats at the Fair (Twinkies, Oreos and more!), and the consensus was the deep fried avocado was the best.
\n\u201cIt\u2019s kinda like avocado on garlic bread with olive oil,\u201d Gino said when asked to describe the taste. \u201cIt\u2019s just good,\u201d added Rosie.
\nDeep fried avocado is served with pesto, a slice of lemon and ranch dressing. It comes from Chicken Charlie\u2019s, which serves up other fried veggies like mushrooms, zucchini and onions.
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Deep fried watermelon on stick from Cardinali Woodfire Pizza<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nYou\u2019d expect Cardinali Woodfire Pizza to make a really great pizza (and they do), but deep fried watermelon on stick? Ummm, where\u2019d that come from!?
\n\u201cIt was actually something I thought of when I was asked to be at a watermelon festival. They wanted me to do something special,\u201d manager Anthony said, though he likes to tell fairgoers it was invented by an Italian chemist. \u201cEveryone loves it!\u201d
\nAccording to Anthony, no one else is doing a deep fried watermelon on a stick (rind an all!). They key he said is premium, seedless melon. It is topped with powdered sugar and drizzled with a strawberry sauce. The crispy outside, plus juicy inside almost gives it the taste and texture of a donut. If you like watermelon, you will love this!
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Berries from Terri's Berries<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nFor a fruit of a different sort, Fair staple Terri\u2019s Berries serves up all kinds of fruit. Their chocolate dipped strawberries are by far their best sellers, which come in white, milk and dark chocolate. They are some of the juiciest strawberries you will ever bite into. But, if you want to hold back on the sugar, baskets of berries sell for about $6 each. They also make a mean smoothie.
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You can hear your mother now\u2014\u201cEat your fruits and vegetables.\u201d This childhood chore becomes much easier when your fruits and vegetables are sourced from the Fair. Everything here is a little bit more fun\u2014even our food! Take for example deep fried avocado. Friends Rosie, from West Covina, and Gino and Christine, from La Puente, couldn\u2019t…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-funatthefair"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3136\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.fairplex.com\/blog\/fairblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}