CANFIELD, Ohio - There's always a new addition to the fried food menu on the midway at the Canfield Fair and this year is no different as fried Kool Aid is making its debut.

"It's the intrigue, how do you fry Kool Aid?" explained Columbus resident Melanie Seiser. "We had to try it just to tell people we did."

"It doesn't even sound good but we had to try it," added Steve Denailo of Canfield, who shared a friend sampler with Seiser.

It's drawing visitors to Kevin Koski's shop  on Canfield Drive on the midway where he fries donut batter-infused with cherry Kool Aid.  "We've taken and made Kool Aid based donut holes, so it's like eating a Kool Aid cherry donut," said Koski. "And then we have a Kool Aid glaze that we put over the top."

Like all fried food you top off the Kool Aid with a dash of powdered sugar.

There's also fried butter, which consists of pads of butter deep fried and sprinkled with sugar.

And across the fair on Miller Drive is chocolate-covered bacon.  Strips of the breakfast food are dipped in chocolate and frozen.  "It's a little salty like bacon, but with chocolate around it," said Canfield resident Ruth Ann Cannell. "It's pretty good though, not bad!"

"It's okay but you have to acquire a taste for it," added her husband Pete Cannell. "But it is delicious."

Like it or not, there'll always be something dipped, battered and fried at the fair.

"I wait all year for it!" said Boardman resident Craig Blei. He shared a giant plate of hot chips with his family. "I fast all year just for this. So I come back every year for more!"

It may not win over everyone, but there's just something about fried fair food.

"The rest of it's the ambiance.  We have dust, we have country music, we have bees, we have everything else," said Koski. "It's just part of the charm of the fair!"