Great Deep-Frying Minds Think Alike: Twisted Root Debuts Fried Pop Tarts

Sara Kerens

This is how Isaac Rousso fries Pop-Tarts

Boso, executive chef of Twisted Root Burger Co. and Cowboy Chow, created five fried dishes to celebrate Fair season, but admits his fried chocolate and strawberry Pop-Tarts have been the runaway customer favorite.

"It's a lot of fun," he says.

Boso, who prefers fried ice cream, hasn't yet sampled Isaac Rousso's Deep Fried S'mores Pop-Tart, which dazzled Big Tex Choice Award judges.

"I didn't even know they were having them," he says. "I probably wouldn't have done it if I knew."

Boso's Fair-inspired line-up also includes deep-fried peaches and cream, a bacon-wrapped deep-fried hot dog, a deep-fried slider and - at the Roanoke location only - green chile cotton candy.

"It's pretty weird to taste spice through sugar," Boso says. "It's more of an interest thing. People try it and say 'what the hell?' I don't think anyone wants to eat the whole thing."

While the deep-fried foods will be retired when the fair ends, Boso plans to keep experimenting with cotton candy; vanilla latte cotton candy's on next month's menu. But the treat will remain a Roanoke-only special.

"It's the only store where I have room for the cotton candy maker," he explains.