Your New County Fair Food is . . . a Deep Fried Slim-Fast Bar

America’s fried food innovators have spent the past several decades trying to figure out how to make snacks even MORE unhealthy through deep frying. And from Twinkies to Oreos to Snickers bars, they’ve succeeded.

So what do you do when you run out of junk food to deep fry?

Apparently . . . this.

46-year-old “Chicken” Charlie Boghosian is a fried food legend, and every year he debuts new creations at the San Diego County Fair. This year, he’s come up with a deep-fried SLIM-FAST bar.

The Slim-Fast chewy chocolate bar is a snack for people who are dieting and clocks in around 200 calories. Charlie coats it in batter, deep fries it, and coats it in powdered sugar and chocolate . . . which adds about 500 calories.

He says he got the idea because he has been dieting on and off and would eat the Slim-Fast bars to replace meals. When he was brainstorming what new thing to fry this year, he picked it because, quote, “it was a total oxymoron.”

For what it’s worth, he says it’s delicious. Quote, “I honestly think this is better than my deep-fried Oreo, which is the thing I’m most famous for.”

They’ll be available at the San Diego County Fair, which runs through July 4th weekend.

Here’s the story from the Huffington Post.