I hate sweet potatoes. I don’t mean I dislike them. I mean I harbor deep, deep hatred for them. I want sweet potatoes to die.

(They even brought me to tears once. I was attempting a sweet potato hash recipe from Rachael Ray. The sweet potatoes involved were super hard, and cutting them into 1/2-inch cubes proved even harder. I saw blood. Let’s just say, this was only resolved when my boyfriend sent me upstairs to take a bath and relax while he finished dinner.)

Considering those feelings, you might think I’d run the other direction from sweet potato fries. But I once — ONCE, ONLY — had sweet potatoes that I didn’t wish bad things upon, and those were homemade sweet potato chips (topped with cinnamon sugar and eaten with cinnamon cream cheese).

So I figured I’d give the spuds another chance in the spirit of trying some new fair food.

Sweet potato fries

As I was out looking for food I found a booth were everything, and I mean everything, was fried. I considered trying fried green tomatoes, but I’ve never even seen the movie. I resisted ordering an old favorite, fried pickles (which I fell in love with at Ghoulardi’s in Lorain).

I summoned all my strength and ordered the sweet potato fries. I topped them with maple syrup and cinnamon sugar.

And … I survived. And there weren’t even any tears!

They were actually pretty good, though I’d consider them more of a dessert item than lunch, which was what I’d been out hunting. I think the take-home lesson from this is … if you don’t like it, just throw a pound of sugar at it!

What fair food should I try next? Leave me a comment or contact me directly, and your suggestion could be my lunch!