- This is like what as a child you look at and you go
"yeah, that would be good."
- This is sugar with sugar, with sugar sprinkled on top,
and the some sugar, glazing a ball of sugar.
- Gimme the bucket, gimme the bucket! (Tom laughs)
♪ (accordion intro) ♪
- (FBE) Today you'll be tasting state fair delicacies
from around the country.
- Oh, okay. - Whoa!
- It's state fair season, and they are always known
for like a sugar attack.
- Ugh! - Really?
I'm like, you're like "ugh", I'm like "yeah!"
- Yeah, 'cause you don't have a 49 year old stomach.
(both laugh)
- Wow! - Okay. (laughs)
- I'm just excited to be in a food episode with Darius.
I wanna see him eat. - Yes, yes.
- (FBE) At the end of each treat, you'll have the opportunity
to guess what the food is
and rate it on a scale from one through five.
- Oh cool, okay. - Interesting.
- I've been on a lot of like, carnival rides,
and if the food is as regulated as those roller coasters,
we might die. - Get ready arteries!
Yeah boy, let's do this!
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) This first mysterious treat comes straight from New York.
- Okay. - Oh.
- Oh my God! - My eyes just dilated.
- What's inside of it? I wanna break it open.
- If it has meat in here, that'd be amazing.
- I'm gonna dissect it.
- Zombie apocalypse, people kill for these.
- (laughs) 'Cause they last forever! - Mmm.
Mmm, mmm, mmm. - What happened?
Are you okay? That's gross.
- It's so gross. - Do you like it?
- No. (laughs) - I don't like it.
I know what it is, and I don't like it.
- That is very good. It's not overpowering.
- Mm-hmm. - It's like a donut.
- Yeah. - Just really sweet,
but the right amount.
- (FBE) Alright, now show me your guesses.
- Fried Twinkie.
- Twinkie.
- It's a deep fried me! (Trudi laughs)
- (FBE) Yeah!
You guys both know what it is. - (Mikaela) We nailed it.
- (FBE) So what would you guys rate these fried twinkies
on a scale of one through five?
- I'm gonna go with a half. - This is as many fingers
as I can hold up right now. I would just say a one and a half.
- One, I don't like Twinkies. - I actually love Twinkies,
but I can't get with the fried Twinkie.
I'm gonna give it a two.
- I'm gonna go with three, to be honest.
- Yeah, I'm gonna go with a three, too.
- It's gotta be a two. Although it's a classic.
- I give it a one honestly, it's a little too fried for my taste.
- A four, like it's something I could finish,
because it's not too overpowering. - I think it's just right,
the amount of like sweet, I'm gonna go five.
That's the best so far, and it wasn't too overpowering,
'cause I could finish it, but I like it.
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So up next, a mouth-watering adaptation
straight from Arizona.
- Oh my God.
My eyes started watering bro, I swear.
- I don't know what I did to deserve this.
- This is what you give your four year old,
five year olds to just get them to go [bleep] nuts
and then go to sleep for hours.
- I was just gonna say, like this is literally the last food
I would ever feed a child.
- That's not meant to be consumed.
- I actually don't totally mind this.
- I don't like that. - Tastes like sugar.
Y'all, I can't take all this candy.
- That's a lot of sugar. - Y'all gonna give me diabetes.
- This is so gross. What is wrong with these people?
- I think I got diabetes. - I know, right?
- Just to summarize, this is sugar, with sugar,
with sugar sprinkled on top, and then some sugar,
glazing a ball of sugar.
- This is godly right here, this is its own genre of things.
- (FBE) Show me your guesses!
- She is a red velvet cotton candy, chocolate marshmallow taco.
- There's a lot happening in my belly right now.
(both laugh)
- (FBE) You guys are both right.
The correct answer is cotton candy taco.
- (Don) Ooh, I got it!
- (FBE) What would you guys like to rate the cotton candy taco
on a scale of one through five?
- Maybe a point five. - This is a five!
- This is total five! - This is a five for fun!
- I'll give it a three, 'cause it's just too much sugar for me.
- I'm gonna go with a solid four. - I'll give it a three.
- Probably a two. - Five.
- I don't know dude, I'm legitimately short of breath.
This is dangerous!
Just 'cause you can make things doesn't mean that you should!
- Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could,
they didn't stop to think if they should.
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Up next, an irresistible treat
invented at the Los Angeles County Fair.
- Ooh, Los Angeles County! Ooh, is that blueberries in there?
- What's on the inside? Is it chocolate, but it's green.
- I think I know what these are.
- Oh yeah! - Mmm!
- Oh my God is that mint? - That's so good, seriously it is!
- Holy [bleep] that's delicious. - It's so good!
