Late summer means county fairs and midways, and that means food-on-a-stick. Popsicles, shishkabobs and corndogs are familiar examples of food-on-a-stick and probably are available at your local county fair. The others shown here, maybe not so much.
Click on for some truly great food-on-a-stick.
Tuna jerky flavoured with soy sauce, fish sauce, and rice wine, topped with black and white sesame seeds, fresh ginger, lemongrass, and candied grapefruit peel. (Source)
A one-bite ball of spun sugar, with frozen licorice cake at the center. Anise and orange accents. (Source.)
Fried alligator. (Source.)
Bacon lollipops: bacon and pecan covered cheese-balls-on-a-stick. (Source.)
Cooked chicken eggs on a stick, seen in Thailand. (Source.)
Food that is a stick. Pocky sticks, to be exact. A biscuit stick covered in chocolate, popular in Japan. (Source.)
Sashimi on a stick! Slices of high quality raw tuna flavoured with soy sauce. (Source.)
Making satay in a street stall in Malaysia. (Source.)