Syracuse,
NY – July 2016 / Newsmaker Alert / Every day can be Thanksgiving
- at least, every one of the 12 days of the Great
New York State Fair - thanks to one of the crazy Fair foods to debut
this year: The New York Harvester. It’s Thanksgiving, deep fried into a
sandwich that weighs two pounds.
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 The
creator of this madness is Jim Hasbrouck, who operates the famous Fried
Specialties booths at the Fair and whose heart-stopping Defibrillator was
last year’s craziest new food and won national attention. But enough about
the cook; what’s in the sandwich?
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Deep-fried turkey
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Deep-fried mashed potatoes
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Deep-fried stuffing
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Cranberry sauce
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Cheese sauce
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Bacon - deep-fried, of course
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All of it stacked between two
slices of sourdough bread and every ounce of it made with New York products
“I spent the winter working
on this,” said Hasbrouck, the Wayne County resident who tours the nation
selling deep-fried fun at many fairs and festivals. “I went through a lot
of food to get this just right, and it’s good. Crazy good.”
“This is one of the fun reasons
people wait all year for the Fair. They want to taste something they’ve
never tasted before. As for me, I can’t wait to dig in to one of these.
Who doesn’t love Thanksgiving dinner?” said Troy Waffner, Acting Fair Director.
Hasbrouck also plans to bring
back The Defibrillator, the mega-burger that featured a deep-fried Angus
burger patty, deep-fried pickles, deep-fried cheese curds, deep-fried bacon,
and cheddar cheese, stuffed between two grilled cheese sandwiches. The
sandwich was one of several fun Fair foods featured on the Cooking Channel
show “Carnival Eats” earlier this year.
The New York Harvester is
the first of several wild new food choices to be announced in the coming
weeks. The Fair’s annual surveys of fairgoers have consistently shown that
food is the number one item on their agendas. Fair officials have been
diversifying food choices gradually each year, adding healthy options such
as the wildly successful vegan food stand in the International Building
and embracing more ethnic foods.
Of course, the Fair is known
for its signature products - the cup of perfectly chilled white or chocolate
milk in the Dairy Products building and the $1 baked potato with all the
fixings in the Horticulture Building. The sausage sandwich with peppers
and onion has been a staple of the Fair for decades.
About the Great New York
State Fair
The New
York State Fair, operated by the New
York State Department of Agriculture and Markets, runs from August
25 to September 5, 2016. The Fair’s mission, reflected in its theme, “Summer’s
Best In Show!,” is to showcase the best of New York agriculture while providing
top-quality entertainment.
In addition to the annual
New York State Fair, the Fairgrounds host dozens of agricultural events
throughout the year, including some of the Northeast’s most prestigious
horse and livestock shows.
The home of the Great New
York State Fair is a 375-acre exhibit and entertainment complex that operates
all year. A year-round schedule
of events is available on the Fair’s
website. Find The Great New York State Fair on Facebook,
follow @NYSFair on Twitter, and
enjoy photos from the Fair at Flickr.com/photos/nysfair.
Also, New Yorkers are invited to send their ideas for the Great New York
State Fair at statefairideas@agriculture.ny.gov.
Media Contacts:
Jola
Szubielski
Public Information Officer
NYS Department of Agriculture
& Markets
518-457-0752
Dave
Bullard
Public Relations
New York State Fair
315-487-7711 x 1377 |
