Deep-fried…what?
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I recently read an article that truly disturbed me. Now, before I tell you what it is, let me confess that I am no health nut. I suffer from a mild cheeseburger addiction, I can’t say no to a slice of pizza, and I’ve been known to put away more than my fair share of tacos al pastor. I especially love anything fried –well, almost anything, which leads me into that disturbing article. It was a feature from a Dallas/Fort Worth news site talking about the finalists for the Big Tex Choice Award at this year’s State Fair of Texas. Topping the list, and I kid you not, was deep-fried butter. Yes, take a moment if you need one. Deep-fried butter. Here’s the “tantalizing” description:
“100 percent pure butter is whipped ’til light and fluffy, then specially sweetened with a choice of several flavors. It is then surrounded by a ‘special dough’ and quick-fried.”
Listen, I know that state fairs aren’t exactly a bastion of healthy eating. I know very few people, myself included, who would be satisfied to wander the midway gnawing on a celery stick and handful of goji berries, but this seems ridiculous to me: gluttonous simply for gluttony’s sake. Is this the dietary path we’re on? Have we reached the point where we’re so beyond caring about what goes into our bodies that we’re ingesting the most decadent, non-nutritional, artery clogging thing we can think of? I find it somewhat unconscionable that something so grotesque and unquestionably destructive could be considered for any award (other than, perhaps, “The Best Foods You Should Never Put into Your Body” award), especially in a state (not to mention an entire country) facing a huge obesity problem.
In the interest of balancing out the scales, so to speak, I’ve scouted out some delicious suggestions from Answers users on alternative methods for preparing some of our favorite fried foods, including chicken, fish, French fries, and falafel. Here’s hoping that next year’s entries are a little more creative and a little less deadly.
What is your opinion of the latest food fad–deep-fried butter? And what healthier alternatives can you suggest for preparing your favorite fried concoctions?
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We eat fried ice cream ( ice cream rolled in corn flakes then dropped in the deep friar for a few seconds) as a dessert in our Mexican restaurants. Why would this be such a s stretch??? Hate to tell you but fried Snicker, Milky and Butterfinger bars have graced the midways for YEARS. The heck with the candy bars, think about what a funnel cake is—- a deep fried pancake with sugar on it.
deep fired butter……..
thats wrong in so many ways……
Listen, ridicious deep fried foods isn’t a staple to anyone’s diet. The main purpose of deep fried butter isn’t to induce a heart attack. It’s to make money. The crazier, the more moolah it makes. The Texas State Fair lasts like, a month. As a Texan, it’s tradition to go to the State Fair and try out these crazy foods. I don’t go home and make my own deep fried candy bars and deep fried peaches and cream (another finalist for the Big Tex Award). It’s once a year for a reason. Obesity isn’t a factor. It’s all about how far you can go to make a buck. Maybe you should write about that, not how fat someone’s going to get by eating something so “gluttonous” as deep fried butter. Get a life.
eww gross deep fried butter? really makes you wonder what they’re gonna think of next! *o*
it’s no worse than deep fried twinkies
Deep fried butter, huh?
Well, I certainly wouldn’t try it, that’s for sure. xP
Ok I want to try it now.
Ever heard of “fried ice cream”? Where was the outrage over that?
How about alfredo sauce? It’s not deep fried, but it is chock full of fat. Again, no outrage, no “gluttonous simply for gluttony’s sake”?
I doubt it is a whole stick of butter and I doubt anyone is suggesting serving them daily. It is a novelty item in a state fair food competition. Big deal.
Moderation is the key in almost all things, and _occasional_ decadence usually won’t kill ya.
Try It
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It does taste good.
I totally agree with the writer. This is absolutely discusting! Who on Earth thought this was good? And they got an award for this so called “snack”? Yuck
WOW that is beyond gross!!!! Who thinks of this crap? Whats next? No one should be eating butter in the first place! All it is is saturated fat, your body makes saturated fat already. What your body needs is polyunsaturated fats like Canola oil(Canadian grapeseed oil) or olive oil!
Deep-fired oreos are the best~
Wow..deep fried butter. The very thought makes my stomach twist.
OMG. I almost puked in my mouth! That’s absolutely disguisting! That reminds me of deep fried twinkies… saw those in Vegas but never tried them.. maybe some day I will. Maybe some day I’ll join in this odd deep fried craze..
distgusting. Is butter really so, deep – fried? x(
I saw something recently on QVC that was a fyer that spins around whatever you are frying to get rid of up to 33% greese. I don’t really eat much of fried stuff, but I think it would be helpful for people who don’t completely want to give up their fried stuuf ^^
Instead of cooking things in canola oil use olive oil. Olive oil is proven to help with heart problems.
And really, deep fried butter? I threw up a bit when I heard that. Thanks for the article!
Last year’s winner was chicken fried bacon. I’m not surprised.
Lighten up! This is fun. This will not kill you if you do it just once. You have to have a steady diet of something over years to have an effect. Just like eating celery one time will not unclog your arteries. I cannot understand why you are making a fuss over this unless you just want attention. well you got it.
Well I agree that they could go with healthier choices,… but not of the part where you say is this the dietary path we are going down.. No it is not.. it’s just so much as that the State Fair of Texas.. Is not made to be the worlds center of health nuts.. It’s for well Texans… and I don’t know about you, but don’t we just fry everything? Steak, Chicken, okra, pickles, fries, onion rings, etc.. The State Fair is simply living up to the question “what will they fry next”. Sure this may not be their best idea.. but just because you eat it doesn’t mean your an obese moron that doesn’t know how to eat right.
i love deep fired oreo’s
I am not defending this disgusting sounding treat but butter is not that bad for you in moderation it is the factory farming industry that has taken the naturally health goodness out of butter, milk and cheese. If cows are grazed on a pasture the meat and dairy from them will be high in DHA. I just wanted to put that out there to combat the idea that butter is the most unhealthy thing a person can consume.
SO WHO CARES?
THATS HELLA GOOD.
THERES FRIED ICE CREAM TOO YA DUMB ASSES DONT JUDGE BEFORE YOU TRY!!!!!!!!!!!!
its “FRIED” josh w, F R I E D
How can you compare fried ice cream to fried butter? Ice cream is an actual dessert. Butter is a food additive. Fried ice cream is definitely the lesser of two evils here. It just goes to show you that some people will eat anything, ESPECIALLY if it is fried. Why don’t we eat fried ketchup? Or a fried leather shoe? Ugh, it is just disgusting what some people will consume, and you know that there are some foolish people who eat this regularly. It’s a shame. It’s habits like this which make non-americans judge us as being fatsos!
All of this deep fried candy makes me want to vomit. The thought of putting a stick of butter in my mouth is gross… but deep fried too? Ugh! Props to the people who can eat this stuff… but it’s just not for me!
This just made me sick
i would rather have the deep fried pepsi advertised in the pic at the top of this article.
make mine diet, though. have to cut back .
In this world of people panicking over stupid things (the swine flu shot is more likely to kill you then the swine flu) we really do not need alarm bells sounded over deep fried butter.
is anything else at a fair any healthier?
are the vapors from the frying going to escape and kill us?
deep fried anything will kill you.
Although i prefer to buy meats cheese etc from local farms and farmers markets, i too ear bad things at fairs.
oh my god, they really do make deep fried pepsi. i thought it was a joke.
I just googled it.
First of all, the thought of deep-fried butter is utterly disturbing. I love deep-fried cheesecake and funnel cakes, but that’s…horrendous. (I’m even a little grossed out by deep-fried cheesecake, but I like it anyway XD.)
Now, for the people who are going off about the article being stupid: Deep-fried butter making everyone fat is NOT the point of the article. The point is that we should all really reconsider what we ingest and create in the kitchen, especially us Americans, who have developed an alarming obesity rater. Deep-fried butter just happened to be the catalyst for the creation of the article.
If you’re eating this stuff every day, it’s obviously a terrible idea. But for a special treat at the boardwalk once or twice in the summer, what’s the big deal? There’s no such thing as a “bad” food if you’re responsible and enjoy it only in moderation. Well, in EXTREME moderation for some of these tasty fried morsels!
this is truly gross
deep fried butter was on happy tree friends
I think us Southerners would deep fry a cloud if we could just figure out how to dip it in batter.
Wow this is really something to get all up and in your face about! The fair lasts for about one month and most people will go for one or two days and maybe eat one serving or helping of this and all you self righteous protectors of the American way are up in arms. Probably while or right after downing half of a pizza or a big mac and washing it downwith a 64 ounce soda. This country and the economy and the environment and health care and etc must all be in pretty darn good shape for you to have to search for something like this to complain about!
Well I make home-made frecnh fries and tortilla chips. Their really easy and I use olive oil with a certain amount of salt. I know what goes into my friend potatoe or tortilla, making it a lot more appatizing. As for my oppinion on the butter, eewww!! That sounds revolting and utterly disgusting! I’d much rather go for the more famed “deep-fried twinkie”. I’m sure it would be much more delicious!
Wow kool you deep dry anything over there in the US, i didn’t know people deep fried all these things! Things like this make me wish i was in America. I want to give this stuff a taste. But no wonder the US has one of the most overweight/obese people, this doesn’t help, look at the fattening stuff you guys have over there! wow.
Well I make home-made french fries and tortilla chips. Their really easy and I use olive oil with a certain amount of salt. I know what goes into my fried potatoe or tortilla, making it a lot more appetizing. As for my oppinion on the butter, eewww!! That sounds revolting and utterly disgusting! I’d much rather go for the more famed “deep-fried twinkie”. I’m sure it would be much more delicious!
Sorry I had to make another response, I had some typo’s i just had to redo
The issue for me isn’t the effect it will actually have on people at the State Fair, its about the message it sends. I’m from one of the northern countries in Europe, where there is a lot of pressure not to be overweight. For us to hear about this kind of thing is quite shocking, and reinforces one of the most destructive and universal beliefs about Americans. I happen to know a lot of healthy, intelligent, really great American people, and to have a food culture that reflects this badly upon them is very sad. It doesn’t matter if it’s only one time, but at a public event, the government should be sending the message that, “no, we do not support the 2nd highest death cause in the country!” not, “yes, please eat more, get fatter, and die sooner.” Deep-fried butter probably wouldn’t do anything to you in the large scheme of things, but it’s accepting foods like this as a part of American life which causes the real harm.
