Fair Food 2010 - Twisted taters (or Idaho Nachos)

Twisted taters are a story of American ingenuity (assuming they come from the USA).  What else could explain the use of a power tool - an electric drill - with a custom attachment for slicing the longest potato chip you ever ate?  

The twisted tater is, of course, classic fair food.  Here is one being born:

(blogger wouldn't let me upload the video, don't know why, so youtube will have to do) Hypnotic, isn't it?  It won't be long until legends of tater twisters achieving nirvana via the tater twisting as mind elevating meditation are spawned.

Wisely, after they fry your giant potato, there is a table of fixins.  Not unlike your baked potato bar, the twisted tater bar allows for serious potato customization.  You can, as I did, apply seasoned salt and Tapatio sauce, a myriad of other hot sauces, a bunch of different flavored salts, ketchup, mustard, and more.

It tastes really good.  It has kettle chip texture as opposed to french fry or hash brown texture.  It is thin and has a nice crunch.  If you season it,  well, it tastes just as good as the seasoning you put on it.  In fact, it is as if a lawyer invented it.  Does your twisted tater suck?  Well, you seasoned it, not them.  It is also  large serving, but easy to eat.  When you're done, you think - did I just eat that big 'ol potato?  Yes you did.  And here are the "heart healthy" remains:

Mmmmm, cholesterol.