Forget cotton candy, funnel cakes, and deep fried snickers and oreos, this year’s latest fair-food craze is… deep fried Kool-aid balls.
“Chicken” Charlie Boghosian, the inventor of the Kool-Aid ball, started working fairs when he was 14 as a summer job. At age 22 he went into business for himself, selling pressure-fried chicken and his self-created deep-fried delicacies as desserts.
Now at age 42 Boghosian has invented more than 100 deep-fried treats to sell at fairs in California. Although he offers a myriad of other food, (charbroiled chicken,kebabs, rotisserie chicken and salads to name a few) deep-fried food and desserts are his passion.
“I really love what I do,” said the deep-fry king everyone calls Chicken Charlie told the Star from the San Diego State Fair. “I wouldn’t want to change what I have today . . . there’s no better place than the fair.”
So how are the deep-fry king’s Kool-aid balls doing at this year’s San Diego State Fair?
In the opening weekend alone, Boghosian plowed through 150-pounds of Kool-Aid powder and 1,500 pounds of flour, as hungry fairgoers gobbled down his latest deep-fried delicacy. No word yet on how many packets of Tums were sold during the same period.
Check out the video below to hear Chicken Charlie talk about his latest deep-fry creation.
via Star
I need to try this asap.
Only in America.
Oh my…what will they fry next?
WHAT IN THE HELL?
wtf? never heard of it but it sounds good.
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Breaks out the deep fat fryer!
That man is making many people really fat. lol
Well there goes my diet…will try it.
looks like rocky mountain oysters to me.
I see Jack Kevorkian's legacy lives on! A new form of assisted suicide……SMH.
More fat ppl
Does he look skinny to you?…lol
its just kool-aid flavored doughnuts.
He better patent that batter.. quick!
Why does this scream Kevin Zemann and Ann Welsh Zemann to me?
I feel my arteries clogging just watching this. What next? Deep fried Ice cream?
No wonder why Americans are in the lead of the most obese people in the world!
Is there nothing people won't deep fry?
I like kool aid but fried? Stretching it…
Deep Fried KOOL AID BALLS? Sounds like the fools who voted ObaMao into office in '08! lol
they already have fried ice cream
Heyyyyy, Kool Aid! You been smokin' Dat Shi** again, and fried up some Kool Aid Balls! Jeeezzeeeee
THEY ALREADY HAVE THAT
http://www.howtomakeicecreamvideo.com/how-to-make-deep-fried-ice-cream
they have that already
I used to find these kind of comments offensive, but as the years have gone by I have to agree. It is getting out of hand over here!
Thats the same shit I was thinking. At what point in your life do you stop to think. You know what, maybe deep fried kool-aide will taste good.
You let us know how it turned out from the I.C.U.
Are you serious?
that shit sound crazy…what? a sour doe taste?
If this does not prove that we are a growing nation of over-weight people battling food addiction, I don't know what does. Who in the world needs to eat deep fat fried kool-aid other than someone the size of a blue whale? Unless you're aiming to become the size of a blue whale!
Very true just gotta hit the track for a 10k to run it off. Lol
Yeah Japanese restaurants serve a nice fried ice cream
But fried Kool Aid-flour, water and kool aid in oil? Nutrition has reached a new low.
This is CAN'T be healthy! And they wonder why Americans are over weight. SMH
I'll be shocked if the publisher/author of this page doesn't get sued for using Family Guy's picture of the Kool-Aid man.
Not that I agree with all the fried food out there but these are no worst then a doughnut.
that's ridiculously disgusting. if you really want to try one of these you probably need to stick your head in a deep fryer. then again your brain is probably fried already.
no wonder America is #1 in obesity!
jonita.. u say more fat people.. yet.. youre picture takes up the whole screen? hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
figures that the fat chick says "its just flavored doughnuts" this is why this country is going to shit.
First off you forgot to add sexy and I was saying this is something to make ppl fat and why your trying to be a smart ass that is a close up pic so of course it's wide.You must be ugly as hell because I don't see your mugshot. You don't know me so why be disrespectful do u need to try to down ppl to bring your self up if so look in the mirror and say I am somebody even if you are a jack ass I love how insecure ass dudes like u get on the internet and try to jump hard everybody clap for Joshua he needs attention I bet you were the guy that got picked on in high school so now your just a major dick or is your dick so little that u gotta start shit with other ppl because u are unhappy in your life. I am happy with who I am and I get no complaints at all from my guy my size doesn't make me who I am my personality does.
Jesus, take the wheel!
yea! or more like strawberry flavored hush puppies! I thought they were pretty good actually:)
fat america. I wouldn't expect anything less.
These are actually not that bad, but I only had a bite because I didn't want to have the runs afterwards…it's good to try just to see what the hype is all about. And it is the fair…so don't expect anything other than heart attack foods there!
So they cut the balls of the Kool-aid man and fried them?
don't be an a$$hole joshua
So beautiful. I might just cry.
I have to try…looks yummy…..
For all you "only in America" scoffers, relax. We're not over here eating fried kool aid 3 meals a day, 365 days a year. A small portion of mildy eccentric people occasionally try something new, and sell them at fairs and festivals. And they eat one or two of these little fried nuggets just to see what they are like. (Also, from the sound of it, "150 lbs of kool aid powder and 1500 lbs of flour" – sounds like it's just kool-aid flavored CAKE batter, or in other words donuts) I'm pretty sure a differently flavored donut isn't as exotic as the article wants you to think.
yep, I read in the article that he used 150 lbs of kool aid powder and 1500 lbs of flour. It's exactly that, with 10 times as much flour as kool aid. Might be a decent idea however. There are recipes for cakes using either Kool Aid or Jello for flavoring and jello isn't that much different. he should make "deep fried Jello" too !!
Yeah, Dee – I understand and accept that you have the right to NOT try eating one if you want. But don't tell everyone else they HAVE to injure themselves if they want to try ONE just to see what they are like. You have the freedom to say "no" to fried kool aid, be understanding enough to let others have their freedom to say "yes" to it if they want to.
news flash, twinkle toes – Everyone in america doesn't eat fried kool aid 3 times a day, 365 days a year. maybe 1 American in 10,000 will ever have these, and then only once or twice a year at fairs or something. (yet, most of the people on food stamps are morbidly super-obese)
And this is why Americans are so over weight!
@joshua..asshole
Wow this is sad…..our country already contains a staggering number of obese people, why would he create MORE FRIED THINGS? We need to switch to healthy eating, not diabetes in the shape of a ball.
Joshua your an a$$hole!
PENIS!
Yes he is it's funny because he got 8likes on his ignorant comment which says alot about society. Ppl are quick to jump on the bandwagon for all the wrong reasons. Everybodies not meant to be a size 7 and I got game just like a skinny chick just ask Addam Freakbody Franklin. Joshua probably has a big girl fetish his damn self and this is how he covers it up. It's ok Joshua I am not mad at you I laugh at your type because while tryna down me someone is doing the same to you,so with that being said you have a great life.
Soooooooo……… Because she's "Over Weight" her statement becomes invalid? and her person is then subject to attack? Im not understanding your point…
Saw them on TV this a.m.–weird. So is your hubby back home?
ummmmm. I guess they are just doughnuts with koolaid sprinkled in? I haven't made Koolaid in.. decades anyway… wtf?
Ewwwww! Lol
How can you not make kool aid? Turn the bougie down to 8 man
I'm sorry, but there are some things that just don't need to be fried!!!