One last Texas tidbit before I head north. The newspaper today had an article about the food you can get at the State Fair. Now fairs in the Midwest are famous for food-on-a-stick. Things like frozen-cheesecake-on-a-stick or pork-chop-on-a-stick. Minnesota boasts that you can get 59 kinds of food on a stick at their Fair. Well, boast may not be the right word. Maybe they just admit it, sheepishly. (Mutton on a stick? Or is that aged shishkabob anyway?)Texas leans toward deep fried anything. The most absurd to me is something called Deep Fried Butter. Butter is whipped, flavored, dipped in batter and then deep fried. That's a picture of it on the side there.
What I want is the Rolaids concession at the State Fair. You could make necklaces or bracelets out of them, and people could wander around nibbling on their antacid jewelry after indulging in deep fried lard bullets.
Not that pork-chop-on-a-stick, which I have had, is a Fiber One product. Maybe you are supposed to eat the stick to help clean all that other stuff out of your system.
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