Texas State Fair best food award

[hemibee]

This years winning food at the Texas State Fair has been announced and it is. . .

http://shine.yahoo.com/shine-food/state-fair-texas-names-best-fried-foods-big-165200012.html

 

[CarlS]

I would love to have been able to sample that fare. Yum!

 

[Rocky]

They all look tasty (and no doubt are), but that's the stuff that drives another nail in your coffin.

 

[CarlS]

I love fried foods and grew up on them. But I rarely eat them now.

 

[Rocky]

I love fried foods and grew up on them. But I rarely eat them now.

Now that I'm older and wiser, and now that we have so much information about what's in food and how it impacts your body, I eat very much differently than I did 25-30 years ago.
The fast food chains don't make any money off me except for maybe once or twice a year.
I enjoy all the "bad" foods such as fried foods, but I only indulge once in a while. We have wonderful fish and chips here that are hard to turn down when we're out on a bike run, but I resist the temptation most of the time

 

[CarlS]

Rocky, I can resist everything but temptation!

 

[Rocky]

Rocky, I can resist everything but temptation!

 

[keystiger]

Rocky, I can resist everything but temptation!

I admit I don't eat as well as I should.....more like a goat (according to Shannon, my moto is if it ain't movin its fair game) but she is bringing me around with her good home cookin

 

[DaveM]

I would like to attend something like that. I am not sure if I would eat much of that food either as I am not really into fried foods much

 

[hemibee]

I would like to attend something like that. I am not sure if I would eat much of that food either as I am not really into fried foods much

You would starve in Texas, we even chicken fry our bacon.

If its fried I'll eat most anything. I haven't tried fried Twinkie's yet but there will come the chance some day. Kim says the boys and I are like roaches, always eating or looking for something to eat.


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[DaveM]

You right I would stave, we normally only use one of those small bottles of cooking oil a year

 

[hemibee]

You right I would stave, we normally only use one of those small bottles of cooking oil a year

It's bought by the case around here, 6 gallons per case.

 

[DaveM]

and that is a weeks supply by the sounds of it

 

[CarlS]

Fried foods are a Southern tradition. It is due to the heat produced by baking and roasting. Rich folks used to have detached kitchens to keep the heat out of the main living areas. Baking and roasting was winter fare. Poor folks in the South used to fry veggies as meat substitutes: fried green tomatoes (yum), friend egg plant, fried squash, fried okra, etc. I grew up eating and loving that stuff. We used to use a couple of gallons of peanut oil a month.

 

[DaveM]

What interests me is the way you fry a turkey at Thanks Giving putting the whole bird into a deep fryer.

 

[CarlS]

Deep frying the turkey is a convenient way to prepare it if you are having a picnic or an outdoors family reunion for Thanksgiving. It requires no electricity and it doesn't take long. We usually have both fried turkey and baked turkey as well as baked ham at Thanksgiving.

 

[hemibee]

The turkey frier is a rite of passage for a Southerner. . . well where I grew up it was the fish frier but could do double duty for turkey. When I was young all the friers were homemade, today most are store bought. We would take an old car or truck wheel, cut out the center and install an old gas heater burner in it and slap some legs on it. That was the best fish I've ever eaten.

 

[devo]

shaddup you guys
I'm getting the munchies and that aint fun with no teef.

 

[hemibee]

 

[CarlS]

The turkey frier is a rite of passage for a Southerner. . . well where I grew up it was the fish frier but could do double duty for turkey. When I was young all the friers were homemade, today most are store bought. We would take an old car or truck wheel, cut out the center and install an old gas heater burner in it and slap some legs on it. That was the best fish I've ever eaten.

Yes, Sir. Almost every family had one of those. I can taste the speckled perch (crappie) cooking on one of those now!

shaddup you guys
I'm getting the munchies and that aint fun with no teef.