CNE delicacies

Above, deep fried butter.

If you have not done so already, here are some of the more interesting food items to check out at the CNE this year.

At the kiosk outside of the Direct Energy Building, look for the enormous line up. There you can get deep fried butter, deep fried Twinkies, deep fried Mars bars, chocolate covered bacon.


Inside the Direct Energy Building and the Arts and Crafts Building are stalls that sell Carmichael's meat. They mostly sell jerky and summer sausage but there are some very exotic offerings this year such as camel, kangaroo, biltok (?), in addition to their usual wild boar, alligator, emu, and pepperoni sticks (which are addictive and delicious).

Only other thing of note this year are the beautiful miniature orchid plants (4-5 inches tall) for $13 at the Direct Energy Building. My mom seemed to like that more than the kangaroo jerky.