Deep fried pepsi is delicious
Nah Im jk, but deep fried butter? ;0
Deep fried anything. Bad for you? Oh, yes. Anyone forcing you to eat it? Not really. We’re fat because we choose to be, not because we’re being forced to be.
you can bake just about anything that would normally be fried and in my opinion it actually tastes way better. also, regarding your picture, how the hell do you fry pepsi??
When i read “deep fried butter” i shook with disgust…how can any one eat such a thing? its light fat cooked in fat and eaten by the fat…lol it makes no sense…..
oh and jekin, yes….something eaten only once can effect one’s entire life…..
You know, while I find all of this deep-fried stuff abhorrent myself, the one common thread between the previous crazes like fried ice cream and candy bars was that people eat those on their own. What makes the deep-fried butter idea even less appealing is that most people don’t eat butter by itself.
Thanks!, now i know what to whip up to chase away fat chix!!
I am much less bothered by deep-fried butter than the fair I went to recently that had chicken-fried bacon. Personally, I think you top that with some gravy and a side of fried butter and you got a meal worthy of a cardiologist. But remember, these are what they do for fairs. Nobody seriously does this at home when they are looking through the fridge and thinking…gee I don’t have any salad, I think I will just fry up a mess of butter for dinner.
Get real. I know it is a way to sell your column and stress healthy eating, and I am a big promoter of healthy eating, but reasonable moderation is the best way to keep people from taking these one time opportunities to lifetime excess.
well yes it is nasty.thats asking for a heart attack.but than again there is lard in this situation i dont know which is worse
Yes, it’s ridiculous but think about where it’s being sold. No one is trying to market this junk in supermarkets, restaurants or anywhere sane people normally eat. No, it’s being sold in a venue historically filled with freaks, geeks, weirdos and questionable ‘treats’. Yes, if it can be wrapped in batter or cornflakes, it will be fried.
Deep fried butter…so what? Let them eat themselves to death. I honestly don’t care
Meh.
People do not form their dietary habits based upon offerings at the state fair. It’s a novelty- as in “Gee, I wonder what that tastes like?” Deep fried Twinkies have been around for a long time, but I don’t think many people have installed fat fryers in their kitchens in order to make it a daily snack food.
I see no reason to get bent out of shape- although, of course, deep fried butter lacks the nutritional qualities of staples like deep fried corn on the cob, broccoli, cauliflower, artichoke hearts, zucchini, etc.
I think deep-fried bacon is way gross.
I’ve tried deep-fried Oreo’s hmmm.. they are really good.
Like 2-3 times a year.
Deep fried butter is just ridiculous. Now, to counter the first (or last) guys comment. Only the spas people in the world would ever eat deepfried icecream! Deep fried candy bars aswell? What has the world come to?
Personally I just decide to take a spoon and eat the leftover fryer grease. It makes me as fat as I want to be in a much faster manner. Sometimes I inject it into my arteries for faster clogging. Who needs their 40’s?
I wanna try it so bad just because I can. Hopefully I won’t get a heart attack from eating it. XD
How can some of you compare butter to ice cream? I can understand fried ice cream, but fried butter? Come on people.. sounds disgusting.
Wow, some of the answers on here are a tad bit ridiculous. Seriously, can’t you see the difference between eating ICE CREAM and eating BUTTER? You can actually eat ice cream by itself. And alfredo sauce? OF COURSE the thing is full of fat. But you don’t see anyone eating bowlfuls of alfredo sauce by itself. It’s always paired up with something like pasta. Deep-friend butter IS a stretch, and any sane person I know doesn’t eat butter by itself.
That said, I’ve heard of the concept of deep-friend butter before. Just look no further than butter-loving Paula Deen. But when someone made her some, she was totally grossed out by it. “What the hell is wrong with you?” I think she said.
The deep-fried food fad caters to carnivals, fairs and such. No one makes meals of these things day after day. A crazy treat once a year won’t kill you, it’s what you eat the rest of the year that you should mind. I think the real question here is: how do they deep-fry Pepsi???
I thought you were going to describe deep fried Snickers Bar.
Heard of that.
forget what they used for batter.
gotta use some kind of batter to hold the thing together.
but….
that they are consuming deep fried butter down south doesn’t surprise me at all….
can I have a fluffernutter samwich with that?
._. The only thing I see is fat. Lots and lots of it. ._.
I heard they fried coke the year before.
I wonder how they did it…
FYI The award it won was for “Most Creative.” I think the peaches and cream won best tasting.
i think im going to hurl ………………………… who thinks this stuff up
i think all of you have problems im a big girl but i dont eat shit like that and im still fat so its not what u eat really it is the way you where made not all people choose to be fat!!!!!!!!!!! just remember that to all of you who judge gods the only one who judges.
Oh I agree with you here. I went to cooking school. I KNOW GOOD FOOD. It makes me sick what people could be eating, and what they are actually eating. Fast food, huge dinner buffets, and deep fried everything. Its what people want, and it makes me sick. Heart disease is on the rise and its such an easy thing to avoid. If we all took one small step to our health, (an apple a day!) our bodies would kindly thank us. Instead of oil fried this and that, maybe fairs could offer the items baked? With a side of carrot sticks, or grapes. Would look much more appealing as well. I know companys are trying to keep food costs down, but they would make more buisness with better food! I just dont understand how people eat themselves-literally to death!
ps…deep fried coke and pepsi is just a funnel cake flavored with the beverage….gross!
Sounds very unhealthy… This one is strictly for people who want to enjoy life & NOT for those who want to eat 5 portions of fruit/veg every day just on the off-chance that they can survive another 20 years after their body has entered the final stages of deterioration.
A previous comment stated “Seriously, can’t you see the difference between eating ICE CREAM and eating BUTTER? You can actually eat ice cream by itself”
Unless I’m very much mistaken, butter is salted milk & ice cream is sweetened [and flavored] milk – the main article does mention that the butter will be sweetened & flavored. Don’t let the salt fool you. Almost everything you eat would be inedible without salt. Even wholemeal bread tastes like sour milk without salt.
I’m a huge fan of fried foods that you normally wouldn’t fry.. One of my favorites is basicly battered fat, cooked in fat and then dipped in fat..
It’s chicken fried bacon with cream gravey, I can’t get enough of the stuff…
But even I wouldn’t even consider eating deep fried butter… Just sounds way too disgusting to me, who actually just eats butter on it’s own anyways?
In my country, deep-fried, yeast-fermented dough is the breakfast food of the typical primary and junior secondary-school child. We call it “puff-puff.” Six balls of these donuts, and I was set till lunch. I don’t know what we could have done without them. (Actually, I do- the alternative, called *AKARA* in Yoruba language, is made from mashed soaked cowpeas, similarly fried, which are somewhat higher in protein. The two can be eaten together, akara being savory, and puff-puff sweet..)
deep fried pepsi is just as bad asdeep fried butter here are the ingredients 11/4cup pepsi 3/4c of whole butter unsalted1/2 tsp salt11/2c flour and 6 eggs and you fry in 4 in of greese if you want just search it.
Jen D has a good point, deep fried butter might be a one time deal. However, Conan O’Brien had a guest on his show rescently who ate nothing but fried foods. Watching him fry a Twinkie was revolting.
Now I’m not a health fanatic, but I’m also not a festering blob of sludge that oozes down the mid-way. There should be a mutual balance of healthy and unhealthy foods.
Funnel cakes are a treat reserved only for rare occasions. That’s why we normally see them at the fair and nowhere else. I say let people have their fun and then they can go home and go on a 2 week detox if they are so inclined to do so.
Personally I don’t care for the fair. To crowded, noisy, hot and smelly. Those events need some serious body control. I’m also disgusted by the fact that so many people there decide to throw their garbage on the street instead of finding a garbage can. It’s so disrespectful.
fat, dipped in batter, and deep fried in itself (more fat)……no thanks, i can feel my chest tightning up just reading the description.
first, beyond the fact that its horribly unhealthy and just sounds, how is it even possible to deep fry butter??? That’s the part that I don’t understand. Wouldn’t it just melt as soon as i got anywhere near the hot oil? And yes, even if it is caked with batter wouldn’t the heat from the oil melt the butter and cause it to trickle out of the batter??
That’s nothing new! Expect deep-fried ANYTHING at the State Fair. Here in Cali they do deep fried Twinkies. Yummy!
Oh my Goodness. This is just so so wrong. What are we trying to do to our kids?!
Years ago we ran around to catch our meat and fat and consumed it to sustain us only, now we sit in our cars and eat more calories in one meal than they ate in a month.
I am pretty overwieght myself and even I can see that deep fried fat is crazy
Sounds gooood to me!! Deep Fried Mars Bars are awesome
How on earth can someone deep-fry Pepsi? Oh ya and mmm cheeseburgers.
Might as well make Deep-fried Lard. mmmmhmmm.
Well I make home-made french fries and tortilla chips. They’re really easy and I use olive oil with a certain amount of salt. I know what goes into my fried potato or tortilla, making it a lot more appetizing. As for my opinion on the butter, eewww!! That sounds revolting and utterly disgusting! I’d much rather go for the more famed “deep-fried twinkie”. I’m sure it would be much more delicious!
sorry you’re redo wasn’t all that good either.
That, is, disgusting.
Fried Ice Cream is nowhere near as gross as this.
I can only imagine what the people defending it look like….
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I saw the deep fried butter thing on the news. Also talked about other deep fried foods at the festival. The butter does sound disgusting for me and can NOT be good for you. I don’t really thing so many unhealthy things should be promoted, though it is up to the people to decide whether to eat them or not. Everything in moderation I think..though I do want to try a deep fried twinki!
At a city fair in South Carolina I saw “Deep-Fried Candy Bars” proudly for sale, and doing a good bit of business, too.
“Deep fried pepsi is frozen balls rolled in batter which will be deep fried and served with loads of powdered sugar.”
http://www.squidoo.com/deep-fried-pepsi for the recipe.
Not that I’m necessarily condoning deep-fried butter, but who hasn’t licked a little off the knife or their finger after buttering a roll or biscuit with honey butter or the like? It’s not *repulsive* to eat by itself, but without something breaking up the richness, I don’t see how someone could, and the fried version seems to take care of that problem.
As for “Oh, how fat the Americans are!” Food for thought, the deep-fried Mars bar originated in Scotland in the 1990’s. It spread to Australia and New Zealand before making an appearance in the US.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_Bar It’s not always us…
It sound a bit strange, are deep fried and battered the same thing?
