Why Everything Is Bigger In Texas

by Chris Bodenner

They serve deep-fried butter at the state fair. Update: A reader writes:

No!  We do NOT serve deep fried butter at the Texas State Fair.  Not yet, anyway.  The deep fried butter is part of an annual contest held for vendors to come up with a new deep fried specialty, and the butter is only one of the contenders.  That contest has given us fried coke, fried banana splits, and fried guacamole over the years.  Given that the judges almost always pick something that sounds good enough to attract people to buy the product, my money's on the fried peaches and cream to beat out the butter on Monday.

When I lived in Killeen as a little kid, I remember eating a fried Oreo; it was heaven.