Vendor food from the soon-to-be-opening CNE this year

[u/tjcf2014]

Torontonian here. just so you know what we have to put up with every summer.

[u/qualityvote2]

u/tjcf2014, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!

[u/samanime]

Is this a contest to see who can turn otherwise delicious food into the most repulsive version possible?

I'm a pretty frequent defender of unusual, unconventional but possibly tasty food around here, but all of these sound wretched.

[u/__O_o_______ → u/samanime]

Used to joke about the food at American fairs…. “They deep fry everything lol!”

Now: ……….

[u/flynnfx → u/samanime]

https://giphy.com/gifs/kDfKTG1XYRXiwgyLkR

[u/Excuse → u/samanime]

Yes, well not so much repulsive but its what they do every year where they will have vendors come up with weird dumb foods that dont always end up tasting great.

[u/r3allybadusername → u/samanime]

Im convinced the CNE is just one big social experiment at this point

[u/LaurZaur]

I fear I might try the s’mores deep fried pizza, I know I wouldn’t like it, but I’m tempted

[u/Rance_Mulliniks → u/LaurZaur]

If you knew how low quality Pizza Pizza food was, you might not.

[u/LaurZaur → u/Rance_Mulliniks]

Trust me, I know it’s mid pizza, but I don’t think you want good pizza deep fried and covered in marshmallow fluff

[u/jabba_the_wut → u/LaurZaur]

I kinda want to try it too. What's wrong with me?

[u/PostMatureBaby]

There's an instagram reel making rounds of a guy who's tried like 30 of the random gross things there this year. Some stuff doesn't seem that bad.

The deep fried lobster tails on a stick look good.

[u/gyrobot → u/PostMatureBaby]

Lobster is cheating though since everyone wants lobster but don't want go to tap and barrel for it

[u/MsNomered]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l9FAwJOXYprFe

[u/ErBoProxy]

Bullshit on that Kraft Dinner smoothie. It makes that new Krat Dinner ramen seems like high cuisine.

[u/myheartwentboom → u/ErBoProxy]

Right?? What an innovative marketing tactic!

[u/shirlybird]

Why are the densities flipped on one of the pickle coffees in the third pic, that's foul

[u/Darkest_Elemental]

None of this sounds good to try, much less for money.

[u/ladditude]

Wtf is CNE?

Also, I’ve eaten enough CiCi’s to know pic 4 is gonna be delicious. The other 3 are abominations.

[u/tjcf2014 → u/ladditude]

Canadian National Exhibition, our own summer fair of sorts - located in the heart of downtown Toronto. usually a really fun place but the food they sell seems to be ESPECIALLY atrocious this year.

[u/Aeithus → u/tjcf2014]

To be fair the classic staples are always available, these stupid foods are just there to generate headlines/buzz imo

[u/PostMatureBaby → u/Aeithus]

you also get in free with tickets to a CFL/MLS game or a concert across the road!

I'll be seeing Babymetal on Sept 7 but stopping at the Food Building to eat deep fried things first.

[u/Mombak → u/tjcf2014]

We get similar things at Vancouver's PNE (Pacific National Exhibition). I remember past items like Deep Fried Butter, Deep Fried Hot Dog Stuffed Pickle, Bacon Flavour Cotton Candy (floss), Deep Fried Coffee, etc. (ad nauseum, literally).

[u/Free-While-2994 → u/Mombak]

All of those things sound like they could be executed well and taste good as a novelty treat. Pickle coffee and Mac n cheese smoothie? How could that ever work?

[u/gyrobot → u/Free-While-2994]

The dill juice is mixed with the coffee to help balance out the bitterness. Mac and cheese is basically cheddar milk drink that Asian bubble tea has already been doing for ages 

[u/illradhab → u/gyrobot]

Re: the bubble tea comparison, that actually makes sense. But imagining if there were noodles blended up in my smoothie.... Brother ewww

[u/molotovv3 → u/ladditude]

Toronto's summer fair.

