See what's cooking at the CNE for 2017

By Erica Salyi-Pannozzo

Feast your eyes on this! The CNE is back for another season, complete with all the weird and wonderful fair foods being cooked up in the Food Building and Midway. You can try deep-friend chicken feet, charcoal funnel cake, mega sandwiches and much, much more. Toronto favourites are on site serving up special dishes made specifically for The Ex like Bacon Nation, Buster's Sea Cove, Hot Bunzz and Fran's - you'll want to try these tasty treats while you can! From food truck fare to over-the-top street food, there's enough deep fried and bacon topped morsels for everyone  in 2017!

The CNE runs August 18 to September 4. See you in the Food Building!

[Feature image credit: Cookie Monster and S'mores chimney cones from Chimney Stax by Jennifer D'Agostino]

CNE staple Bacon Nations has done it again this year with the All-Canadian Red Hot Burger. Beef burger, bacon (natch) and a fried egg is topped with a bright red bun. The flaming colour comes from the Frank's Red Hot sauce baked directly into the bun!

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Bacon Nation's second offering is the Pancake Bacon Tacos. Buttermilk pancakes are stuffed with fried and scrambled egg, tomato, green pepper, onion and maple bacon strips. The whole concoction is drizzled with chipotle syrup.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Toronto's black ice cream trend has made it to the CNE in Bacon Nation's Charcoal Funnel Cake.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

One of the more outrageous eats this year, the deep fried chicken feet has everyone buzzing this year. Are you brave enough to try one? Coco Concessions is located on the Midway.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

One of Toronto's favourite food trucks is serving up some serious street eats at the CNE this year. Fidel Gastros has created the Crab Mac burger, a take on the Big Mac, with crab cakes instead of beef.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

There are five ways to get jiggy with piggy at Hot Bunzz this year. Packed inside this portable bun is pork five ways: slow roasted five-spice pork belly, slow roasted pulled pork, sweet longanisa sausage, crispy pork skin and a Shanghai pork soupy dumpling. The whole thing is topped with Okonomiyaki sauce, Japanese mayo and a honey apple slaw.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Now this is a sandwich! The sammy is stacked with breaded veal and a pulled pork panzerotti, topped with sweet BBQ sauce, creamy slaw and jalapenos. The whole thing is garnished with two deep fried brownies for dessert!

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Cheese lovers unite! The popular Farm to Fryer food stall has packed macaroni and cheese curds into a burrito shell and deep fried it. The result is ooey gooey cheesy goodness!

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Everyone's favourite nacho chip gets the CNE treatment this year at Farm to Fryer. Marble cheddar is coated in a Dorito crust and then, you guessed it, deep fried.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

The creative minds behind Eative have come up with a dessert fit for Game of Thrones fans! The crepe is dipped in liquid nitrogen and when eaten produces a fog-like gas that diners can blow through their nose and mouth.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Modeled after the CN Tower, this towering dessert features a brownie topped with a scoop of cheesecake and a sugar cone dipped in white chocolate, a confetti doughnut, cotton candy and powdered sugar. You can grab one of these desserts in the Food Building.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

You don't have to get up early to enjoy eggs and bacon! The team at Eat My Bowls has dreamed up the perfect breakfast to go: pancake bowl, scrambled eggs and bacon bits, topped with maple syrup.

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Not your traditional ice cream sandwich, this version has creamy ice cream squashed between two doughnuts instead of cookies!

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

These little sweet dough pockets are stuffed with peanut butter Sriracha  filling, dusted with cinnamon icing sugar and finished with chocolate syrup. Yes!

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The cheese is the star of this "poutine," with deep fried curds acting as the base for various toppings like maple syrup or traditional gravy.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]

Philthy Philly's has combined a traditional cheesesteak sandwich with strawberry shortcake. The steak is covered with provolone cheese and topped with strawberry sauce and icing sugar. The traditional bread is replaced with a sweet doughnut bun.

[Photo credit: Jennifer D'Agostino]