As hard as it may be to imagine any state fair, carnival, theme park or baseball game without the classic corn dog, there was a time society functioned without this classic snack.
You can trace America’s anything-on-a-stick obsession back to July 5, 1927, when a U.S. inventor named Stanley S. Jenkins filed a patent for a “Combined Dipping, Cooking, and Article Holding Apparatus.”
Jenkins sought to patent a new method and machine for serving foods impaled on sticks, dipped in a batter and deep fried. The apparatus could hold skewered batter-jacketed foods in a liquid cooking medium while the batter is cooked. The individual sticks made for easy individual extraction….