Showing posts with label Fair. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fair. Show all posts

Friday, October 10, 2008

Finding Gluten-Free food at the fair

I was headed for a day at the Texas State Fair when my boyfriend asked, "what can you eat there?"  What, indeed, in the land of chicken-fried-bacon could I possibly find to eat?  At lunch time, we went to the food court and I was trapped in a sea of gluten.  However, I went from booth to booth picking foods I thought likely to be Gluten Free and asking if they were.  I struck out several times, but landed in Gluten-Free paradise at a stand selling caribbean-style food.  I have to say, my tasty bowl of black beans and rice accompanied by scrumptious baked plantains looked a lot better than my boyfriend's turkey leg.  

Some commonly* Gluten-Free festival foods are:
  • caramel apples
  • cotton candy
  • kettle corn
  • pop corn
  • grilled sweet corn
  • ice cream in a bowl
  • ribbon fries (Where they take a whole potato, slice it real thin and fry it.  Make sure they don't fry the funnel cakes in the same oil!)
  • taffy
  • peanut brittle
*Always double check.  You never know where some modified food starch or a dusting of flour might creep in.