The favorite new fried foods at the State Fair of Texas this year are Big Red Chicken Bread, Ruth's Stuffed Fried Taco Cone, and Fla'Mango Tango, according to a panel of judges. Those three concessions items will likely be some of the biggest sellers during the fair's run in Dallas from Sept. 27 through Oct. 20.

Ruth's Stuffed Fried Taco Cone was named "best taste-savory". Big Red Chicken Bread was named "best taste-sweet". Fla'Mango Tango was picked as the "most creative" dish.

Big Red Chicken Bread, created by Brent and Juan Reaves, won the Big Tex Choice Award for "best taste - sweet." It comes with a bittersweet side story: The Reaves' dad John "Smokey" Reaves died yesterday. (Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer)

When asked what the win for Ruth's Stuffed Fried Taco Cone means to her, 85-year-old concessionaire Ruth Hauntz said, "It's like winning the Super Bowl!"

Ruth's Stuffed Fried Taco Cone is a tortilla stuffed with barbacoa, black beans and cilantro-lime rice. Hauntz was honored in 2016 for her award-winning fried Jell-O.

The Reaves family's Big Red Chicken Bread, another winner, is a fried chicken wing sitting in a Big Red-infused doughnut. The win was extra special for brothers Brent and Juan Reaves because their dad John "Smokey" Reaves, the namesake for their restaurant Smokey John's Bar-B-Que, died Saturday.

The final winner, for "most creative," is a fried mango dish called the Fla'Mango Tango that comes with a side of strawberry-mango sorbet. The family that created it, the Garzas, won last year for their arroz con leche.

The Fla'Mango Tango by the Garza family is the State Fair of Texas' "most creative" dish at the Big Tex Choice Awards this year. (Lynda M. Gonzalez / Staff Photographer)

Each year since 2005, the Big Tex Choice Awards has showcased some of the most innovative, odd foods that the State Fair of Texas has seen. Past winners include fried Coke, fried Thanksgiving dinner and fried beer.

The winners of the Big Tex Choice Awards were announced at a spirited ceremony Sunday afternoon in Fair Park, where attendees paid $125 per ticket to get the news first. Notably, those high-dollar tickets also got attendees a rare taste of all 10 Big Tex Choice Awards finalists. This event is the only time the 10 finalists are able to be sampled, in one place, before the State Fair of Texas kicks off.

Watch Sarah Blaskovich and Texas Monthly barbecue editor Daniel Vaughn sample all 10 Big Tex Choice Awards finalists.

The fate of the favorite foods was up to a panel of seven celebrity judges and one passionate fairgoer.

Ruth's Stuffed Fried Taco Cone is one of the winners of the State Fair of Texas' Big Tex Choice Awards in 2019. Ruth Hauntz, center, is one of the oldest concessionaires at the fair, at age 85. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

The 2019 Big Tex Choice Awards judges were city dignitaries Dallas mayor Eric Johnson and Dallas councilman Adam Bazaldua; chefs Anastacia Quiñones-Pittman of Jose, Chad Houser of Cafe Momentum and Samir Dhurandhar of Nick & Sam's; restaurateur Kyle Noonan of The Rustic and Mutts Canine Cantina; reality TV star LeeAnne Locken of Real Housewives of Dallas; and a randomly selected member of the audience Charles Archer.

Dallas Mayor Eric Johnson and his son, William, try the Big Red Chicken Bread during the Big Tex Choice Awards on Sunday, August 25. (Ashley Landis / Staff Photographer)

All 10 Big Tex Choice Awards finalists will be honored at their concessions stands with a special sign, which helps fairgoers find the 10 "celebrity" foods, as we called them in a story last week. But as any of those 10 concessionaires will tell you, the top three winning spots yield the highest profits.

This year's Big Tex Choice Awards contest started with 49 entries.

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