All joking aside, and speaking as someone who is not above trying the new fried experiments brought out for fair season every year, this is the best look at what a fried stick of butter actually is that I've seen.
Generally speaking the fry-basket freakshow of the season usually tastes like itself but with fry batter on it. I mean, fried Oreos pretty much just tastes like Oreos but with fry stuff on it. It's not like frying has a significant transformative effect on the flavor. Same with fried Snickers, although I have yet to find fried beer, which seems like it would have to be its own taste.
Even though watching the remains of the butter stick glop out of the middle of Anthony's "brunch" is a little stomach turning, I'm actually more interested in trying the fried butter now that I've seen it. I expected it to be more literally like biting a stick of butter with batter on the outside. If it's just a really buttery pancake with sugar on top, I'm in!
(And don't pretend like you never drank the melted butter out of the corn-on-the-cob dish. There is totally a place for butter drinking in the respectable range of the gross/palatable scale.)
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Cynicism alert: This post is off topic, and a pure theory: The Bush family is deliberately attempting to sabotage Perry's campaign because a win for Perry in 2012 would put a serious wrinkle in Jeb Bush's 2016 presidential campaign. If Obama's presidential re-election is a shoe-in, Jeb Bush will ride in a 2016 wave of rabid Republicanist hatred. Conversely, if Perry wins the 2012 presidential election, the Republican party eats itself alive, and 2016 is a Democratic win. This is a purely diabolical, and cynical approach by the Bush family.
Anyone named Bush has the same chance as someone named Enron to ever get elected to anything ever again.
Watch again, and look at the people walking by in the background. Actions have consequences.
LOL...my stomach couldn't handle watching that again!
It's all about a new experience my friend... & a shared experience as well... Fried butta like butta baby! Jumpin in the jacuzzi with the kids...long day.
I see heartburn.
I'm thinking you spend the rest of the day feeling greasy. I'd at least want to eat it with a fork.
Was Paula Deen selling those things?
If you like fried yumminess, head out to Wisconsin sometime and try deep fried cheese curds.
had the fried cheese curds at Culver's tonight... so bad for you, but SO good!
I really had to laugh at the clips of Perry eating that giant pork chop on a stick this morning... I swear, he looked like he was choking each bite down like he was trying not to barf. They should have dragged him over to this booth right afterward!
Have you seen the unfortunate pictures of Michelle and Marcus Bachmann indulging in footlong corndogs? The jokes write themselves....
I love junk food too, but I almost lost my dinner when the butter started oozing out. NO NO NO.
I'm with you on this. I love junk food. I love all sorts of deep fried stuff and I haven't missed trying a new flavor of Doritos in decades. But deep frying a battered stick of butter is kind of a stomach turning event to me. It sounds like something Jake from Two and a Half Men might like.
I'm actually more grossed out by him drinking that much sugar at 11am.
I think that the WI state fair has deep fried beer. And a deep fried ruebens. And deep fried chocolate covered bacon. Go Wisconsin!
being from the South, it'd be difficult to not enjoy some fried food, but nothing really for the sake of frying it, a la fried butter; i think fried cheese sticks is the friediest thing i'd have. oh, and i have had fried green tomatoes once. the whole thing reminds me a bit of Homer Simpson's moon waffles, puts it on a toothpick and devours it.
or in the words of David Spade from 'Tommy Boy', "ugh! i can hear you getting fatter."
but was that a slightly sarcastic or sardonic tone in Anthony's voice when he says he had to get 'a pop'? if so, he's my kinda guy. :) (tho i do like the longer hair he had when at TRMS, but it's the campaign trail so what're ya gonna do?)
and Will, drinking a bit of butter run-off from corn-on-the-cob is one thing, a whole stick of butter is something else entirely. for myself, however, i would generally sop it up with some bread.
hmm, 'a whole stick of butter'. i kind of like that phrase as a descriptor for something which is fascinatingly disgusting, or maybe when you've got too much of something even tho it may be good, too much of a good thing. :)