- It's just really upsetting. In a really good way.
- It's really thick. I feel like after one of these,
I'd have cardiac arrest. - Mm-hmm.
- Tastes like a cookie. That Japanese stuff in the middle.
The green stuff that they make, the gooey stuff.
- You're talking about like mochi? - Mochi, yeah!
- What?
- They can deep fry literally anything.
They could deep fry me and I'll be like
"this is delicious."
- (FBE) Alright, show me your guess. - Bam!
- It's so slippery and greasy! - Wait, okay.
- Oreos!
- (FBE) This was a deep fried mint Oreo.
- Yes, fried Oreos.
- I thought it was gonna be like a Girl Scout, like a Thin Mint,
but that's totally an Oreo. - Yeah.
- (FBE) What do you guys rate this on a scale of one through five?
- Tastes pretty good. I'll give it a four.
- I'll give it a one. I don't like the mint flavor.
- What!? - Three.
- I was gonna say like a three and a half.
- I'd give it a four, because I think,
if you were to add like a chocolate sauce to it
or like a whipped cream, a carmel something,
like gooey on top, it would just (clicks tongue)
perfecto! - I absolutely agree.
I was gonna say four as well. (bell rings)
- If it's like a scale of how likely
you are to throw up after, a five.
But if it's a scale of how much you're
going to enjoy that throw up, this is like a four and a half.
- This, yeah, I'll give it a four and a half too,
but with milk, I give it a five.
- Ooh, that'd be good.
- With milk, it'd be a definite five.
- I give it a three. It's good, but I only want one.
- I'm giving it a one... - I don't blame you.
- ...because the best part about Oreos is like that crunchy.
- The Oreo! - The Oreo part, but the crunchy snap,
and there's no snap in there.
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) Up next, a reinvented beverage straight from the Texas State Fair.
- Ooh. - What?
Listen, there's only solid, liquid and gas.
And I'm pretty sure this is a solid. - This is a beverage?
It's bleeding! - How do you deep fry a drink?
- Ooh, it's really sticky.
Oh. - What?
- It's kinda flavorless. - Yeah, it just kinda
tastes like batter. - I don't know.
- This is burnt funnel cake? It just tastes dry.
- I just, yeah. - I don't really taste anything.
- I can't taste, there's no taste really.
- It just tastes like fried... - What beverage?
- ...with some sort of raspberry or strawberry syrup.
- The only beverage I want at a state fair
has a little kick to it, know what I'm sayin'?
- Exactly! - This is not kicking.
- Oh, I can't wait to go to the fair with you.
- (FBE) Alright, show me your guess. - Yeah, that's it.
- Fried Slurpee, oh, that sounds probably right.
- I know, I don't know. - (FBE) No.
So this is deep fried Coke.
- (Mikaela) How do you deep fry Coke?
- It look like chicken,
it look like chicken finger funnel cake.
- Did it taste like chicken finger? - No, what I'm saying is like,
chicken fingers, like chicken fingers in funnel cake.
- Dad, is chicken fingers a drink?
- No, what I'm saying...
- (FBE) So what would you guys rate the deep fried Coke?
- A one. - One, yeah.
- That had no flavor. - That's a definite no.
- Like a four. - I give it a one.
- That's a zero. - Yeah, I'm gonna go with zero.
- It tastes like Bisquick. - It does!
- It's like you're eating pancake mix. - If you eat just that.
- I'll go one. It doesn't taste like coke.
- Just the fact that it's fried Pepsi, I'll give it a three,
because that's pretty interesting. Like what?
- A one. - Yeah, I'm gonna give it a one.
- She's nothing special.
- 'Cause Coke is not coming across to me.
Not even Cherry Coke, so... - She's not the star of the show.
- Nope. - We are.
- That's right.
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- (FBE) So this next tasty treat was invented at the Oklahoma State Fair.
- Oh, oh! - Oklahoma.
- Whoa, what is that!? - Jesus Criminy!
- What's all...
- What [bleep] is Oklahoma dealing with?
Why do they need this?
- Oh, I don't like that feeling. - I don't either.
- I'm not gonna lie, that is heavy.
- Oh my, that's greasy. I'm glistening.
- Yeah.
- What?
- This is weird, but it tastes really good.
- I don't like it already, uh uh. - Not a good experience.
- It's too much!
- What's the mix? - Jesus!
- Is that jelly? - There's candy inside there.
- Oh, that's a lot.
- That cherry... - It's so heavy.
- It's like a cherry gummy candy.
- This is like what, as a child, you look at and you go
"yeah, that would be good!"
- (FBE) One, two, three.
- It's a fried gummy bear!
- I said a deep fried big ass gummy bear!
(both laugh)
- (FBE) You guys are both correct.