If they are, i think it would be quite nice, after all, i eat battered mars bars… Mmmm (:
Yeah, it’s a State Fair thing. Each year the State Fair of Texas introduces a new fried food, so don’t count on that changing any time soon. They’ve done everything from Oreos to ice cream to Coca Cola. All sound crazy and all turned out to be delicious. I am usually able to put aside my apprehension for fried food and junk to test them and they are pretty good. But this year I think I’m gonna have to pass. I agree with you, why would anyone eat balls of deep-fried cholesterol? Would anyone in their right mind do that? Has the State Fair really run out of unhealthy ideas that they have to turn to the most unhealthy thing to fry? Hey, maybe it’ll be surprisingly good like all the other crazy things they’ve decided to fry, but I don’t think I have the stomach to try it.
At the Minnesota State Fair they have deep fried everything on a stick. New things every year. A couple years back there was deep fried pig fat (for real…probably a little bit of meat but they advertized it as “fat”) chocolate, and ice cream. So if you think cookie dough is bad (no, I didn’t read the article b/c I’m really sleep now) just take a trip to MN in August and bring your camera b/c you won’t believe what they have!!
Don’t knock deep fried butter unless you’ve tasted it. Personally, I liked last years winner better: Chicken fried bacon, yum!
I think that we are taking the whole deep frying thing a bit too far. I mean deep fried ice-cream was okay, but then we went to deep fried mars bars. This is going too far. Deep fried cookie dough, yeah it may taste nice, but then we go and complain on how obese the population is becoming. I wonder why? Money. It’s all about money. Same with smoking. We all know it kills, but we still do it. I don’t see the government trying to stop it. Why? Money. Alcohol isn’t very good for us either, and drink driving causes many deaths per year, but we still keep it. Don’t get me wrong….some people LOVE these things and “can’t live without them”, but it kills us. It’s all just money.
haha… this is nothing. Haven’y you heard they have deep fried soda syrup w/ what else but confectioners sugar on top.
It never amazes me how glutoneous some people are. Really? Don’t they see themselves in the mirror? Most if not all the people willing to eat this maneur are grossly overweight. How about eating some vegetables there tubby?
Way to go fatty, once your heart gives up we’ll just stick a pig’s heart in there. How apt, no?
I don’t eat anything deep-fried. So if you’re going to eat anything that is deep-fried, why not butter? So deep fried ice cream is 2000 calories but deep fried butter is 3000!!! As sickening as it is, there’s no surprise to it.
since you mentioned it theres a takeaway shop near by that sells deep fried butter and mind you its distgusting!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
seriously just disgusting!!
that is seriously the most discusting thing i’ve ever heard of, im kind of into counting calories and watching my weight& hearing that people actually eat that, is just shameful.
im truely discusted.
what is america coming to.
ew.
and this…is why America is obese. there is no getting around it, the majority of you are fat lards.
For the love of God people, no one’s telling you to try it. I’ll bet half of you will buy a funnel cake at a fair you attend once or twice a year. It’s not going to kill you, honest.
First off – it’s not just butter, it’s butter wrapped in dough. In case no one noticed, butter wrapped in (layers of) dough could also be the description of a croissant.
Secondly, this is a state fair – not a restaurant where people would eat this on a normal basis.
Third – don’t blame Americans for deep fried everything. I first heard about deep fried Twinkies while visiting Scotland, and later found out that the “delicacy” was first created in England.
And there are some of us who love deep fried cauliflower!
YUCK!!! That sounds HORRIBLE!!!
Made a mistake – the fried Twinkie was invented in the US, by a man from England. It was the fried Mars Bar that I heard about in Scotland, and was, in fact, first created in Scotland.
Okay, that’s a really big shock! Butter is already fattening enough, plus fried… Ewww. Fried ice cream is absoulutely delicious, though!
i like deep fried oreos too and i agree how do you deep fry pepsi? idk but it might be good i’d try the cookie dough
i never tried deep fried candy bars or deep fried ice cream, but i will have to now lol
deep fried butter…not so much
I can not believe the fuss. I am from Texas and proud of it. . I go to the State Fair every year, basically just to have a Fletcher’s Corn Dog.
It says deep fried BUTTER, not margarine as most of you probably eat. I may not try the butter, but I intend to try the fried peanut butter cup macaroon. It is the Texas State Fair. The BEST state fair.
It does not say that this is how we eat all year round. How many of you out there go to McDonald’s for a Big Mac 3 times a week that are making such a fuss at our novelties during fair time.
That’s pretty nasty: you’re essentially eating a ball of congealed fat, cooked in liquid fat. What could possibly be worse for you? Its all trans and saturated fat! I suppose next they’re going to have sugared lard shakes, and flavored buckets of Crisco…mmmmmm
Fairs: they aren’t exactly known for their delicious salads and carrot sticks. I mean, deep fried foods of all kinds have been popping up in fairs forever now. That’s how they make a lot of their money.
BUT… deep fried butter? That doesn’t even make any sense. Deep frying fat with more fat? No one eats just plain butter (well, not anyone normal that is) so why would anyone want to eat it deep fried? It is indeed gluttony, and the message it sends is… well… shameful in my opinion. Some other countries struggle with starvation, and here we Americans are, deep frying butter?
I know, I know… fairs only last a month, people don’t eat this all the time or make it at home, it’s only novelty food… but still… it’s no wonder this country is known for being… well… fat. =/
How about mayonaise popsicle’s?
never ssen them
as an adolecent a friend and I, who found mayonaise discusting dreampt up this concoction
I would like to point out that eating fatty foods does not make a person a glutton–unless they eat massive amounts of it. A glutton is a person who eats large amounts of food at one sitting and on a regular basis. IN OTHER WORDS–GLUTTONY IS OVEREATING. It’s the quantity of food consumed that makes someone a glutton, whether its broccoli or fried anything. This article is a knee-jerk reaction by someone who wants to sound politically correct
on health issues, because that, my dears, is the “New Cool”. Everyone knows that deep fried foods are bad for your health. Get over yourselves and your self-righteous attitudes–deep frying weird foods is just a way to get consumers to spend money on something that is a novelty. Next year they’ll probably be selling deep-fried earthworms….then PETA can have a turn at sounding off their outrage.
from what i read when i searched it, deep fried pepsi is a dough mixed with pepsi cola and pepsi syrup into it then deep fried. i have yet to try anything deep fried besides veggies and onion rings and fries. maybe one day i can try the deep fried cheesecake though. sounds yummy.
Wait……wha wha wha what??? This is crazy??? the brochure didn’t say Deep Fried Pepsi? This is bad.
Do they serve deep fried cat food? Its my favorite. I like deep fried milk too.
I guess none of you criticizing this eat much cake eh?
Sounds more like deep-fried butter cream frosting.
Most cakes from a bakery use butter cream frosting, and that’s just butter whipped with sugar.
Cakes themselves are a bastion of everything you shouldn’t eat regularly.
And really… you might be better off eating the bowl of alfredo sauce than the alfredo sauce combined with pasta depending on your school of nurtionism (ooooh carbs are evil… no wait, fat is evil… no wait, eating is the purest evil!).
Ok, I see how all this would be very unhealthy, but this is not something people eat everyday. It’s probably once or twice a year, and I don’t think anyone is advancing toward the fried butter. Well, I’m not anyways. I am a funnel cake fan, but I don’t eat them every day. When the Florida Folk Festival comes by, I’ll buy two within the four days it lasts, and I’ll wait till next year for more funnel cakes.
Some people act like it’s going to kill you. Grow up. It may kill you if you eat it every single day for the rest of your life. But once a year, don’t worry about it.
On a side note, how in the hell does “Fried Pepsi” work?
Yeah, if you really break it down, the concept becomes less shocking. It is butter, mixed with dough and sweetener, deep-fried. I don’t really see how it’s any different than pulling up to a Dunkin Donuts……….
I wanna know how they deep fry pepsi myself.
The worst that I have seen at a food oriented convention was the death log.
Aptly named as it has two pounds of sausage, Three packages of Bacon assorted spices and lard. Tomato slices, Onion and hot peppers are added just for the fun of it..
The sausage is pressed into a patty measuring nearly 12″ x 24 ” and lard and spices are placed atop it. Then it is folded into a smaller patty. It is then wrapped in the strips of bacon. They are wrapped in a criss cross pattern to keep everything inside of the loaf. When done it builds a cardio vascular dream come true brick weighing about three pounds. Shove it in an oven or on a grill until done.
You people are sick for “enjoying” this in moderation. I don’t care that you only have it once a year…its still nasty and a bad example to children. Then people wonder why were THE FATTEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD.
HUH? It’s offensive even by name alone!
Butter = oil.
Deep fry = use oil
Deep friend butter = deep fried oil.
THAT’S… using oil to fry oil! what the hell!
I avoid State Fair fried food and hang out at the Beer-On-A-Stick booth instead.
yeah that sounds sick, but deep fried cookie doe sounds goooooood! the scottish were the first to start frying things you can get a deep-fried pizza in glasgow and deep-fryed anything for that matter. probs why scotland and texas have HUGE weight problems lol. Saying that im a fatty
frid butter…..mmmm doesnt sound to bad if you eat it just once and never again. I think I’ll try it.It wont kill me on first attempt will it?
I want it now!!!
I don’t know what the BIG stink is all about. Actually the worst stuff we can put in our bodies are all the margarines that are made with hydroginated or partially hydroginated oils. The food industry did this to basically healthy vegetable oils. We now know that these Trans Fats do our bodies and hearts more harm than 100% real butter.
My dad lived to be 85 yrs old. We joked that he had some bread with his butter. We kept it in the refrigerator so he would slice off the 1 lb block and lay it on his bread. Mom was 88 when she passed.
Maybe we would be better off eating real food instead of all the manufactured stuff the food companies have been feeding us. All those power drinks are mostly sugar. Read your labels and make your choices.
actually it the work of a death panel
see http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=AkgJGqbKQ.ZdZgJ_KX3MwY3ty6IX;_ylv=3?qid=20090909211704AA2A60T
Rednecks will eat anything
Holy whoah… I can’t even think of anything to say about that. Just… whoah
There this one resturant that will fry anything that you want even if you bring it from home. I for one hate fried food but that just me.
I think, eventually we will be able to deep fry, liquids, then put some fat in them, and deep fry them again!
It isn’t something I would indulge in. I am not big on butter unless it is on toast. To each his own…..
