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The summer fair trifecta consists of rides, games, and food, and vendors are pulling out all the stops to tempt taste buds on the midway this year at Regina’s Queen City Ex.
There’s a wide range of offerings for 2022, including spicy fried dill pickles, Flamin’ Hot Cheetos fries, and deep fried mochi.
Oreo rice from Wok This Way at the Queen City Ex. Aug. 3, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
Wok this Way is offering Oreo fried rice, which is coconut rice served with full and crumbled Oreos and a maple drizzle.
“At the fair there’s always Oreo, so we thought we’d do a quick twist and combine the two,” said Dorothy Au with Wok this Way.
She said the offering was a big hit in Alberta, so she’s hoping to see the same reactions in Saskatchewan.
On the other side of the midway is Big Coco’s Corndogs, which is offering a Korean corn dog made with squid ink. It’s half a string cheese and half wiener, cut on the end to make “tentacles,” then fried in black squid ink batter and rolled in sugar.
“It’s got a different vibe. The Korean thing’s been a big thing for us this year,” said Scott Dennis.
Korean corndogs with squid ink from Big Coco’s Corndogs at the Queen City Ex. Aug. 3, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
“It’s got the cheesiness in that first bite. The string cheese comes out, and then you’ve got the sugar taste, so kind of like a sweet treat with a corn dog.”
Those on the hunt for something a little meatier can head over to Melt Town Grilled Cheese for a donut grilled cheese sandwich, made with homemade pulled pork.
Sarah La explained the dish, saying it’s made up of two glazed donuts with cheese and pulled pork between, steamed on the grill until everything melts. She said people get the sandwich quite a bit.
“They like it because it’s sweet and savoury, so like the pulled pork offsets the sweetness of the glaze, so you get both that sweet taste but a little bit of the salty,” said La.
Glazed donut grilled cheese with pulled pork from Melt Town Grilled Cheese at the Queen City Ex. Aug. 3, 2022 (Lisa Schick/980 CJME)
La said they came up with the idea after realizing that people always leave the fair with mini donuts, so they wanted to incorporate the tradition into the truck’s menu.
Among the odder offerings at the fair this year were mac and cheese soft serve ice cream. The woman working the stand said a lot of people get and say that it’s “alright.”
Mini donuts, always a staple of the fair, will be the centrepiece of the eating contest on Friday between several community leaders and champion competitive eater Joey Chestnut.
Tim Reid, president and CEO of REAL, said he was feeling pretty confident about the competition, until he spoke to Chestnut.
“He’s kind of a machine,” Reid said. “He was the most matter-of-fact person I’ve ever talked to about eating. He’s like ‘the average person will eat 40 donuts. I will eat between 220 and 230 donuts.’”
The competition is going to support the food bank, with organizers aiming to raise enough money for 60,000 meals.
“I’m excited to participate,” said Reid. “Terrified to watch (Chestnut) eat hundreds of mini donuts, but I think if the community can support us and we can continue to raise some funds, the impact of that will change the opportunities for some of the most vulnerable in the city, and that’s a good thing.”