The Boardwalk, Seaside Heights, and Food
Pizza. Italian sausage sandwiches. Kohr’s frozen desert. These are some of my favorite treats to eat at the boardwalk in Seaside Heights, NJ. There are other boardwalks specialties too, some old and some new. Zeppoles are one of the former. Fried dough, with or without powdered sugar. A newer boardwalk food is deep fried oreos. Six of them for $5. The chocolate outside of the cookie turns fluffy, the icing melts into the outer biscuit and the batter on the outside is cooked to a golden brown. It is delicious. A little over the top though as these must be enough calories for a single day for the average adult.
The calories to be ingested on the boardwalk can be real dangerous to anyone’s diet. Especially when you have the vacation mentality many of us bring to a place like Seaside Heights. That little diet voice inside your head starts saying things like “I am on vacation so I can enjoy myself a little bit.” This is true. Yet it doesn’t take much to really push your caloric intake into the stratosphere if you start sampling from the boardwalk menu.
I always have the best intentions to not eat to much of this boardwalk food whenever I am there. I think my willpower has gone out the window every time. Judging by the lines you can encounter at any of the food stands, I don’t think I am the only one that eats more than I originally intended.