I am glad you are not a health food nut because I have a problem with that article that is hard to admit. Butter and margerine gives me an instant and very long stomach. However, I know just a taste is stupid but why do they have that? I will wonder if it is at all good. Did it win for a comical reason as outlandish? I am afraid I would like to try just a taste to see why it won. I already know that is stupid thinking, but I get away with things because I take chol. vitamins. So I cheat but that was not my original motive. Truly, Susan D. S.
Deep-fried pepsi/coke – the soda is mixed into the batter and then deep-fried.
My weight is fine, my cholesterol is not too good.
BTW – deep fried oreos beat the deep fried twinkies hands down. I don’t think I’d try deed fried butter, but I am tempted by the chocolate covered bacon.
Just don’t tell my doctor.
Have you heard of this site? http://thisiswhyyourefat.com/ It fascinates, yet repulses. Personally, I was intrigued by the chocolate-covered bacon I recently saw on the food network.
Would people stop defending it? Obviously you’re fat@sses who don’t care about your health. It’s not a matter of it tasting good or not, it’s the fact that it is so horrible for you and that people (myself included) are dropping their jaws in awe of this gross, heart-attack on a stick. Why would anyone want to put this in their body? You don’t even feel gross after you eat a large french fry from McDonald’s? I think there needs to be regulations on these sorts of things. Because this country is so flippin FAT and obese and people can’t stop stuffing their face with food (disgusting, high fat and cholesterol foods, not to mention) we are spending billions and billions more dollars on healthcare and medication.
Come on people, start caring about your body! You only get one so why wouldn’t you want to make it the most healthy and strong body you can?
I think I would like to vomit now. Seriously.
I can handle the occasional french fry or fried ice cream, but butter? Might as well just inject the butter straight into your arteries.
O_O thats SO gross >_> juss by saying deep fried butter makes me SICK!
Cristen, thanks for commenting…you said most of what I was going to say. I am a “native Texan” and the State Fair is a great tradition here. Becoming the “fried food fair” has helped draw more people to the venue and create much needed revenue. The judges pick things that taste good AND will generate controversy and interest. Thank you Yahoo! Answers for further generating interest. By the way, I AM a HEALTH, except for my once a month cheat day and Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Fair Day. There are many people here who ONLY eat things like that come “fair time”. So I will be thinking of you, Mr. Hamster, lovingly, when I get my deep fried butter, funnel cake, corny dog, and huge Turkey leg. Thanks!
well… any deep fried food is awful and isn’t in my diet. but i never thought i’d eat eel, and i did that, so i certainly would make a diet out of deep fried butter – but it sounds intriguing and you only live once. i think i might take a bite if given the opportunity, but i certainly wouldn’t go hunting for it either!
think for yourselves
im guessing ur american, the only country that refuses to eat anything that isnt deep fried, and they call chips french fries, no no no! yes, chips are sometimes fried, but they were not in vented iin france, i think, they were invented in Great Britain, but definately not france!!
just had an idea, a deep fried snickers pie, coverd in chocolate, then coverd in caremel, coverd, in chocolatre, deep fried, and coverd in icing.
i call my creation, the heart blocker.
I am assuming since it is surrounded by dough, that it is a butter filled doughnut.
Texas is a state where chicken fried steak, fried chicken, fried everything, rules (I grew up in Texas, so I know). Thankfully, my parents made sure we did not eat fired food more than once a week.
This does beg the question- where does personal responsibility start?
Al those obese people did not get that way by eating something like this only once a year.
As to “deep fried butter” I don’t think it could be classified as a new fad. I believe some people come up with ideas of “what if” or “what would” and someone came up with the idea of deep fried butter for the State Fair visitors to try if they wished — not the invention or creation of something for the super markets to sell. So, let’s not get our drawers all in a wad over something rather funny. Wonder how many other things will prove to be so out of sync? Just enjoy the fair!!!!
ohmygod. i want to try it.
Do thinner people have higher cholesterol levels?
Gross! Fried butter!
Just say no
EW that is sooo grose butter .. FRIED?!?!? i was about to puke when i saw that im glad i dont live in a place were they sell that kind of stuff!!!!
Ok, yes there is deep fried candy bars and deep fried ice cream, but that’s not as bed as deep fried butter. If you think about it , it’s like eating plain old grease, with flavor.
I mean its butter, you cook with it and add IT for flavoring. I know , I know , don’t be a hypocrite, Heather. Yes I used to eat butter when I was a kid, but look I’m not a kid any more.
I love fried foods, but butter not for me. I’ll eat it on foods but not as a food, to me it would be gross. That’s my opinion on it, and opinion’s are like Butts everyone’s got one!
dear “Cristen” you really should just not get so offended so easily. Who cares if you live in TX with all the deep fried foods and it is part of the experience. The POINT IS…
Deep fried butter should no way be considered as food concoction. It is just so unhealthy. And if they are this desperate to make money.. they need to rethink their ideas because this one is just idiotic. Fried butter just sounds gross… when I go to a carnival… I don’t envision myself sinking my teeth into some crunchy, then oozy runny warm butter bar. Its just disgusting! And the writer of this has a good point. America’s food source is mainly fast-food in a lot of cases and the carnival putting out crap like this isn’t helping our problem one bit. And if they are going to put some new concoction out, they should should atleast make it with atleast some kind of REAL food. not something that can be used as a condiment
This is one of those things that no one is gonna understand unless they live in texas…It’s a tradition! They do something new every year…No one is gonna say this is something healthy to put into your body…stop bashing something just because it doesn’t fit into the idea of how YOU think everyone should live…
Look, We cannot force people to eat only healthy foods. It is up to the individual to make good choices. I must admit that I would love to taste his deep fried cookie dough but would try my best to prevent this deep fried addiction.
Only San Francisco’s mayor who is a loud mouth,”I wnat it my way little dictator” would attempt to force people into his beliefs as he has done before. He wants to put an extra tax on soft drinks and sugar sweets in order to curb the consumption. This guy needs to go to a communist country where he will feel at home as the dictator. In America we are allowed to make choices so It is up to you if lots or oil and fats are included in your menu. Ya just need to accept freedom.
Much of what Texans do I find disturbing. I live here, but it’s still disturbing. I’ve never seen a people indulge in such unhealthy… everything… in my life from foods to states of mind. To further amuse you about the butter, you should take a look at Letterman’s Top Ten List on the subject.
http://www.cbs.com/late_night/late_show/video/?pid=jB9jQIxrjoYO_WAf2lcAPiYMjtJB5mj0&vs
Deep-fried butter!? are u kidding me??
butter doesn’t even taste like anything. it’s not food. what is wrong with these people? and to have it top the best carnival foods list?
….just no.
they need to stop frying things. just stop.
yummmmm sounds good to me!! i want to try it…:)
Before you know it they’ll be making deep fried lard…batter covered in batter and dipped in peanut oil. Yum!
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i totally agree with you and i agree with most of the comments moderation is the key yet noone should even eat those things on the fisrt place the only reason many people eat so much junk food its because “oh it tastes so good” but when u eat junk food is so bad to your bpdy that it makes you weak… another thing if u took as good care of ur body from the inside as u do from the outside u would realize what really is healthy… for example dont brush your teeth for a month and see how it is… isnt it discusting?… well thats what u do to your body when u ingest meat products and by products (butter included) but since you cant see how bad ur inside is thats why u keep on eating the way u do… frying things over all is not so great baked would be better but if u must and u really are addicted to these things well try something healthier… yes chicken would be alright but u can never go wrong with fruits and vegitables!!!!
Dude! Look at the picture! “Deep-fried Pepsi” ??
That’s badass!!! xD
I am from Texas, and I saw the news episode that was talking about the new invention for the State Fair of Texas…deep fried butter. I was born and raised here, and jesus…I CAN NOT IMAGINE EATING DEEP FRIED BUTTER. I’m sure the majority of the world thinks Texans are fatass cowboys…but that’s not the case. There are a lot of cowboys in the deep south and east/west…but fried butter is not a common thing where I live. It truly disgusts me…especially since I live in the Dallas area. It’s stuff like that …that makes Texas looks BAD!
Cool, a deep fried heat-attack!
ohh who cares, its not like you have it everyday!? no need to make a whole article about it. its probably a once a month kinda thing its not everyday and a little cookie dough, fried wouldnt do much harm as long as it isnt everyday or week i think your fine. theres fried ice cream? thats delicious and i barely have that.
How is this really any different from a cream-filled donut? or those fried wontons you get at Chinese buffets–they are filled with cream cheese which really isn’t that much different from butter. Or even fries topped with cheese? It’s just another variation on the fried + dairy theme. They’ve got you talking!
Um….. Did anybody else notice the sign in the pic said Deep Fried Pepsi? How….. you know what, I don’t wanna know.
Deep fried butter, lol. I just can’t stop laughing. Some of these comments are totally hilarious, I have been cracking up for about 15 minutes now.
I will admit that the thought makes my stomach turn and I LOVE butter…but those who say this is the fair and it’s okay to eat unhealthy things when at the fair is right. I mean, it’s the fair. Unless the fair comes to your town once a week and you go every week, you should be okay.
*shivers* Just the thought of eating a chunk of whipped butter that has been thrown in a fryer makes my stomach flip.
I would not eat a tablespoon of landolakes no matter how depressed I was. It is NOT the same thing as ice cream.
I’m sure it taste good but I would have to be forced to try it.
I want deep fried lard!
I find some of thse fried foods ok , maybe 1 time a year.
fyi some places use the same oil to friy bacon , then use the same oil for french fries. i do not eat french fries when i go out
to eat, from that,,
be happy,
spunky
Am I the only one who saw the “Deep fried PEPSI” sign?
I wonder how they pull that off.
lol i like this article…deep fried butter? too much lol even just to try once.
i HAVE however tried deep fried twinkies.
they were good but not great, and since its terrible for you, i dnt plan on eating in again
Yea.. and??
I’ve heard of folks deep fryin butter
I think it’s hilarious on all these comments how it’s all these Texan people defending, “What you talkin’ bout? America is the land a’ the free, we ain’t o-bese!” Lol. But really I have nothing against Texans. I just have something against people who will stand up for anything because it’s “tradition” even if it’s totally, totally wrong. i.e: fried butter. Yech.
Honestly, is the purpose of deep-fried butter the same as intentional morphine overdose? Organized suicide?! Because, I have a feeling that you could eat very few of these butter fatties and have a coronary embolism or a blocked artery or something.
