DEEP FRIED EVERYTHING

Tuesday, August 21, 2007. Great story in the NY Times today. Seems at the Great Indiana State Fair this year, they are requiring all fried foods to be fried in oils with no trans fats. That is the good news. What’s the bad news, you ask?

The Times pointed out that a common snack treat at the fair is the COMBO PLATTER. What’s on a combo platter? How about: One battered Snickers bar, two battered Oreos and a battered Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup. That is battered as in battered and deep friend.

Shucks, at that fair, deep fried french fries (curly, thick cut, thin cut, ribbon cut, spiced and French) are just the start of it all.

For years now, we have been aware that a major treat down South was a deep fried Twinkie (and for that we used to thank God that we were Kosher!!), but a Snickers bar? A Reeses Peanut Butter Cup?

The best is yet to come, however: At the fair, there is a booth where you can get deep fried Pepsi. We kid you not! Deep fried Pepsi. Uh-huh, you read that right. How do you deep fry soda?

You make a dough that is Pepsi based and then batter it in a Pepsi based batter and then deep fry it for 90 seconds in soy oil (no trans fats).

Woo Wee! Whoda thunk it? Deep fried Pepsi, indeed! Don’t that just beat everything, y’all!