9 Greatest Stick Foods of All Time
Hot dogs are good, but you know what's better? Corn dogs. Because they come on sticks.
I do NOT want this creepy woman making my Hot Dog on a Stick
Chicken is delicious, but yakitori is super-delicious. Twinkies are good(ish), but deep-fried Twinkies are awe-inspiring in their fatty, lava-hot and bad-for-you greatness. Deep-fried Twinkies on a stick? That's even better.
Everything tastes better either served on a stick or made in stick-form. That's just one of those inarguable laws of nature. No one really understands why, but if this weren't the case, then why are there so many fat people at state fairs cramming their snack-holes with candy bars, pizza and SPAM on sticks? Obviously, the fat people know something. They know that modern conveniences like plates and silverware will only slow them down.
So still being in the grips of summer and summer being prime stick-food season, we've decided that the time is right for making a list of the best stick-based food items ever (to go along with our list of Worst Ever Stick Foods now online). Enjoy...
"A non-frozen balanced energy snack in rod form containing nutritionally balanced amounts of carbohydrate, fat and protein."--from the original description of the product, manufactured by Pillsbury. Sounds delicious, right? Rods are so tasty...
While food on sticks has been around since caveman days (and is probably the only form of food as old as grilling and older than barbecue), Space Food Sticks stand as the ultimate example of over-the-top modernization of the simplest thing in the world. Two funny things about Space Food Sticks? Astronauts never ate them (they were a purely consumer-oriented creation, though a version of the product did go up to Skylab as an absolute, last-ditch, total space-based emergency ration). And today, they stand as the culinary grandfather of all the bazillions of energy bars on the market.
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