Oh lighten up! Fried butter is not a staple of the American (or even Texan) diet. It’s a singularly festive novelty at a singular festival. It’s all part of having fun. And really, how is it any worse than good ol’ cotton candy?
its all downhill from here…
Watch out next, it is Deep-Fried Milk!
umm are you people nuts thats horrible its absolutley disssssgusting
Okay, I understand the idea of eating ridiculous junk food. Everyone does it and it’s not like it’s all you eat all day every day, but this is just gross and wrong in so many ways.
…that’s fairly disgusting, yes. Still, you have to admit that people who provide food at fairs and other public venues are becoming either increasingly creative or increasingly desperate. I was at the L.A. Fair the other day, and someone was offering chocolate-dipped cotton candy, chocolate-dipped runts (which seems sort of pointless to me, but whatever), and the clincher, chocolate-dipped BACON. That’s…not right. I would almost consider that a sin against God and nature.
The lesson in all this? Don’t eat carnival food if you don’t want to hear your arteries screaming in pain.
THAT IS AWEFUL! I eat a lot of things, but I would never eat ANYTHING like that!
Let’s see…
Fried butter – Fried Ice cream
I’d take the ice cream because I know I’m least likely to not die from eating it. But I wonder who came up with fried butter. And why…
Try chocolate covered bacon! LOL
deep fried butter? it seems like these people are trying to get fat
Okay, theres tons of comments like ‘If you try it once nothings gonna happen’ nd stuff like that (I even read one that was ‘SHUT UP ITS GOOD! DONT JUDGE TILL YOU TRY IT’).
I get your point, its not going to affect you if you try it once but we sure wouldnt be having all these obesity problems in America if these types of foods were never introduced.
For example, kids dont know what a balanced diet means. So if they find something like this thats so ‘delicious’ and has like a gazillion calories in it and clogs arteries they wont care about the bad part. They will want it and will get it.
A month of deep fried stuff (even if it is only a month) can really affect your health…
Who cares if they make deep fried butter? Su-re I’d never (EVER) try it but It’s other (STUPID) people’s choices Sooooooo you can’t really change it, but one thing I can (and hopefully everyone else does) agree on is america has a huge (Pun intended) obesity Problem; Some countries are starving right now, when some fat 30-year old man in America could live for a year with just water, a potato chip, and his own body fat. =P
Love the Texas crowd coming on and declaring their pride in being the fattest, dumbest, most illiterate, state. We all know you love everything Texas, in fact it’s so good down there I wish you’d go back.
It’s TEXAS, they fry and eat everything there to huge excess. Ever been there? Go to Houston, people are HUGE and HUGELY unhealthy – now we get to pay for their health insurance too. Yippee…
How about you guys who don’t like it ignore it and let people who like it enjoy it instead of telling us how deprived and immoral it is. What if you just respected other people’s tastes and let people make their own decisions without being chastised?
I didn’t know that all this types of food could be deep fried.. thats really gross in my opion.
turns my stomach, I dont eat fried anything let alone deep fried.
if ppl made a steady diet of this i can see how it would make you fat for crying out loud.
i just realized what this is about. The people complaining are too intolerant of other’s tastes to bear being associated with them. Its about one group of people saying “those people reflect badly upon me,and they shouldn’t be allowed to do that”.
Its the same thing as those jerks who get upset when their neighbors paint their houses a color they don’t like.Its just people being judgemental.
This disgusts me.It disgusts me because of how full of themselves people are.
ha this fair is like 20 minutes away from my house!
Okay, there are a lot of extreme opinions in this article. However, I don’t think the point is, “oh hey look how nasty Americans are.” I think the point here is that our culture is evolving to condone such things. Now, in moderation, nothing will kill you. But, these thins eventually evolve and become part of everyday life. One of the previous commentors said that there was a store selling deep-fried pepsi and making a good chunck of money from the business. Now, I am all for trying new things, and I am all for the occasional day of splurging, but I think that a lot of choices made today ARE unhealthy. I am a highschool student, and no joke, the only things you can buy for lunch at my school are pizza, nachos, french fries, cookies, or a rather unappetizing, wilted salad. I wish that there was more of a happy medium between the two. Maybe instead of only having a what-is-the-best-deep-fried-food, they could also have a what-is-the-best-healthy-food as well.
Yum. All it needs is bacon.
Double Yumm!
Actually, Deep-Fried Peaches and Cream won the competition. But Deep Fried Butter was one of the contenders. The first one just sounds like a glorified fried pie. I would imagine the butter thing would be no more than a big fried ball of batter, buttery, I’ll admit, but just fried batter nonetheless. But……B U T T E R !?!?!?
Every year somebody tries to come up with something new to deep fry. I guess this means they must be running out of stuff.
Hmmm… well, I think it sounds disgusting, although I am one to slather on butter when making, say, garlic bread, or even when enjoying waffles.
I guess deep-fried butter isn’t that much of a stretch from people, like myself, who already abuse the purpose of butter… but ugh. I can’t imagine eating straight up butter. Is it all liquid in the middle after you bite through the “special crust”? Or does the butter somehow evaporate and get crusty?
Either way, it seems like a ridiculously and unnecessarily gross food choice. It has nothing to do with obesity… although obviously the people who are getting so defensive have been affected by this and feel the need to defend themselves by getting angry at a blog… but just the concept itself sounds sickening. Of all the things to fry… well, I guess they ran out of creative ideas.
Deep fried butter. DEEP FRIED BUTTER. Are you kidding me? That is just disgusting.
I agree with the writer. Even though people will not go home and make their own–all that fat, just biting through pure fat and unhealthy oils, is going to clog up your arteries–or contribute SIGNIFICANTLY to that.
“Whipping the butter and adding sugars”…SICK, just have whipped cream on a sundae!:) lol
And I think fried ice cream is completely okay. I’ve had it once, and it’s not a 30 gram stick of fat surrounded by fat. It just has sugar in it.
As long as you don’t eat it more than once or twice a year, what is the problem?? Pure butter is much better for you than margarine or some of the other fake spreads out there. Moderation is the key.
After all, wasn’t it deep fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches that killed Elvis?
Enjoy life once in a while.
Yes, this is indeed rediculous. As a culture we have forgotten the total porpuse of food -to sustain us and help our bodies function. It seems everyone has lost sight of that, even myself sometimes. We put too much emphasis on what food can be the most extreme, come in the largest portion or who can finish 60 hot dogs in 5 minutes. Its quite sickening actually, that someone would come up with this. Can it even be considered food?, I’m sure there is not positive nutritional value in extreme foods like this.
It’s no wonder why there are many FAT people in America.
I’m immune to calories.
Now, hand over that fried butter. It sounds delicious.
Deep fried peanut butter? T-T
That’s sick in so many ways! =(
I love peanut butter…
Yummmm
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did homer simpson come up with this one? mmmm fried butter…
That is wrong in so many ways. Deep fried butter? Butter isn’t good for you in the first place! Why deep fri it?!!!!??!
That sounds nasty!!!!!! Butter is already only fat they just made it fatter. Oh my gosh! Who would eat that? and deep fried ice cream? isn’t ice cold?
What I find worse is that we’ve started viewing food in terms of morality, as many of these comments show. It’s not “wrong” or “unconscionable” to make deep-fried butter, it’s just SILLY.
Having said that, I wouldn’t try it – it sounds not merely unhealthy, but disgusting as well. But it’s NOT typical, it’s NOT something Americans eat every day – if it was, it’s wouldn’t be notable enough for this post to have been made in the first place.
This article really annoyed me. As others have pointed out, I don’t think anyone is suggesting to add this to the everyday diet.
It’s a food novelty and every year our state fair (WI) has a ton of ridiculous, artery-clogging wads of congealed fat that barely qualify as food. This year, for example, the must-have thing was chocolate covered bacon on a stick.
Yes, tons of people go to try this stuff (and, in case you’re wondering putting together the two most awesome foods -bacon and chocolate- together does not have the doubly awesome results you might expect, in fact, one might say it was TERRIBLE) just to say they’ve tried it. But I would think it would be truly doubtful to find someone who’s going to take these crazy food ideas and try to make them at home on a regular basis.
And, regardless of that fact, since when is it the responsibility of the food vendor to police what people eat? If someone wants to stuff their face with ten pounds of butter, I say go for it. I don’t think some socialist food nazi should be telling people what they can and can’t eat. Whether or not you want to eat fried lard balls or plain tofu on a stick, I think it’s up to you what you put into your body, and ultimately your responsibility when the health problems set in later in life.
I grew up in the land of cheese and beer and we have a huge obesity problem here as well as the rest of the country, no doubt, but food is a highly personal and individualized choice. If someone wants to let loose and have some disgusting, greasy concoction on a rare occasion, feel-good social commentators should just keep to themselves and refrain from making morality judgments on people.
I would assume that given the massive scale of the obesity problem in the US, the contribution of “fair food” is so minute it doesn’t even register on the radar. If you want to go after the real cause of the issue, start with the commercial food industry and sedentary lifestyles we have so easily come to adapt in this country and then, maybe you have a chance of making a dent in this wide-spread issue.
Fried Twinkies are my favorite! I might even try the fried butter this year. The state fair only comes around once a year and these are the kinds of treats we look forward to. It’s not like we eat these fried goodies all year long.
For those of you that think fried ice cream is healthier, they both start with the same ingrediant (cream) but sugar is added to the ice cream!
ok what is it with frying everything? isn’t anything good just the way it is??
DEEP FRIED BUTTER????!!!!!!! *o* OMG!!!
Yuck! Talk about dying of heart attacks!
Butter x FAT!! x FAT!! x FAT!! + Deep fried junk = You dead at the age of 25!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
EEEEEWWWW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i love french fries, but seriously that’s enough junk for me!
LOL ^ he he he ^
but seriously! that stuff could kill you!! x _ x
You can’t deep fry in Olive oil. It raises the temp of the oil too high and THAT becomes more toxic than the deep fried crap.
Oh my gosh! LOL! I am from the DFW area and saw this on the news and almost puked. Not to mention I heard it at 6 AM. That makes me so nauseous. I love the state fair’s fatty foods, yummo. I do endulge once a year with funnel cakes, and so on, but FRIED BUTTER? WTF?!
wow as a texan this aint news! Every year we deep fry weird things! welcome to the great state of texas! not only is everything better in texas but so are its people. I find this article pretty funny. You should go to the fair next year;every year is a spectacle. Gosh I love this state!
