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Thursday, August 12, 2004

Rural abominations

PZ Myers • 9 Comments

It's county fair time out here in Western Minnesota, and this afternoon my daughter and I had to make a brief stop at the fairgrounds to drop off a poster she'd made for the humane society. There I saw a sight that chilled me. Something I had not thought possible.

It was in the food court.

Deep-fried twinkies. Onna stick.

The horror. The horror.

And Skatje insists that she's going to try one when we return to the fair on Sunday. Is this a good thing? Am I committing child abuse by omission by allowing her to poison herself this way?

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Comments:

#5206: Ben — 08/13 at 05:30 AM
I think you'd be guilty at worst of child neglect, not abuse - unless you're forcing her to eat the twinkie.

Were the twinkies next to the deep-fried Mars bars?

#5207: PZ Myers — 08/13 at 07:01 AM
It's a booth that seems to be selling deep-fried anything.

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris

#5208: — 08/13 at 07:29 AM
If you've never had a deep-fried Snickers bar, you haven't lived. It's so good, in part because you know it's so bad.

#5211: Stacy — 08/13 at 08:43 AM
I had a deep fried cheesecake once. It was awesome.

I saw an episode of Nigella Lawson's cooking show where she made deep-fried Mars bars (just the mini ones, not the fullsize ones), and she said she gives them to her friends when they come over. So they can't be that bad, right? RIGHT?

#5212: — 08/13 at 08:46 AM
"Onna stick." You know, I just finished Small Gods...

#5232: Reed A. Cartwright — 08/13 at 12:37 PM
Being from the South, I can say that deep-fried "anything" will be great. We even deep fry fat on occasion.

My favorite roll at the local sushi bar is the one that is deep fried--the roll, not just the fish.

#5233: PZ Myers — 08/13 at 12:53 PM
Hey, man, shouldn't you be trying to dispel Southern stereotypes? You aren't going to start telling Jeff Foxworthy jokes, are you? It's like admitting that all us Northerners of Scandihoovian descent are fond of salt herring and lefse...

...oh, wait. You can just walk into any grocery store here and find that stuff piled high. Never mind.

rrt: I'm going to have to ask the seller if his last name is "Dibbler".

PZ Myers
Division of Science and Math
University of Minnesota, Morris

#5251: — 08/13 at 08:48 PM
The undoubted winner, though, has to be the Cajuns. To make a rue (which starts out lots of great Cajun food like etouffee), you take oil and......prepare yourself.....fry flour. FLOUR!

#5253: Leah — 08/14 at 01:34 AM
In Scotland, apparently they deep fry everything and anything. At least, that's what I heard from my friends that just went there.

I had deep fried oreos once . . . they were pretty disgusting. Then again, I don't really like any friend food except onion rings, fish fillets, and the occasional chicken strip. Frying just seems . . . heavy.

You'll have to let us know if she ended up liking them.

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