My Fried Kool Aid Experience

First off, my apologies for not having updated. Between the mediocre third season that was Top Chef Masters and the craziness of moving back home post-graduation, starting a new job, and eating my face off without shame, I found little time to blog. But now I'm back!

My most adventurous food escapade of the past month or so came in the form of Fried Kool Aid. As someone who loves Fried Dough, Funnel Cakes, Fried Oreos, and pretty much everything battered and thrown in a deep fryer, I was intrigued by the concept of Fried Kool Aid, which was buzzing around the internet after its debut at county fairs across the country. Much to my luck, a local fast-casual restaurant was serving it up last weekend, so my boyfriend and I took the plunge and picked up an order when I got out of work.

Now, when I had seen Fried Kool Aid on the internet, it looked much like this...

However, when I got home with a steaming hot, sweet-smelling order of our very own, it looked like this...


The first photo looked more like Fried Oreos to me, while what we were served looked like a disassembled Funnel Cake. We each had our first bites, and it had the same consistency of Funnel Cake without the crunchiness. And while it was sweet like Kool Aid, nothing about the taste of it fried knocked me out. Some of the bigger chunks had a lot more concentrated flavor that was a bit more to my liking, but for the most part I just wasn't crazy about it. Frying the Kool Aid in this matter didn't change the Kool Aid in the same way that frying dough or Oreos does. When you fry an Oreo, it takes a solid, crumbly cookie and turns it into a warm, gooey, decadent ball of deliciousness. All frying did for the Kool Aid was turn a liquid into a solid, which while frying a drink was a really cool innovative concept, the execution just didn't work for me.

Maybe if the Kool Aid had been fried into a ball instead of this stringy stuff, it would have been more to my liking, because I can imagine that it would have been more like a Fried Oreo. And everything else at this restaurant has been nothing but delicious and of the highest quality, so it's not a fault of theirs. Perhaps I've just found something fried that I'm not into. After all, I don't like every single type of donut.

But I like most donuts.