What will they think of next?
Oct. 15th, 2005 12:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
ruSo, okay. Today was the start of the state fair. I knew this, as if the fact that half of my genetics class was absent today didn't clue me in. But in any case, I like the fair. Eien-chan and I have been making a habit of going the past couple years, mainly just to get the fair experience and see some of the displays. Usually we have a small list of things we want to do while we're there, and can usually get things accomplished in an afternoon. So, it's enough to say we went, and it's certainly a fun afternoon, but we also don't feel the need to go and completely lose ourselves in it.
But anyway, I digress. According to my mom, there was an article in the newspaper today that was talking about the fair, and was discussing some of the food they'll be having, including some new gems-of-the-fat-world. Now, I've heard of some very stranged deep fried foods coming out of the fair. Deep fried candy bars, deep fried twinkies, things of that heart-attack-inducing nature. Now those alone are bad, but now I think they've hit a new low.
Deep fried fruit.
Deep. Fried. Fruit. Deep fried fruit?!? How? Why? Why in the world would someone want to take a perfectly fine and actually rather tasty apple or strawberry, wrap it up in god-knows-what, and then dunk it into a boiling oil bath? That's just wrong. I mean, the apples and strawberries around here can be pretty damn good on their own, especially now for apples. After all, it's fall. Apples are at their prime now. Why would you want to molest one in such a way? I mean, comparatively, twinkies and candy bars I can almost understand. They're still in the same group of foods, at least. You're only just increasing the already large number of calories by a few hundred. But fruit? It really shouldn't be subjected to such things. At least with caramel and candy apples, the apple still looks like an apple, and it probably still tastes like an apple and has at least some of the nutritional value of an apple. When you deep-fry it, it probably just kills everything. I betcha when it comes out it's only a shadow of its former glory. And you just know everyone's gonna gobble them down like there's no tomorrow.
Gods. I'd hate to see what they decide to knock in to the deep fat fryer next.
On a side note, that almost came out "deep frat fryer".
I'll stop now.
But anyway, I digress. According to my mom, there was an article in the newspaper today that was talking about the fair, and was discussing some of the food they'll be having, including some new gems-of-the-fat-world. Now, I've heard of some very stranged deep fried foods coming out of the fair. Deep fried candy bars, deep fried twinkies, things of that heart-attack-inducing nature. Now those alone are bad, but now I think they've hit a new low.
Deep fried fruit.
Deep. Fried. Fruit. Deep fried fruit?!? How? Why? Why in the world would someone want to take a perfectly fine and actually rather tasty apple or strawberry, wrap it up in god-knows-what, and then dunk it into a boiling oil bath? That's just wrong. I mean, the apples and strawberries around here can be pretty damn good on their own, especially now for apples. After all, it's fall. Apples are at their prime now. Why would you want to molest one in such a way? I mean, comparatively, twinkies and candy bars I can almost understand. They're still in the same group of foods, at least. You're only just increasing the already large number of calories by a few hundred. But fruit? It really shouldn't be subjected to such things. At least with caramel and candy apples, the apple still looks like an apple, and it probably still tastes like an apple and has at least some of the nutritional value of an apple. When you deep-fry it, it probably just kills everything. I betcha when it comes out it's only a shadow of its former glory. And you just know everyone's gonna gobble them down like there's no tomorrow.
Gods. I'd hate to see what they decide to knock in to the deep fat fryer next.
On a side note, that almost came out "deep frat fryer".
I'll stop now.