Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Unique Indy Food

Philly created cheesesteak sandwiches, New Orleans warms you up with shrimp creole, Boston serves up raw oysters like hazardous waste, and Cincinnati boils sauer kraut with water from the Ohio. So what unusual dishes does Indy have that distinguishes it from the rest of America?

Don't look for it in restaurants. You have to go to the State Fair. On Diabetic Drive you can start out with a Lemon Shake-up and a Funnel Cake. I don't know where the name comes from but its 100% sugar. After the sugar buzz subsides, catch the shuttle(no reason to walk off the 2000 calories) over to Deep-Fried Lane. It smells wonderful unless one of the horses pulling the shuttle dropped a deuce. There you can partake in either a deep-fried Twinkie or if you're really hungry, you can mow down on a pork chop fresh out of the fryer. Now you just need to drag yourself over to a park bench on Cardiac Lane next to the World's Fattest Two-Headed Woman and listen to you arteries clog. And do not forget the corn on the cob that's been soaking in butter.

On your way home make sure you buy a pound of salt water taffy and get some cotton candy for the road. You might need a snack before you hit the rack.

1 comment:

Chris Cheng said...

Thanks for the great post Indy Ted! To get more specific, do you or the Mrs. have any good recipes to share?

Maybe create a Google Doc, put the recipe(s) in it, and then share the URL with us all?

Chris