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September 4, 2009

Deep fried butter: A new low?

butterAnd we wonder why two-thirds of Americans are overweight.

Add this one to the horrifying, artery-clogging trend of deep frying everything -- and clearly we mean everything: Deep-fried butter (you read that correctly). It is among the new offerings that will be available at the Texas State Fair this year, where fried food is as outsized as everything there.

Your cardiologist is cringing right now.

I don't think I need to tell you that a stick of butter is 810 calories and that is before anyone coats it and tosses it into the deep fryer.

Contributor Laura T. Coffey tells us how it's done on the website for NBC's Today Show.

“I mean, butter by itself does not taste good,” the dish's creator, 39-year-old Dallas resident Abel Gonzales Jr., told her. “Nobody just grabs a stick of butter and eats it. That would be gross.”

Yes, it would.

"So here’s what Gonzales does: He takes 100 percent pure butter, whips it until it is light and fluffy, freezes it, then surrounds it with dough," Coffey writes. "The butter-laden dough balls are then dropped into the deep fryer."

When it's done, deep-fried butter apparently tastes like a buttered roll, though when it comes to your health, a buttered roll would be so much better for you.

Gonzales could be the poster child for unhealthy cooking. His past creations apparently include Texas Fried Cookie Dough, Fried Peanut Butter, Jelly and Banana Sandwich and Fried Coke recipes.

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Posted by Stephanie Desmon at 12:10 PM | | Comments (7)
Categories: Diet and exercise
        

Comments

Apparently, there's a recipe for it, from none other than the cholesterol-loving Paula Deen. I actually think I'd try it. As gross as it sounds, it might taste good as a condiment to a grilled chicken sandwich. ;)

Kelly, that is so wrong.

I heard Paula Deen on the radio a few months ago talking about a different over-the-top recipe of hers. She said that a serving was "one--per lifetime."

Howdy from Texas! Looks like y'all got your panties in a wad over our great State Fair. As a proud attendee of the world's largest State Fair for over 35 years, you are missing the Texas mindset. If it ain't over the top, it ain't big enough for Texas. Uh, yeah, we know its probably the most unhealthy thing in the world, but State Fair is only 3 weeks a year, and everyone goes for the wild food concoctions, which you may eat once or twice, then wait for the new stuff next year. Get over yourself, we are tough enough to handle these things we refer to as "heart-attack-on-a-stick". And we really enjoy them for their incredible ability to tweak you yankee food police, that's great Texas fun, and y'all miss the joke (since its on you). So come on down to the greatest State Fair in the country, have some fun, but just don't forget to go home.

Mike V every time you gobble up your yellow wad of fried butter within a few minutes the distensibility of your blood vessels will be severely reduced, your blood will run yellow like the muddy Rio Grande and the endothelial cells in your blood vessel walls will be overwhelmed. Also inflammatory substances like CRP will flood your circulation--keep doing it Texas brother, your brain cells will infarct, your deep white matter will begin to look like sieve, you won't know whether you're coming or going, Alzheimers will wreck what's left of your irrational cowboy derring do, you'll have to wear your Texas hat over a skull that covers nothing more than the tangled amyloid fibrils of your degenerated brain, and when you wear your Texas boots and set with bravado across those flat seared plains, man, you won't know where you are headed or why. Only three weeks you say? Only one day of this kind of invention in your gut and your heart is set for a lifetime of distress. I am not surprised you guys sent Bush to the White House--I wonder if the guy ate a lot of fried butter before he got to us Yankees. It sure looks like he did, the way he drowned us in the Iraq war!

LOL Anonymous 1, Mike V from Texas 0

Having lived there, I can tell you the fun thing about Texans is, the stupider they act, they smarter they think they are. "Look, ahm wipin' my bee-hind with barbed wire! cuz Texans are tough! take that, you Yankees! woo hoo!"

I think Mike V said it best.."just don't forget to go home"....in other words if your not from Texas and do it the "Texan" way which from all accounts from the Bush's to Ross Perot is generally the wrong way...then we can all go fall off a cliff. I would like to see Texas just go ahead and join up with Chavez..they apparently already think the same way......in terms of deep fried butter.

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Meredith CohnMeredith Cohn has been a reporter since 1991, covering everything from politics and airlines to the environment and medicine. A runner since junior high and a particular eater for almost as long, she tries to keep up on health and fitness trends. Her aim is to bring you the latest news and information from the local and national medical and wellness communities.

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