Corn Dog and Nachos were invented at Texas State Fair (Houston Chronicle; Independent of London)

[Barry Popik]

What should I do? Write to this guy? It won't make a difference.
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I should have killed myself years ago. Maybe some Texas Fried Cookie
Dough will do it.
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http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5194018.html
Oct. 6, 2007, 8:28PM
SUNDAY CONVERSATION
State fair: It's a great ride
Errol McKoy, who grew up in the North Texas town of Quanah, attended
his first State Fair of Texas as a teenager. He became its president
in 1988 after a career as a theme park executive. The 65-year-old
McKoy is presiding over his 20th fair, a tenure so long he said some
people call him the "cars, cows, corndogs and culture man." The fair
runs through Oct. 21 at Dallas' Fair Park. McKoy stepped off the
midway for a few minutes to answer questions from the Houston
Chronicle's Dallas Bureau Chief Thomas Korosec.

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Q: What's with all the fried food? All seven of your Big Tex Choice
Awards winners and honorable mentions this year came straight from the
fryer. The winner, we see, was Texas Fried Cookie Dough, followed by
Deep Fried Latte.

A: If you look back over time, the corn dog was invented here. Nachos
were invented here. We have always had new foods, and over the last 10
years we have encouraged the idea of generating new fried food items.

Q: So you've taken the corn dog and worked from there?

A: We want to go beyond the corn dog and nachos. We've had a number of
items invented now, and we're going to sit back and see which ones
have staying power.

Q: Which ones would you bet on?

A: We think fried Coke, as crazy as it seems, will have a lot of
staying power just because of the name. The guy who invented that one,
Abel Gonzalez, has won our contest three years in a row. First it was
the fried peanut butter and jelly and banana sandwich, followed by
fried Coke and fried cookie dough this year. I like the fried cookie
dough.

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thomas.korosec at chron.com
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http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article3021364.ece
Hershey chief quits as Mars edges ahead
By Leonard Doyle in Washington
Published: 03 October 2007
The increasingly fierce competition in the US confectionery business
yesterday claimed its most high-profile victim yet, as Richard Lenny,
chief executive of the Hershey Company, quit in frustration at the
failure of America's largest chocolate-maker to keep up with Mars. Mr
Lenny, 55, who joined Hershey's in 2001 from Kraft Foods, told the
board over the weekend of his plan to depart, Hershey's spokesman Kirk
Saville said yesterday.

"There's been some disappointing performance and there's no question
the man's been under some intense pressure," said Marvin Roffman, an
analyst at Roffman Miller Associates in Philadelphia, which owns
Hershey's shares.

Hershey's is fighting in a rapidly developing market, where the latest
fad is fried Coke. At the State Fair of Texas, where the corn-dog was
invented in 1941, customers have been lining up for deep-fried
Coca-Cola-flavoured batter, topped off with whipped cream, cinnamon
sugar and a cherry.

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