Over the course of nine hours at the CNE (by far the longest I have ever spent there), Minji, Daniel, and I managed to go through all the exhibitions, play roulette at the casino, buy some air plants (me) and an Italian squeegee kit (them), and eat all the extraordinarily overpriced junk food we wanted to try this year:
Dilly Ranch Twisted Pickle
Tanghulu Mochi Doughnut
Wasabi Soft Serve Ice Cream
Fruity Pebbles Fried Chicken with Lime Dipping Sauce
Ruffles All Dressed Fried Chicken with Dill Pickle Dipping Sauce
Fried Soft Shell Crab "Kaarage" with Sriracha Mayo
Crème Brûlée Soft Serve Chimney Cone
Deep-Fried Pickle Oreos
Ube Sesame Corn
Deep-Fried Pickles
Deep-Fried Hickory Corn Ribs
Deep-Fried Cheese Curds and Curly Fries
Winners for me were the twisted pickle (so good, we almost got two), the Fruity Pebbles fried chicken (especially with the lime dip — a perfect combination of sweet, salty, and tangy), the soft shell crab (amazing texture and flavour — if it wasn't $20 each, we would've gotten another one), and the Tiny Tom's doughnuts (a classic for a reason; and did you really go to the CNE if you didn't get some Tiny Tom's doughnuts?). The most disappointing was the tanghulu mochi doughnut (sickly sweet, and I thought the fruit would be more incorporated into the doughnut somehow rather than just a skewer sitting on top), the Ruffles All Dressed fried chicken (the fried chicken was decent enough, but we could barely taste the All Dressed chips), the crème brûlée soft serve Chimney Cone (the burnt sugar and custard were just sitting on top so once you get past that top layer, it's just vanilla soft serve), and the deep-fried pickle Oreos (even the thick layer of sweet deep-fried dough could not hide the fact that pickles and Oreos just do not go together).
And in case you're wondering, all of this cost $90.34 per person (not including entry tickets and parking). I wasn't kidding when I said "extraordinarily overpriced," because we could each have had a pretty lavish steak dinner for the cost of all this junk food. I guess we really made up for not going during the pandemic years. On another note, thank you to the guy at "Fool the Guesser" who thought I was still 27. At least Minji's $10 didn't go to waste and she got a stuffed frog plushie out of it.
Canadian National Exhibition
Exhibition Place
210 Princes' Blvd.
Toronto, ON M6K 3C3
(416) 263-3330
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