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[RedKing]

Now if you want horrifying, state fairs are your source for all things deep-fried that should not be.

Spoiler: Such as biscuits and gravy. (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Or this. ALL OF THIS. (Sorry, large image) (click to show/hide)

I especially like the cute nurse with the defibrillator paddles on the sign. Nice touch.

[Yoink]

I especially like the cute nurse with the defibrillator paddles on the sign. Nice touch.[/spoiler]

Bahahah! Doubtless most of their target audience would mistake them for some kind of grilling/frying equipment. 
Yeah, deep-fried butter is something I'd rather not think about. I like to imagine it's not a common thing, even over there...

[TD1]

I have to say, I now want to try chocolate covered bacon....

[RedKing]

I especially like the cute nurse with the defibrillator paddles on the sign. Nice touch.[/spoiler]

Bahahah! Doubtless most of their target audience would mistake them for some kind of grilling/frying equipment. 
Yeah, deep-fried butter is something I'd rather not think about. I like to imagine it's not a common thing, even over there...

You just keep thinking that, Sparky.

One of my favorite BBQ joints, while you're waiting on your food they serve you a free basket of hushpuppies and little tubs of butter to dip them in. My daughter, from an early age, would often dispense with the hushpuppies and just eat the butter. Butter isn't an ingredient here, it's a condiment.


I've had some excellent bacon chocolate (fine chocolate with crumbled bits of bacon mixed in). Somehow I think what they're selling is altogether different (strips of bacon with a heavy layer of choco-sludge).

[Frumple]

Deep-fried butter isn't common, no. Not so far as I'm aware, anyway. Carny food is... something different. To a certain extent.

It tends to be meat/fish and veggies that gets fried more than anything, really. That, potatoes, and certain sorts of bread.

... though, to a certain extent, RK is right on the butter thing. I've actually mostly cut it out of my diet, m'self, but there's certain butters (particularly some of the honey butter stuff, aiee) that I could just... eat. I don't, but could.

Folks generally don't just eat the butter raw, though. Put enough on food for it to be considered fooded butter instead of buttered food, sure, but not alone. Often. That I've seen.

E: In thread related happies, it apparently turns out that someone out there has spent time putting (one of) MSG's Snake(s) into Shimakaze's outfit. It is the most amazing of things.

[Yoink]

I can't judge your daughter too harshly, RK, I remember eating butter at least a couple of times as a kid. >.>
Although my mother fortunately disapproved that habit into nonexistence before it could take hold.

@Frumple: I think the main example of fried carny food over here would be corndogs, which I can't remember ever eating.
Topics like this make me especially glad to be vegetarian.

[RedKing]

My in-laws would, for holiday meals, make 5 pounds of mashed potatoes in a large tureen with an entire stick of butter worked into the potatoes. Then they'd melt another stick of butter over top of the potatoes so that there was a glorious yellow pool when you opened the lid.

Did I mention my in-laws are rather large people? (But daaaaaamn those are some good potatoes...)

[Frumple]

@Frumple: I think the main example of fried carny food over here would be corndogs, which I can't remember ever eating.
Topics like this make me especially glad to be vegetarian.

To hell with corndogs, sausagedogs are where it's at. Especially if it's maple sausage or somethin'. Dip it in BBQ sauce or syrup, or that delicious combination that comes from mixing ketchup and syrup. It is amazing.

I've been half-way jonesing for some, lately. It's been a few years since I've had any.

Corndogs aren't precisely carny food, though. They're somewhere on the border between it and normal food, at least in this area. Can get them in pretty much any grocery store, used to (still?) serve them in school cafeterias, that sort of thing. Really, they're just hotdogs on a stick. Not exactly one of the fancier fried things.

[Yoink]

Well, I guess that just drives home the greasy, deep-fried point of this conversation- they're most certainly carny food here.

My in-laws would, for holiday meals, make 5 pounds of mashed potatoes in a large tureen with an entire stick of butter worked into the potatoes. Then they'd melt another stick of butter over top of the potatoes so that there was a glorious yellow pool when you opened the lid.

Did I mention my in-laws are rather large people? (But daaaaaamn those are some good potatoes...)

Oh god, my mother makes mashed potatoes with this amazing cheese sauce, but it's something I always regret eating afterwards. Between the milk and butter (not a whole stick, but still) used in the potatoes and the cheese, it makes for a ridiculously heavy meal.
Edit: Problem is, it's so good that you can hardly help having second helpings.

[Loud Whispers]

You mean cookies.

Spoiler: THIS is a biscuit. (click to show/hide)

Which is typically larger than a whole cup of tea.

Southern dialect is best dialect.

When a man says biscuits he means biscuits.

Also the biscuits I were referring to are made out of tea leaves.

[Bauglir]

My in-laws would, for holiday meals, make 5 pounds of mashed potatoes in a large tureen with an entire stick of butter worked into the potatoes. Then they'd melt another stick of butter over top of the potatoes so that there was a glorious yellow pool when you opened the lid.

Did I mention my in-laws are rather large people? (But daaaaaamn those are some good potatoes...)

That doesn't sound like enough butter for 5 pounds of potato. Unless we've also got some cream cheese/sour cream/melted cheese worked in to bolster its efforts.

[Itnetlolor]

I had myself an interesting encounter. Just after getting home from work, and unloading, ready to unwind; I discover that there was a little honey bee on my shirt. It apparently got stuck (may have attempted to sting me), I don't know if I brushed up on it, or if it flew into my shirt at full-throttle (especially while I was on my moped), but it was stuck on me for a fair while. Didn't discover it until a few minutes inside.

I was startled, and immediately impeded it's flight by covering it with the rest of my shirt, before stepping outside to release it. Surprisingly, the bee was just about as calm as I was, and wanted off me as much as I wanted it off me. Working together, I looked around for a plant and a means of scraping it off my shirt without harming it, and after a bit of effort, I managed to free the little guy onto a nearby palm tree, and after releasing it to the tree, I basically pet it's head in gratitude for helping out, and showing that I'm harmless. Surprisingly, it didn't freak out, and attempt to sting me. It just chilled out as I walked back indoors. Nice to know that not all bugs see me as a harbinger of death. Still working on making peace with the spiders though.

EDIT:
Making it more interesting, I don't recall whether I'm allergic to bees or not, but it was nice not to get stung to find out.

[TD1]

*Nenjin enters the area of Itnetlolor. Peace negotiations with spiders disappear. War resumes its pace.

[scrdest]

*Nenjin enters the area of Itnetlor. Peace negotiations with spiders disappear. War resumes its pace.

You can use  [me=Whoever]  to get proper formatting.

[TD1]

Fine? Doesn't really matter that much.

* Nenjin enters the area of Itnetlolor. Peace negotiations with spiders disappear. War resumes its pace.