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by Bethany Halford | September 09, 2021
—Fried Bubblegum, Poultry Plastic “” Last fall, when Newscripts covered the debut of fried beer at the State Fair of Texas (C&EN, Oct. 18, 2010, page 48), we wondered what on Earth those groundbreaking Texans would try to fry next. The answer: bubblegum, a version of which succeeded fried beer in winning this year’s “Most Creative” Big Tex Choice Award. The creation that won the award was actually a bubblegum-flavored marshmallow, coated in pink batter and fried, then drizzled with blue icing and sprinkled with multicolored Chiclets. But creator Justin Martinez, who runs food service company Fiesta Enterprises, did in fact first try to fry real bubblegum.
by Jyllian Kemsley | September 26, 2011