Americans probably feel like they have a nagging spouse when it comes to the media's relentless coverage of our face-stuffing spiral into obesity. Most people get it -- they're not fat between the ears. We are overweight as a people.
And yet, sometimes a story appears that reminds us why we are the vikings of plates -- we conquer all foods that dare pass before our forks and knives! Please put your sausagey fingers together to welcome deep-fried butter!
The Dallas Morning News notes the newest entry at the Texas State Fair, which consists of golf ball-sized frozen chunks of butter, rolled in dough and then deep fried. Melted butter apparently oozes out when you take a bite of the food-on-a-stick. Texas is officially a hot mess.
WFAA out of Dallas-Fort Worth looks at the other seven finalists for the Big Tex Choice Awards for
the fair's best new food offering. The fried sweet potato spiral
and peaches and cream seem light by comparison. The winners will be
announced Monday.
Eat Me Daily points to the play-at-home version -- Food Network star Paula Dean's recipe for Paula's Fried Butter Balls
-- which call for two sticks of butter and two ounces of cream cheese. All you vegetarians out there (the recipe uses peanut oil),
welcome to the butter version of a meat coma.
If you want to go in a different direction, you can always make a fried butter sandwich. And for those who feel they have not been given a sufficiently buttered option: butter fried Krispy Kreme donuts. Armed with all this knowledge, just try not to turn into a butter monster.
[Image via Flickr: robert s. donovan]
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