Deep Fried Money at the State Fair of Texas

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A new documentary on The State Fair of Texas offers a peek at the money behind all those fried Oreos and funnel cakes.

Deep Fried Dynasty

Not so much. Slow your roll before quitting you day job to make an easy million on the next big fried food sensation. The food court in the Tower Building at the State Fair of Texas is refuge on rainy days. Booths that are outside are left to cry in their cooking oil.Longtime vendor Smokey John’s had four booths at the fair last year. Sons of Smokey John, Brent and Juan Reaves, are featured on the show where they sell thousands of pounds of turkey legs dipped in a homemade barbecue sauce.

Gonzales’ goal is to make $12,000 a day. That’s a lot of fried peanut butter and jelly sandwiches. But, to demonstrate the costs associated with being a vendor at the fair, on the 10th day of business, it downpours and Gonzales says, his eyes wide with stress,"if it rained from here on out, I’m in the hole $75,000. By end of the fair, I’m in the hole maybe $100K."

On the first day of the fair, their funnel cakes weren’t cooking properly. The outside was too brown and the consistency was off — too chewy. They eventually figured out that the premade mix they'd bought had too much egg yolk and not enough egg white. That was $48,000 worth of over-yolked product down the drain. Fortunately, they were able to track down another brand that day and it worked perfectly. They were back in business.

 

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