I hijacked the thread myself, so it may officially be considered re-flagged under a neutral nation.

I'm recovering from a bad day yesterday, still reading stuff though.

Chips and I are acquainted. Yikes!

But, hey! it is State Fair time here in the US Midwest, and we can match you arterial blockage for arterial blockage. Corn dogs, chicken-fried bacon, deep-fried corn chowder, deep-fried Twinkies. But top of the list, IMO, is deep-fried butter. That's right!

Take a stick of butter. Insert a serving stick and freeze the butter solid. Dip in batter and deep-fry. Take a big, ol' bite. Call your cardiologist.

I can top deep-fried butter. I found a stand selling deep-fried lard with a butter dipping sauce.

I'm having problems with the deep fried butter - it's one of those things that is so unbelievable it goes almost all the way round to plausible. My mind is officially blown........

[edit - I had to google it - it's not April and I've done the Lucid Dreaming reality checks - I've obviously taken a wrong turn somewhere and ended up in a crazier universe than the one I started in]

C13G' Sorry to hear about the bad day - Hope whatever made it so is history now.....

Halsey: Affirmative. Deep fried lard is a topper!

IVV: Please google state fair food. And remember, people pay money for and eat this stuff!

c13G: Hang in there. TGIF.

Yeah - have seen the Paula Deen deep-fried butterballs etc.. - In any case I'm not doubting your word - It's just that when I try to find a rational explanation for why someone would eat a stick of butter, fried in batter, the best I can come up with is either this is an incredibly robust hallucination, or I've slipped into a parallel universe where a coronary is an incredibly desirable thing. Have you considered that you may have been infiltrated by alien lifeforms with an addiction to human blubber, and they're trying to fatten you all up for a feast of some kind??

IVV, it wasn't about doubt. Deep-fried butter is perhaps the most egregious example (excepting deep-fired LARD!), but "State Fair food" includes a lot of impressive concoctions. I suggested the google for your enjoyment, not as evidence. There's the deep-fried bacon-wrapped riblet on a stick, the deep-fried bacon-wrapped chili cheese dog on a stick, the deep-fried cheesecake on a stick (No bacon on that one! Although there is a deep-fried bacon-wrapped Snickers bar.)

Aliens? I lived in Los Angeles for 35 years. I thought Men in Black was a documentary.

Actually, when I see all the politically correct, be-healthy-we're doing-this-for-your-own-good propaganda we are assaulted with, I suspect it is a socially acceptable form of rebellion. "Once a year, you can eat this stuff. Next week, back to broccoli."