- (Tom) Yeah, let's go!
- Who the [bleep] saw like a two pound gummy bear
and was like "we could do better."
- We gotta fry this.
- (FBE) What would you guys rate the gummy bears
on the scale of one through five.
- That was like a half, half a star. - Yeah, I'm gonna go with a one.
- A one! - Okay, that is,
as a snack, one. - I would rate it a two,
just because it's so sugary. - I give it a one.
I ain't really feeling that at all. - This is like a 10.
- It's gonna have to be a two, just 'cause I'm not really a gummy person,
unless it's sour. - Three, it's like a middle ground.
Like it's not bad, obviously I'd eat it,
but like, I could never eat the whole thing.
- I'm gonna go with one. - Okay.
- That was, like not, I wouldn't even entertain
the idea of purchasing that at the Oklahoma State Fair.
♪ (accordion music) ♪
- Oh my God. - (FBE) For our final dish,
these critters originate in Mexico. - (both) Critters!
- (FBE) But have been popularized by state fairs across the country.
- Why you gotta end with this bitch? - That's...
- [bleep] that. I've already done this!
- They love feeding me bugs, dude. - I've had so many crickets.
- Welcome to the show. - Mikaela, I can't, I have a real...
- Let's see here, these little critters.
Listen, on this show, I don't care about bugs any more.
I have had... - Really?
- Three tarantulas, a scorpion, crickets, grasshoppers.
- Like eaten, or been around? - Yes, eaten.
- I'm just gonna put a lot of sauce on it,
and I'm just gonna [bleep] munch it.
- It doesn't change the fact that you're eating a grasshopper!
- I've eaten so much worse Sharon, you don't even know!
(Sharon screams)
- You ate it! (laughs)
- I don't like this show at all. (mumbles) Gimme the bucket!
Gimme the bucket! (Tom laughs)
- Ooh, it's so many chews. - It's just like a french fry.
- Oh my God. - This is fine.
- It's in my teeth!
- It's in my teeth too, I just don't want to think about it.
- Okay. - It's good for you, right there.
It's good nutrients. It's good for the heart.
If we got left in the wilderness, what you gonna eat?
- Nothing, I'm dying. - You gotta grab, she be dead.
- Oh wow. - You like it?
- It's pretty good with the sauce.
This one's a big one, look at this one.
- Ooh, spicy, don't hold it up.
If I didn't know what it was, it wouldn't be bad.
- (FBE) Three, two, one!
- Croquet!
- (FBE) You're both wrong.
- Oh. - Grasshopper.
- (FBE) Yes. - Oh wow!
- They're still good though. - (FBE) Yes, fried grasshoppers.
- (Vivica) Yeah, I'm not gonna forget that, ever.
- The one thing I will say is they leave little pieces
of their body all over your mouth. - Yeah, you feel like...
- Shrapnel.
- You'll find a leg in your tooth later.
- Don't you say that to me!
- You will, and it's gross. - No, oh!
- (FBE) What would you rate these, one through five?
- Honestly, for the experience, I'm gonna give it a five.
I think everybody should at least try it once in their life.
- Okay, well, I love that, and I'm giving it a zero,
because it's still in my teeth, and I don't like to eat bugs.
- I'd give that a five right there. That's good.
I don't care what she's talking about.
You better get your taste buds right.
- You better get your taste buds right.
- You better get ya taste buds right.
- Over here eating bugs like it's nothing.
- I'll give 'em a two,
because I just wouldn't order them myself.
But also when you eat them, they're fine.
- I, same. - Negative 14.
- I'm gonna go slightly higher than the gummy bear.
(laughs) I'm gonna say it's like a one.
- I'm giving it a one,
just 'cause like I would never buy this.
You're gonna say too high of a number.
(bell rings)
- It is not bad, it's pretty good.
- (FBE) So finally, which one of these foods
would you recommend? - The fried grasshoppers!
- I recommend the Coke.
- I'm going with the taco.
- I was just about to say I'm gonna go with the taco.
- The taco was kind of a delightful treat.
- I'm still kinda thinking about the gummy bear.
Like I can't have more, but I want more.
- I like the taco a lot, the taco was really good to me.
- Uh, none. (both laugh)
- Save your money. Go on a ride or two.
Maybe the deep fried Oreo.
The deep fried mint Oreo was pretty okay.
- I liked the deep fried Oreo, the mint Oreo.
That was so good. - Yeah!
- I think that was my favorite.
- I'm still gonna go with the deep fried Twinkie.
- Just taking a bite of all these foods,
I feel sick. (both laugh)
- I feel ready to take on the day!
- Yeah, like I'm ready to walk around a whole damn fair.
- (laughs) Exactly.
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