We are in the thick of the New York State County Fair Season. For a complete list of the August fairs near you click HERE. All you have to do now is get the family in the car and head straight for the smell of all thing fried!

Delish recently ranked all of the best fair food in each State. Which delish dish do you think is named Best Fair Food in New York? Baked Mac & Cheese? Cheese Nachos? Cotton Candy? The answer to each of these is NO and the winning item will surprise you.

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Best doesn't mean favorite. We will get to YOUR Top 15 favorite foods in a moment but first we will start with the #1 overall Best Fair Food in New York, it is the Dole Whip! Maybe you tried the whip while at Disneyland or Walt Disney World? Now you can try it again at the New York State Fair.

Photo by Ava W. on Unsplash
Photo by Ava W. on Unsplash
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After an extensive social media poll of true New Yorkers, we have arrived at the Top 15 New York Fair Foods and not 1 person suggested the Dole Whip. As an honorable mention we are going with a tie with fried foods. We received votes for fried mushrooms, fried onions, fried pumpkin pie, fried pickles, fried peanut butter and jelly sandwich and fried cheesecake.

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