The Big E (Eastern States Exposition) held in Springfield, MA every fall has been selling something called the ‘Crazy Burger’… It is like any regular cheese burger, except it has bacon on it and… wait, wait… heres the kicker! A Sugar Glazed Donut as the Bun!!!…
Imagine your typical fast food bacon burger with DONUTS as the buns!!! talk about an instant heart attack!
If you would like more information than I can provide, then search for ‘crazy burger’ and the Big E, held in Springfield, MA for one week at the end of september, every single year.
I cant remember the details of the vendor selling this quote/unquote “burger”, but Im sure a quick search will bring up more than enough results!
ugh.. how gross can it be.
fried bananas
I wouldn’t even try it. I would be scared I’d drop dead the moment I swallowed it, no lol.
No matter what ANYONE says there is no justification for deep fried BUTTER! Whether youre eating it once a year or once a week. Disgusting
These are snack foods. You’re just like that guy who ate McDonalds 3 times a day for 6 months and filmed a documentary about it. Who are you trying to convince and what are you trying to prove?
Last time I checked, in America people have the right to eat whatever they like; fried Oreos, caviar, steak, celery sticks….
People of sound mind and body don’t consume these fried foods 3 times a day. If they bother you so much, don’t look at them…..
BUTTER? Much different than icecream. That much oil makes my stomach flip flop..
Hey now. All these comments are dissing Texas. The fried butter idea is garbage. Clearly someone has run out of ideas. But don’t be rude about a state you don’t know anything about. It’s a beautiful place with many kind, smart people.
Thats disgusting why do people deep fry fatty things? And just the thought of eating pure butter and then deep fried pure butter makes me feel sick ewww! haha just my htoughts on a disgusting food…hardly even a food ew :O
I think it’s funny that people on here seem to think that they’re literally throwing a stick of butter in a fryer. Don’t you guys realize that a stick of butter in a fryer would just melt?
Instead, it’s a buttery dough that they’re putting in the fryer. It’s the same as a funnel cake, but much more buttery. Same with deep fried Pepsi – deep fried pepsi is literally the same as a funnel cake recipe, but the liquid is replaced by Pepsi (or Coke, or similar).
It just sounds like a novelty, because they called it by something extreme – really, if you actually read the entire article instead of just the title, you’ll see it’s just a fried dough.
SIDENOTE: Forbes lists America as #9 most overweight country in the world. It’s not exactly something to write home about, but we aren’t the fattest nation.
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/07/worlds-fattest-countries-forbeslife-cx_ls_0208worldfat.html
they have just reached the end of the road and they’re just trying to find something else to fry. its just a TOTAL disgrace
You think THAT is bad for you check out the normal unhealthy yum, fired SUGAR (butterscotch and caramel)
ok, i like butter. on my toast in the morning, yeah. but to grab a big blob of it, dip it in batter and chuck it in the deep fryer is just plain disgusting. im not a big health nut either, but deep fried butter just sounds eww.
Wait . . . Hold on I got to run this through again.
We take butter, mix a bunch of other useless stuff with it and deep fry it?
Here’s where I’m confused: Can’t butter – in a sense – be used to deep fry food???
So they’re basically ordering deep fried-deep fryer?
Does anyone else see a problem with this?
Oh well. Everyone eats something that makes others scratch their heads and wonder.
It doesn’t appeal to me, but if people want to eat that stuff, that’s their business.
People are too quick to pass judgment and impose their beliefs on others. Who is anyone to say what’s nasty or not?
every one is saying stuff abou the deep fried icecream. i think the chinese invented that and no 1 questions the chinese. No one.
No brainer that that is in Amercia???
Personally, Almost anything deep fried is disgusting. Whats the point of smothering something already atery clogging in extra fat?
And deep fried ice cream and pancakes? What is the point? So far in my life, the worst thing I have some across is a deep fried moro bar, but that picture is something else.
Just think to yourself when you eat that stuff:
‘mmmmm cellulite!’
OKay deep fried butter just sounds nasty. But in the picture it says “deep fried cookie dough” now that would be something worth trying lol!
I just cant imagine what deep fried butter would taste like! I think it would make me puke.
I know eating fried butter sounds bad but do you call putting it on your morning toast or tomato sandwich?
Here is something else most people do not knowabout butter it has the following benefits.
1. Butter is rich in the most easily absorbable form of Vitamin A necessary for thyroid and adrenal health.
2. Contains lauric acid, important in treating fungal infections and candida.
3. Contains lecithin, essential for cholesterol metabolism.
4. Contains anti-oxidants that protect against free radical damage.
5. Has anti-oxidants that protect against weakening arteries.
6. Is a great source of Vitamins E and K.
7. Is a very rich source of the vital mineral selenium.
8. Saturated fats in butter have strong anti-tumor and anti-cancer properties.
9. Butter contains conjugated linoleic acid, which is a potent anti-cancer agent, muscle builder, and immunity booster
10. Vitamin D found in butter is essential to absorption of calcium.
11. Protects against tooth decay.
12. Is your only source of an anti-stiffness factor, which protects against calcification of the joints.
13. Anti-stiffness factor in butter also prevents hardening of the arteries, cataracts, and calcification of the pineal gland.
14. Is a source of Activator X, which helps your body absorb minerals.
15. Is a source of iodine in highly absorbable form.
16. May promote fertility in women.9
17. Is a source of quick energy, and is not stored in our bodies adipose tissue.
18. Cholesterol found in butterfat is essential to children’s brain and nervous system development.
19. Contains Arachidonic Acid (AA) which plays a role in brain function and is a vital component of cell membranes.
20. Protects against gastrointestinal infections in the very young or the elderly.
Also as a nation we have cut our butter consumption from 18 pounds per. person per year to 4 pounds per. year so the current weight gain cannot be from butter.
ok i read alot of the comments on here and i just have to say to all the people that think if you eat butter and fried food you are going to die tomorrow.
you have to remember what we used to eat years ago.
my grandpa used to have bacon eggs toast and coffee and toast with you guessed it REAL BUTTER on it every morning and lived to be 83 years old before he died of cancer! the difference between us and the older generation is EXCERCISE!!!!!! we bitch about all the saturated fat and additives in food well if you get off your butt and work instead of playing video games and watching tv shows about how to cook healthy you would find out that life will look alot brighter for your future. and yes you can eat stuff that tastes good if you work it off
so in closing GET OFF THE COUCH AND OUT FROM IN FRONT OF THE COMPUTER AND SWEAT ALITTLE.
Now deep fried butter, whats next, deep fried oil? Ok, lol that’s impossible.
Deep fried butter? Um, weird. I thought you fried things IN butter. Well, I’m a health nut and a vegan, so I’m never trying that.
jeeze, someone call the lawyers and sue…some of the reactions to this are completely stupid. “i almost threw up” “you will die”. come on people, its not like anyone is having this every day, its a once a year thing, maybe a once in a lifetime for most just to try it and see what it tastes like. they arent clubbing baby seals and frying them up here. get over it. i kinda want a deepfried cheesecake now though thanks to someones post
love the post on “nobody should eat butter”, that kinda made me giggle. thank goodness i dont have thanksgiving with any of you nuts cause it would be ruined with a tofu glop im sure.
At our fair this year, they had deep fried pickles…. and a sign that said: “We will deep fry ANYTHING!” And they meant it, all sorts of candy bars, sponge cake etc.
Nice composition.
All those years in college, finally paying off!
This year’s Deep Fried debut was Deep Fried Bacon…yep, bacon…at the Wisconsin State Fair. I get nauseous everytime I even THINK about it!
i really dont see the difference between fried butter (which i’ve never had) and fried cheese (mozzarella sticks anyone??)
Ok….who just picks up a stick of butter…looks at it and says….gee, this would be great rolled in dough and deep fried!? butter is not a snack or a main course people! its a dang condiment or additive!
whoever though of this disgusting idea is a complete moron to say the very least. they should be forcefed this puke-worthy treat daily so they can clog their own arteries. and people, please dont make a stupid decision and try this crap…it does not make sense! jut my humble , humble o-pin-i-on!!!
It’s state fair food, and the state fair comes once a year. It may last a month in Texas, but most states have state fairs that last a week or two. So what if people try unusual novelty food once or twice in that time? They won’t see it again for another year. People are way too uptight about this. Obesity comes from a lifestyle choice made up of bad decisions every day, not from an occassional unhealthy treat.
I wish they would sell that at the Big E instead of the vegetarian garbage that nobody eats.
If we could only deep fry exercise, everybody would want some.
well when i first saw this headline in answers I thought must have a look to see ,opened up the link & saw a photo that reads “DEEP FRIED PEPSI” wow thats an eye catcher right there .
cardiac arrest, anyone?
I agree with the whole Deep Fried butter thing. Butter was meant to be a topping/seasoning in most situations, and never a snack by itself.
I also wanted to tell you that you wrote your article very well. So well in fact that I wanted to make a point by saying so!
deep fried ANYTHING makes me gag, but if i ever ate this, i’d throw up for years to come.
bleck!! that is so nasty!!!!!
That is nasty and I’m suprised anyone is saying different. Somebody actually said its no different than fried icecream. There’s a big difference between icecream and butter.
Wow, they’ve really ran out of ideas. But who really cares? People are only going to actually eat it that one time they go to the fair a year.
as a Texan – it’s a drag being poked fun over deep fried butter.
Who cares? Sounds good to me & I’m not fat or even close Not something that I would eat very often, but I would definately be willing to try it. & whats so grotesque about it? you know the best hot wing sauce I’ve ever had? butter & hot sauce. louisiana hot sauce, texas pete (my favorite), or pretty much any type of hot sauce that isnt already wing sauce. its delicious, just not something you should eat very often. Saying that that is nasty is lke saying that ever eating mcdonalds is nasty. I mean if you eat mcdonalds all the time you’re most likely going to get fat/have health problems but it isnt bad for you every once in a while. That guy who ate mcdonalds for a month and almost died from it was some kind of sick idiot for even attempting that kind of thing. who wants mcdonalds every day? I eat it maybe every half a year and it still isnt that great. You want some good stuff that’ll fry your insides, go to taco bell. mmmmmm crunch wrap supreme
Reading and thinking about this makes me feel fat on so many wrong levels…
Ugh….I was eating Subway, and i just lost my appetite, probably wasn’t a good idea to read this while eating
I couldn’t help but notice the sign that says deep fried PEPSI. That’s beyond my imagination. How does one deep fry PEPSI. Is it the can, the bottle? Lol. Someone please explain these steps.
