Photo: Chicken Charlie's

"Chicken" Charlie Boghosian, an aficionado of all things deep-fried who brought us the deep-fried Oreo, the deep-fried avocado and other wonders, has now combined Kool-Aid and deep-fried dough to rave reviews at the San Diego County Fair. These fried treats—made from a batter of flour, water and Kool-Aid—look like hot pink doughnut holes (and apparently they taste like them too) and have become the talk of the fair. Last weekend, Boghosian sold in the neighborhood of 500 five-ball orders per day. He's gone through 150 pounds of Kool-Aid powder and 1,500 pounds of flour to make about 9,000 Kool-Aid balls.

State and county fairs seem to serve as laboratories for fried foods. Remember Oprah and Gayle's trip to the State Fair of Texas? Take a trip down a crispy, powdered sugar–dusted memory lane with this slide show of some of the fair's most bizarre fried foods.