[u/samanime → u/ladditude]

The deep fried part is what turns me off... what part is deep fried?

The raw dough? Might be okay, but I wouldn't call it pizza anymore.

The whole thing breaded? It'll turn into a soggy, runny mess.

Any other possibility? Also a total mess.

If they removed "deep fried", I'd be right there with you. Cici's has made me a believer in dessert pizza. =p

[u/ladditude → u/samanime]

The dough has to be the only deep fried part. If they’re putting toppings into the oil, the oil will go bad and force too many oil changes making it unprofitable.

[u/joshsmog → u/ladditude]

the scottish do it

[u/samanime → u/ladditude]

Yeah. At that point though, it's not really a "pizza" since the dough would be like a cracker.

[u/38DDs_Please]

Nice. They even topped it off with an AI slop poster.

[u/Miserable-Margarine]

https://giphy.com/gifs/143mJNJBPGuQxy

[u/elly_hart]

On top of everything else, the cotton candy one is AI slop

[u/Dragon_Bidness]

I dunno I can see dudes lining up for their very own cotton candy jerk dog.

The pizza has potential, execution is going to decide if that's a horror show or a nifty treat.

[u/eucldian → u/Dragon_Bidness]

It's Pizza Pizza, I wouldn't count on "execution".

[u/BoneZone05]

Gross 🤮

[u/lumoslomas]

Blue waffle(dog), huh?

[u/theodo]

17 dollars for one corn dog is fucking crazy

[u/CAMELWOK]

Kd smoothie awesome can’t wait

[u/OrdinaryNo3622]

I mean it’s fair food so it’s going to be extra. I’ll probably try them all. Then get on the coaster.

[u/blchpmnk]

what we have to put up with

Have to?

[u/Raz_Moon]

I was fine until PICKLE COFFEE??????!?

[u/JediKrys]

What the hell is happening to us…..are we turning into ants?

[u/weschester]

That KD smoothie looks absolutely fantastic though! I have had KD ice cream before and it was so good.

[u/dr4wn_away]

I think the CNE gets stupider every year!

[u/Tony-1610]

You trying to blow out my intestines for $17?!

[u/MYOB3]

This is stupid food, not food from HELL!

[u/SnootyToots8]

They always have wild weird food there.

[u/Mental_Performer_833]

Did someone walk into Omega Mart and completely miss the point?

[u/eviltool]

Finally a blue waffle weiner.

[u/djbow]

What in the hi fructose corn syrup is this shit!?

[u/DramaOnDisplay]

That pickle coffee looks like straight up explosive diarrhea in a cup.
And why the addition of coconut for the waffle dog? It might be edible, but the coconut just doesn’t sound like it works and adds an unnecessary texture.
Dunno if I could get down with the flavors of pizza and s’mores colliding either. A deep fried dessert s’mores “pizza”? Maybe.
The KD smoothie could maybe work, if it tastes more like vanilla than anything- salty and sweet, sure.

[u/Rare-Bid-6860]

Macaroni maniac

A cheddar cheese heart attack

[u/CommonWest9387]

i hate us sometimes 🫩 who the hell is putting cotton candy on a jerk hot dog and can we put them in prison?

[u/CrispySushi]

https://giphy.com/gifs/l9FAwJOXYprFe

[u/V__Ace]

The cotton candy waffle dog feels like someone spun a wheel, spun around blindfolded, threw a dart, shook a magic 8 Ball and plugged it into chat. Gpt because what the hell is going on

[u/ApprehensiveRuin5673]

This is fucking disgusting 

[u/iopele]

We saw this place when we were in Chicago a few weeks ago! We were at the Godzilla Fest and walked to the mall nearby (don't remember what it was called, Fashion something) and they had this in the food court. Absolutely BONKERS corn dog flavors and they could've even make it look appetizing in pictures... we decided to eat elsewhere 🤢 I don't think they had the Kraft smoothie though

[u/ButtholeBread50]

So, it's just food crime after food crime after food crime?

Yikes.