In our country’s quest to create ever weirder delicacies, we can thank entrepreneur chef “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian, 42, for coming up with this summer’s must-have item: Fried Kool-Aid. “It tastes just like the drink, only you are eating it,” claims Boghosian.
The fried balls of batter and Kool-Aid powder first appeared at the San Diego County Fair on June 10. Boghosian sold up to 600 orders a day from a mobile vendor. Orders cost $5.95 and included five red balls. On Father’s Day, the topic trended on Twitter, and a sensation was born.
The fair food chef and frying fiend has dipped a wide variety of items into his fryalator, including Pop Tarts, Klondike Bars, and Girl Scout Thin Mints cookies. Some of his well-known concoctions include deep-fried Coca-Cola, a deep-fried peanut butter, banana, and honey sandwich, and deep-fried spam. Boghosian claims, though, that the Fried Kool Aid is already outselling his other items by a ratio of 2:1. “We have sold over 500 pounds of Kool-Aid mix and thousands of pounds of flour,” he says.
Boghosian will not reveal the actual recipe for the Fried Kool-Aid, but no one seems to care. The novelty of eating a fried liquid that is both a fond childhood memory and a nutritionist’s nightmare seems to quell any fears about what it actually contains. Come on. Admit it. You know you want to try just one.
*guest blog post by Stephanie