Hahaha I live in Scotland and they deep fry worse than that here! Some of It’s actually quite tasty in a deeply unhealthy way, not too bad if you eat healthily the rest of the time anyway.
Wow…That just sounds SO gross…Whats next? Deep Fried Lard? Im sure they could find a way to fry it. Hell they found a way to fry ice cream.
This is gonna go on the list of things i will never eat for fear of having an instant heart attack. Lol.
deep fried PEPSI.?
how is that possible.
Yeah , sad but true its insane but it makes money and some people “happy” . Ive read our tongue likes fatty things.
Ive never seen the fried icecream + cornflakes thing and I am mexican … I think this will be a kind of Tempura thing.
I am more scared from the advertisement “deep fried peanut butter” and ..DEEP FRIED PEPSI ???
Is it safe to assume we can estimate the health and body weight of people based on thier replies to this article?
Personally I think it sound disgusting, but I think everyone should eat what they want to eat (in moderation) and be happy!
Amazing – you’d never consider denigrating the customs of another race, and yet you decide that the traditions of the south are ok to knock?
It’s a FAIR, not a lifestyle. It’s once a year, not daily. It’s for fun, not a recommendation for your daily diet.
And people wonder why southerners hate outsiders?
that is gross what the hell that is just wrong for everything your health.
Ya know, I’ve always thought that deep fryers are kind of magical. No matter what you put in it; healthy or not; it will become even MORE unhealthy than humanely possible. Pretty impressive, huh? XD
But, on the issue of the article…my God, that sounds nasty.
i think that you are looking at the deep fried butter completely out of context. being from texas, i probably understand the state fair of texas a little better than you. they have a contest each year and people are just trying to come up with weird things to fry to get attention and to be creative. it doesnt mean that it’s the tastiest thing on the planet or the healthiest, obviously. and honestly, people will probably only try the fried butter to say they did it – and i can almost promise you most people wont go back for seconds. also, i think anyone who is judging the food at the state fair for it’s health is a completely arrogant idiot.
In Britain, some fish and chip shops sell deep-fried chocolate bars. The first was in Scotland, and was a deep-fried mars bar. Some will let you bring in your own and they will deep fry it for you!
I dont see the big deal. Its one of those wacky good fair foods like fried twinkies and fried candy bars. This is AMERICA! no one forces you to eat it. Im sure it is pretty good!
How stupid are you? If you fry butter with a bread exterior what you get is bread that’s already buttered inside. “Bread & Butter” pretty outragious stuff…Also, it is the State Fair, it’s food for fun, not a life style. Once a year, live a little for cry’n out loud. bla bla bla, just have a little fun now and then.
That is TRULY disturbing! No wonder the obesity rate in this country is sky high! The health crisis in this country will never be resolved as long as such unhealthy garbage is promoted and consumed.
I’m from the UK, lot’s of people think that america = obese people, and I’m not surprised!! Deep fried butter?? BUTTER??? Butter is already full of fat, so why don’t we add a ‘lil bit of sugar in it and then deep fry it? What a good idea!!! That is truly grotesque!! But, deep fried ice-cream is a completely different topic…..;)
Why does it say 11:28 am on there??? It’s 8:30 in the evening at the moment….
ya… theres also fried coke… truthfully theres fried anything down south. sad, yes. american, yes.
That’s disgusting, but not unheard of.
You should see the recipe for “Paula Deen’s Fried Butter Balls”, making America fat, one butter ball at a time.
I dont think the article said where this person is from, but I am assuming they arent from Texas or they’d understand the greatness that is The Texas State Fair. Part of that greatness is the most absurd fried foods. I mean last year was fried bacon, seriously they arent even attempting to appeal to your healthy side, thats the point. Thats why every year us Texans anxiously await the great Texas State Fair.
My body is my property, and nobody has a right to say anything about what I eat. If a woman has a constitutional right to murder her unborn baby, then I have the constitutional right to eat poison, or anything that you consider gross or unhealthy, and nobody has a right to invade my privacy and tell me what is good for me. What is good for you might not be good for me, and vice-versa. We all individuals, so it is impossible for you to know what is good for me since we are all different and supposed to be different.
And why to left-wingers and Californians think they have a right to tell me what to do with my body? If I want to eat deep-fried feces, and drink 100 softdrinks a day, that is my business, and mine alone.
One of the deep-fried foods advertised in the picture is deep-fried Pepsi. How is that possible? This world has gone mad!!
This is “old” news. I heard it already like last month.
Anyway, I think it’s completely gross.
I wouldn’t ever try it and I wouldn’t recommend anyone I know trying it either.
My mom thinks it sounds kinda inviting. I think she’s gross.
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The issue for me isn’t the effect it will actually have on people at the State Fair, its about the message it sends. I’m from one of the northern countries in Europe, where there is a lot of pressure not to be overweight. For us to hear about this kind of thing is quite shocking, and reinforces one of the most destructive and universal beliefs about Americans. I happen to know a lot of healthy, intelligent, really great American people, and to have a food culture that reflects this badly upon them is very sad. It doesn’t matter if it’s only one time, but at a public event, the government should be sending the message that, “no, we do not support the 2nd highest death cause in the country!” not, “yes, please eat more, get fatter, and die sooner.” Deep-fried butter probably wouldn’t do anything to you in the large scheme of things, but it’s accepting foods like this as a part of American life which causes the real harm.
Comment posted on September 23rd, 2009 at 6:52 pm by Elo”
Great post, Elo.
So its basically a scone.. Right? I mean a scone is a batter mixture fried and with whipped honey butter on it… Am I wrong????
At our county fair, we have deep fried vegetables and deep fried twinkies… Deep fried pepsi, well, I’d like a picture of that!
THAT SOUNDS DELICIOUS
Deep-fried butter? Yuck! Everything at the Texas fair seems to be deep-fried! I’ve heard worse, though, like deep-fried Coca-Cola. How do you deep-fry Coke?!
Deep-fried Pepsi is batter made with Pepsi instead of water. Little balls of the batter are then deep-fried. You can think of them as donut holes that have a Pepsi flavor.
You are what you eat?
Paula Deen fries butter all the time on her show. Guess Texans have iron arteries.
i see alot of people here thinkin its just a “texas thang” and it ain’t, its a southern thang! down here in south carolina we deep fry everything! chicken, okra, pickles, maters, snickers(and any other candy bar), twinkies, wings, chips,mashed potatoes, cheese, and even yeast rolls! and fried butter is actually good, but these are not stuff that we consume to be known as obese people. this is stuff we choose to eat because it tastes good! and one of the best thangs to fry…it’s fried apple pie! very american i think!
Deep fried ice cream and Oreos and stuff sound good. But deep fried butter … why? Butter itself doesn’t even taste that good, so why would you eat it … deep fried? It’s a bit pointless and it sounds gross. And … deep fried Pepsi … ???
Deep fried butter is no worse than eating deep fried ice cream. The trick to eating something like this is to eat it in moderation. People arent got to eat deep fried butter every day. maybe once or twice a year. and considering how much butter we put on toast, mashed potatoes, waffels, pancakes, in baked goods, i dont think im going to freak out over a small amount of fried butter. I’ll try anything once.
How the hell do you deep-fry pepsi?
Deep fried PEPSI how does that even work!!
Seriously people chill the hell out, It’s not like people eat this every day, It’s something you eat once in your life, Just to say you did. There is more butter in Mac and Cheese for gawds sake. Fried Butter or Fried Pepsi is 99.9% batter with a little Butter or Pepsi mixed in and about the size of a cupcake. It is not the cause of all the problems in the world.
omg deep fried cookies. talk about a heart attack waiting to happen. i agree this is crazy. regular cookis ar fatting enough now deep fried cookies. this is crazy
The picture had deep Fried pepsi on it. How the hell do you get deep freid pepsi.
Y’all are making a bigger deal about this than it’s worth. When deciding whether it’s good for your health or not you always go back to the basics. Calories in = calories burned. If you do regular exercise and burn the calories you take in, you’ll be fine. It’s the people who eat too much than are putting themselves in danger.
The French diet tends to be a little heavier on the cholesterol with lots of butter, croissants, escargot, etc. but they tend to eat smaller portions and their lifestyles tend to be more active than Americans. Also, if you know which foods help counter the high cholesterol (like oatmeal+exercise), then you’re golden because you can bring your cholesterol levels back to normal with a few days worth of healthy foods.
I for one, am all for this idea. I think our current food choices are extremely limited. When you travel abroad to places like China, Thailand, and the like, their food choices are so much more varied it’s not even funny. They have so many types of vegetables and fruits that they eat. We basically only eat chicken, beef, pork, apples, oranges, bananas, broccoli, lettuce, onions, carrots, same old stuff day after day.
To see people branching out and broadening their minds actually makes me happy because I for one don’t want to see the exact same food choices year after year. I don’t care if they are a bit fatty, I’ll just have to make the necessary adjustments in my life to accommodate.
We live in a country where children are brought up watching commercials on cereal. Now, the commercial says the cereal is nutritious, because it has a minimal % of Iron, whilst completely ignoring the fact that these children might just as well be plugged into a corn syrup IV.
I’d say things in this country are pretty bad, and I’m not surprised someone came up with something as grotesque (my gag reflex is haunted by the tohugh) as deep-fried butter.
However, when you consider that there is corn syrup in “organic crab cakes”, and that food companies are allowed NOT to report trans fat levels if they are below, what is it, 2%?
I don’t find this piece quite relevant. There have been endless studies and even films about how bad the food we eat is, and yet nothing is changing… It’s quite distressing.
hey, thats really normal. in jersy u can have anything deep fried. deep friied oreos are awesome. i cant wait for summer so i can have deep fried pbj, lollie pops, deep fied pepsi is possible, fo real!ill get some deep fried pencils to use at skool
weell ur all dumb. exept me, cuz ive been to this store in jersy, it has evrything deep fried. ad cmon ppl isnt it obvios! deep fried butter is for deep fried rolls and deep fried pbj goes on it u guys now nothing, what would america do without carbonated sodas or deep fries food
It’s worse than the Double Down KFC is going to have.
I’m from Texas, so I know the foods they have at the State Fair . . . but fried butter?
That’s like ordering a deep fried heart attack with a side of medical bills.
Some ppl would eat shoe leather if it was deep fried.
