No Surprises Here: Fried Cheese Curds are Wisconsin’s Go-To Comfort Food

(WTAQ-METRO) — A recent report released by WalletHub shows Wisconsinites reach for tradition when they are looking for comfort food.

Fried Cheese Curds earned top honors as the state’s most popular comfort food.

However, there is a price to pay for that comfort as Wisconsin Fried Cheese Curds will set the diet back a bit at about 12-hundred calories per serving–that makes it the most fattening of all the foods on the list.

The finding was part of a study on the nation’s most obese states, in which Wisconsin ranked 23rd.