Some of the deep fried goodness from the Texas State Fair

**Tartan Tess** · 13th October 11, 08:30 AM

I'll stick to roasted peanuts and ice cream thank you.

**Drac** · 13th October 11, 08:38 AM

Originally Posted by 2a5t2f7

I think seven of my arteries slammed shut just reading the menu boards......

Here in South Carolina we have fried green tomatoes, fried dill pickles, fried shrimp, fried oysters, and fried gator tail, but the sign of fried butter was more than I can even imagine.....

Your sporran looks great by the way!!

That would be an Artificer original.

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Having been born in Texas I'd be perfectly happy with cornmeal-rolled fried okra.

Didn't see that in these pics -- too ordinary, I'm sure -- but they definitely had me at chicken fried bacon.

Got you covered -

Jim

**piperdbh** · 13th October 11, 08:45 AM

Originally Posted by Dale Seago

Having been born in Texas I'd be perfectly happy with cornmeal-rolled fried okra.

Do you, on purpose, call it o-kree, the way I do?

**OC Richard** · 14th October 11, 04:07 AM

Maybe it's another one of those Scotland/Southern US connexions, but it seems that Scotland and Texas lead the way with deep-fried food.

In Scotland there's something called "pizza supper".

Here it is

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_pizza

And here's an amusing look at the State Fair of Texas fried foods:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HruBW...7E7AAC7F5C3A22

**Meggers** · 14th October 11, 05:25 AM

oooh good heavens.....only in America would we have deep fried butter to go with your chicken fried bacon and deep fried cheesecake....My arteries clogged just reading those signs

please tell me those numbers off to the right of the food name wasnt the dollar price! $11 for butter? Is it in bulk? I know state food is crazy expensive but....really?

did they have deep fried cheese curds? <---- Wisconsin classic right there. Ain't nothing better than deep fried cheese curds.

**Bugbear** · 14th October 11, 10:10 AM

Originally Posted by piperdbh

Do you, on purpose, call it o-kree, the way I do?

I grow okra, and yes, sometimes I do use that pronunciation, and yes, I grew up next to Texas, and yes, people in Texas sometimes say "o-kree," and words ending in "a" end up with "ee," and yes, I know okra originated in Africa.

I like pickled okra, too.