Chef Tiffany Derry ate all the Big Tex Choice Awards foods so you don’t have to (via EaterDallas)
. Still, she’s the ideal person to eat your way through the fair with, someone who has not missed a fair while she’s lived in Dallas and her favorite thing to do is to walk around and eat. She always gets a funnel cake with strawberries and cream, a turkey leg with lots of yellow mustard, and catfish from Floyd’s.
“This tortilla concoction [that makes the sandwich bread] is holding in the bacon and the cheese and it’s fried,” Derry explains. “Then the mayo, lettuce, and tomato are inside. I’m gonna take another bite.” After the first bite, Derry says, “Right now I’m just thanking God for all his goodness and mercy. The biscuit is so flaky, by itself it’s an amazing biscuit. There’s gonna be spillage when you eat this and you’ve gotta be okay with that. Why are you even at the fair if you’re afraid to get your clothes messed up?” Touche.Get down to the bottom of the Cha-Cha Chata.
“This would be amazing in a wine bar,” Derry says. She’s right, of course; getting yourself a batch and walking over to the wine tent is a great idea. “It’s a delicate bite. This isn’t my favorite of all, but it feels like it’s almost on to something and isn’t quite there. It also needs more filling — more of everything. This is a dish that’s laborious to make, and they have to stuff every last one of these themselves, which is tough.
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