Gross deep fried butter and all of that other deep fried stuff gross.
I think people should be able to eat what they want. Case closed…
It has been said “Don’t knock it until you have tried it”,..but I’m not rushing out anytime soon to try it!!
deep fried cookies?
WTF
they really want people to die faster dont they?
Okay yeah Fried ice cream is bad….
Bad fried butter wtf??
I am not into leave eatting, but come one people just cause you can fry something DOSE NOT mean you have to, and ofcourse Texas would be the one to do this, I mean why dont they just Rip Out Your Heart and FRY it, save money time and health problems I mean come on.
>_<
I Think America Just Sank An Inch.
this article is ridiculous. these people are eating these fried foods maybe once a year. the blogger says he can’t turn down a slice of pizza and he has a burger addiction, he probably gains more weight in a month with those habits than the folks who try the fried butter at the state fair. i’ve tried fried oreos, fried twinkies, fried snickers, fried ice cream, fried cheesecake, and fried coke–key word being “tried”. i don’t seek them out. i don’t go home and make them in my kitchen. the fun of going to the fair is to try the food–and fairs are not, nor have they ever been, intended to cater to the health conscious. people need to get a grip and live a little. a little bite of fried butter at a fair is not going to kill you, unless you choke on it.
Deep Fried Butter!?!? How Is That Possible!?!? I Swear, Next People Are Gonna Say “Deep Fried _______!”
Put Food/Drink Here
What The H*ll!!! Are People TRYING To kill Us?!?! And Besides, People Don’t give A Sh*t About Us, They Just Wanna Make Money!!! It Pisses Me Off How People Are Abusing The Precious Items That We Have! Sure, Fat And Other Health Hazards Make Food Taste Good, But Sometimes We Have to Stop And Eat Something Healthy! I Know I’m A Hypocrite For Saying This But, At Least I’m Trying to Eat Healthier!
LOL Deep Fried Cookie dough i know what its also called….A Cookie RETARDS!!!
yuck, the whole fried butter, cany bar, cookie dough, oreos, eww those things were not ment to eat that way. Now fried ice cream is not so bad its a dessert from another ethnicity that has been enjoyed for ages and ice cream has nutrients that these other snack foods dont. All the other crap please give me a break and if you want high cholesteral and heart problems these things are going to give it to you, and for those of you eating fried butter you may as well stick a spoon in the tub of butter.
you freeze the pepsi, and then batter it and fry it.
Yuck, I heard about this, its disgusting.
What is disturbing is that people go and spend money at many fairs for something fried on a stick.
They had bacon dipped in chocolate on a stick recently. Talk about disgusting. It sounded nasty.
I wouldn’t want fried food as it’s bad for you in general.
Not meaning any of the health nut stuff but it is a fact that fried food is not good for one’s body in general.
I would say to bake not fry any day with that. How does someone really taste the food when it’s covered in some fried batter? It isn’t appealing to eat that way.
Wonderful! Just yesterday I waited in line behind a 300 lb. woman for 20 minutes,because she couldn’t decide what she wanted a the local Dairy Queen.I finally got aggravated and told her”Lady,just pick something! You don’t need it anyway!’Hate to be rude,but Jeez! Yes,this is something we all need in our already “Fat-free” over indulged lives.SO…Whose going to try it first?
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That is really gross. peolpe compare it to things like cotton candy and fried icecream, even funnel cake. funnel cake=fried panckae, you eat pancakes. fried icecream=icecream, you eat ice cream. fried butter=butter, you don’y just eat butter, with toast you do, but not a stick, not straight up.
Eww.
You want to hear something just as bad, if not worse, than deep fried butter?
This year at the Wisconsin State Fair, they had… Chocolate Covered Bacon.
No, I’m not even joking. And yes, it was a smash hit. I was so nauseated by watching my boyfriend try it that I was forced to forgo my once-a-year cream puff.
That’s really common in the south. They deep fry anything and everything. It’s just the thing to do in the south. People need to stop being so ignorant. I’m originally from the north and it’s taken me a minute to get used to southern living but I have learned to accept the different ways of living within our own country. Think before you (blog poster included) make ignorant comments about others ways of life. So what if someone likes to eat something deep fried? Who are you to judge others? What people do is their own business and not yours. Therefore, your opinion doesn’t matter.
How about a deep fried heart attack covered with lard and mayonnaise, with just a tiny bit of sugar on top.
wow…seriously its really dumb for u ppl to say that nobody cares because u obviously do or else u wouldnt have gone to the bottom of this xtreamly long page after you just read the artical! get a life!!!!!! and im only writng this becasue i dont feel like doing my home work!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! GET A LIFE!!!!!!! PLS!
Deep fried Pepsi???? How does that even work?!?!
I love fried food….but i never realized what people are frying TURKEY FOR EXANPLE
ewww. fried butter? thats really horrible. sure, people eat fried ice cream, but we eat ice cream normally, we do not eat butter in large quantities normally. this shows you how gluttinous our society has become.
Duh
Deepfried butter
THE FATTIEST THING IN THE HISTORY OF HISTORY
Oh for cryin’ out loud, who cares?!
You wasted way too much of your life complaining about this.
I for one think I’d be in heaven at a place like that. Lmao.
Deep fried Pepsi? How?
ok.so maybe deep fried butter is a little extreme.
but hey.this is america.
[ as stated before in another comment]
we eat fried ice cream in some mexican restaurants
yeahh. most fried thinqs are a heart attack/cloged artery waiting to happen.
but so is most things we eat here.
ok we eat hot dogs;; yeahh they have pig snouts.
and we eat maruchan instant soups;;
the shrimp ones dont have shrimp. THEY HAVE CHICKEN TOES.
and even though it’s unhealthy and unsanitary.
we still eat it because ..well its pretty damn good.
anyways.
like iSaid. most of the things mentioned up there are pretty extreeme.
and even though idont know why you would fry a pepsi
that’s how people eat.
ps:;
for the people saying how gross that is and how they’re on a vegiterian diet.
vegitarian doesnt mean you eat healthy
it just means you dont eat meat.
so yeahh.
deep fried oreos, cookie dough, and deep fried penut butter cups are on your diet as well
yeahh. burn:)
haha well ayways.
like isaid
that’s the people’s health choices
and food choices.
enjoyy?:)
I always enjoy a Deep Fried Cigarette right after finishing my Deep Fried Butter wrapped in Bacon and smothered with Cheese.
I think that is totally disgusting. No wonder obesity is a problem in America.
Have you people seen how looooooooooong this comment list is! It’s crazy
Its funny… Ice cream is made from cream, with just about the same amount of fat. In our minds butter is salty, but of course it can be sweet…. why not.
I however will be the last one to ever try such a treat. I think that would be half of the average persons calorie count in one fail swoop. Every thing is bigger in Texas, and now the butts can be as well……
hmmm… well not surprising? people a century back wouldve been like “hey, do you know there is this restuarant serving 9 layers of cheese, chicken mayonaise and who knows what between two pieces of bread?”
It all sounds interesting and somewhat delicious. I bet doctors fainted when they discovered caramel apples … lol
I’m also interested in the deep fried Pepsi. Sweet.
No wonder Texas is the fattest state in the union!! I will not eat that crap at the fair!
How are you supposed to deep-fry Pepsi?
Just had deep fried butter at the fair. I was interviewed afterwards and I said it tasted kind of like fried cheese i.e. mozzarella sticks. I don’t think this will ruin my six pack, however most people posting think I will turn morbidly obese overnight. Its the people who eat fastfood 7 days a week that have a problem.
The real problem are the subsidies given to our farmer’s making food cheaper than it should be. The dollar menu wouldn’t exist if we were paying efficient market prices for our food. The enemy here is the ag industry that bought up smalls farms yet lobbies to keep the farm subsidies that were designed to help family farmers out in years of varying economic turmoils to keep them from going bankrupt in a bad year. Not to continue to line their pockets and give more money to executives.
I have never really eaten anything deep-fried I am afraid to admit but howether I think that by the end of this year, everything will be deep fried, literally. You won’t be able to walk into a super-market without bumping into something thats ’starchy’ and full of ‘fatty’ goodness. It’s just a perfect example of how the economy is taking a great downfall, so much in fact that there resulting to making ‘deep fried butter’ in a desperate, sad attempt to earn a few more bucks. Everyone talks about eating healthy, but they keep bringing this junk out. Why is this? That is the question that noone can answer, it’s just the way things are in the world that we live in and theres nothing we can do about it.
Howether, there may be nothing we can do about it but I would stay clear of these ‘deep fried butter’ thingy’s for all hells sake, not just because its disgusting but eating just one would probably send you off on a stretcher to your nearest hospital…
I agree, I don’t go out of my way to eat healthy when I go to fairs or carnivals (which is like never, but still.) But deep-fried butter? Ew. I remember thinking how bad deep-fried oreos sounded, but deep-fried butter…
Right on! I went to the fair this summer to find all of these deep fried foods on a stick: twinkies, pickles, cheesecake, etc.
Although I was curious, I couldn’t bring myself to buy a heart attack on a stick.
By now, we should all know that fried foods are not good for us, especially our sweet little hearts. Why do we even fry our foods? There are so many other alternatives. Fried foods don’t taste any better than broiled or baked foods.
For instance, take a piece of fish. Put it in a pan. Put light seasonings over it and one teaspoonful of olive oil on top and bake it for ten minutes. Take the same piece of fish and fry it. I guarantee that the baked piece of fish will taste better.
Another good way to cook your food is to broil it if you don’t own an oven. Marinate the same piece of fish. Add one garlic cloves, crushed; one teaspoonful of lemon juice; two teaspoon dijon mustard; one red pepper, slice; one tomato chopped; one cup chopped onion; one small zucchini chopped; three spoonful of water, one teaspoon of olive oil. Cook over medium heat 8-10 minutes. Pour over your rice and beans. “Yummylicious,”
I hardly think the author or this article is “making a huge fuss” or going overboard. They’ve simply stated that they have an opinion: deep fried butter is gross.
They haven’t started a petition, they haven’t spammed anyone (as far as I know), they haven’t posted huge signs or anything else and they certainly didn’t do this for the attention. They did it because they wanted to, plain and simple. If they did it for the attention we would be seeing them all over the place and not just on this blog.
Also, why would you eat a stick of flavored butter? I have no idea but I don’t think I’d pay to try it (and try it is all I’d do). There have been far worse, that’s for sure…