Every year at the Wisconsin State Fair, new items appear on a stick. For example, in 2011, the fair introduced a deep fried bacon-wrapped hot dog on a stick, Sprecher root beer cookies on a stick and the "Elvis," a deep fried peanut butter cup in banana batter on – you guessed it – a stick.

Kudos to the folks that sit around and dream up new stickable food items for the fair every year. It is one of the many aspects of the event that provides a culture that's different from other festivals. And lots of foods work well on a skewer.

But some foods are definitely more successful stick foods than others. And because of this fact, the editors of OnMilwaukee.com got to thinking about edible items that should never, under any circumstances, get stabbed. Even for the love of the Wisconsin State Fair.

Renee Lorenz
Reporter
Already a calorie bomb in its own right, I can just see poutine being the next big thing at the 2012 State Fair. The Canadian dish of french fries, gravy and cheese curds has a perfect second home in Wisconsin, and smashing it together and throwing it on a stick seems like a natural next step when you stack it up against other seemingly impossible stick foods like cheesesteak, mac 'n' cheese and ravioli already in existence. Stick-less, it's the kind of indulgence that's already got that sinfully good appeal. Once it's on a stick, though, it's just another run-of-the-mill deep-fried novelty.

Molly Snyder
Associate editor
I hope to never see anything too healthy on a stick at the fair. Over-indulging is part of the State Fair fun, and if, suddenly, you could get a plain ol' carrot on a stick with a side of low-fat Ranch dressing or a steamed, butter-less head of cauliflower on a stick, the beauty of the decadently delicious sticked items would be compromised. Also, I also do not think we need any more phallic stick foods. We have pickles, corn dogs and cheese tubes. That's enough, thanks.

Bobby Tanzilo
Managing editor
Deep fried butter. It barely works without a stick, adding one would only likely make things even messier. On the other end of the spectrum, a green salad. Or wait, maybe that could work ...

Andy Tarnoff
Publisher
Eating food on a stick is fun, sure, but sometimes it doesn't work. If food is so gooey or sloppy that it begs to be eaten with a spork, it just doesn't always work on a stick. I'm certainly not too fancy to eat from a skewer, but I'm no caveman, either. If it's sticky, runny, slippery or gelatinous, "stick food" tends to land on my face and on my shirt, and rarely into my mouth.