Althouse: "There are sixty-four foods available on a stick at this year's ongoing Iowa State Fair."

August 12, 2013

The Godfather said...: Sounds good but messy.; 8/12/13, 4:32 PM
AaronS said...: Are those locally-sourced and sustainable sticks?; 8/12/13, 4:46 PM
MadisonMan said...: Anything you can do, I can do better.

Pretty easy to say that when you're from Wisconsin and you're talking to someone from Iowa.; 8/12/13, 4:59 PM
ngtrains said...: Our paper published a calorie count for 5 items from turkey legs to funnel cakes. The numbers were large.

How do they do gravy on a stick?; 8/12/13, 6:06 PM
Anonymous said...: Sounds like the word "food" is being used very loosely.; 8/12/13, 10:57 PM
RiverRat said...: Tree killers, all!; 8/13/13, 1:35 AM
Clyde said...: You would think that it was sticks that were being subsidized in Iowa rather than corn ethanol!; 8/13/13, 6:50 AM
Unknown said...: Surprised there's no David Foster Wallace tag here.; 8/13/13, 7:22 AM
Tibore said...: The shocking thing is their creation of Deep Fried Butter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/15/dining/at-the-iowa-state-fair-deep-fried-butter-on-a-stick.html

To be clear, the article from last year shows that the whole centering on butter is a marketing gimmick: It is indeed a stick of butter at heart. But it's dipped in a sweet batter, then fried, so the effect is really a fried, sweet-tasting funnel-cake-like concoction that's super buttery in the middle.

But still... talk about rich. I'm fighting off a diabetic coma just thinking about it.; 8/13/13, 8:45 AM