24 Outrageous Food Mash-ups at the State Fair of Texas

Deep-fried pico de gallo is folded into an egg wrap. And deep fried again, of course.

Why not combine the two best foods in the universe? 

Forget chocolate chips. We prefer our ice cream studded with funnel cake. 

They’re injected with strawberry cream cheese filling, dusted with cinnamon sugar and drizzled with honey.

What do you get when you wrap a sweet cream-filled sponge cake in savory bacon, then dip it in funnel cake batter? Heaven.

Sticky rice + coconut milk + mangoes + a deep fryer. Don’t forget the homemade duck sauce. 

Fried mozzarella sandwiched between two fried green tomatoes. It’s served with a salad, so it’s healthy, right?

Cornbread cakes are filled with chicken white bean chili. We’ll take it over the sweet version any day.

Basically deep-fried hand pies made with puff pastry and filled with orange custard.

Five words: Mini corn dogs with cheese.

A giant, glorious shake with a cherry on top.

Your sweet tooth will thank you.

This dish starts with whole softshell crabs and ends with deep-fried plantains.

Step 1: Infuse pickle juice with Fruit Punch–flavored Kool-Aid. Step 2: Add white white and lemon-lime soda. Step 3: You be the judge. 

A flashback to your childhood days, only better.

Dangerous cheesy corn fritters with creamy corn dip.

Forget apple pie. Deep-fried cinnamon-spiced rice balls are the perfect companion for vanilla ice cream. 

Need we say more?

Sip Pixy Stix cherry sherbet champagne through a large Pixy Stix straw.

Don’t worry, no actual corn dogs are used to create it—but the glass is rimmed with yellow mustard.

You won’t find this baby at your local ice-cream truck.

An explosion of ground beef, mixed vegetables and rich beef gravy fill every mashed potato bite. 

An enormous fritter made with potatoes, breakfast sausage and Babybel cheese is served in a cheesy potato skin.

The accoutrement to this black-eyed pea, rice and sausage fritter? Pickled okra, of course.