As a second trip to this year's Minnesota State Fair no longer seems feasible for Thurs., Sept. 2, or any other remaining date, I write this post Wed., Sept. 1, with comments on just one new Fair food to share. (Fingers are crossed that wine-based ice cream will still be sold in the Ag building next year!)
The "My Sausage Sister & Me" booth in the fairgrounds' Food Building (see http://www.sausagesisters.com/ for more) has added cheese-&-sausage-stuffed jalapenos to its menu. Anything there would have been new to me, though, as my Sat., Aug. 28, visit to the Sausage Sisters' stand was my first.
Each of three peppers ($5.00 for the tray) is stuffed mostly with cheese and about a marble's worth of sausage. A piece of bacon is wrapped around the roasted pepper and each stuffed jalapeno is kept together with a toothpick.
If you closed your eyes for any reason, you would certainly still know after biting the first pepper that you were eating a jalapeno. That rush wears off within seconds, and I found it worked best to bascially inhale the rest of the pepper without wasting much thought.
As I finished my first, walking past a table of strangers, a guy asked me where I'd bought them. I told him, but then offered him a pepper right from my tray. He said he'd buy his own, which forced me to eat both of the others despite my dominant-yet-delicate, Swedish-Danish-Norwegian blood.
Don't stop while eating, and you'll feel no pain. But wait a minute after eating your final bite, and the real fun will hit your throat for another 30-60 seconds.
Maybe I could've and should've put off buying that blackberry malt from Minnesota's dairy farmers (near the encased butter heads) until after the jalapenos, but it's in my State Fair contract that I always visit the Dairy Building first, and rules are rules.
Instead of more ice cream, I followed my peppers with 33 ounces of Sierra Mist from a stand that sells Pepsi products and only Pepsi products (no food) for $2.25 in the Food Building. I went back to that stand for a refill for just $1.25 more. So, I had 66 ounces of pop -- not soda -- with ice for $3.50. It beat the heat. You couldn't beat the price.
