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My mom I guess was force fed vegetables when she was little, and the result was that I rarely ever had vegetables with meals growing up. I LOVE vegetables, and my mom used to make chicken pot pie JUST for me. The reason she didn't like chicken pot pie was it had too many vegetables in it, haha. I always loved it whenever my mom made any vegetables, but it was really rare to eat anything vegetable-y other than a salad.
Vegetables are quite good, and I like a lot of vegetables in my meal, but they also have to be balanced out with some meat. Vegan meals make me a sad omnivore.
If I go to a grocery store and get some canned green beans, bring them home, microwave them, I can eat and enjoy them as long as they are warm. Not so good cold. Yet I've been at a wedding where I was given a plate of fancier food that included what looked to be fresher green beans with some seasoning on them. I took one bite and came precariously close to having a plate full of vomit. Food adventures tend to go badly for me.
I'm hardly much of a carnivore, but I'd make a terrible vegan.
So, pretty much, the State Fair of Texas is the worst (or best?) possible place imaginable to eat anything. It wasn't always like it is now, but in the past few years, holy balls, they've really tried to outdo themselves with how much stuff they can fry. I remember mentioning here before about how I've tried some pretty repulsive foods the Texas State Fair has offered to me, and some of them I have actually really enjoyed. This year I was wondering what fried food they were showcasing, and I think this one trumps all the rest.....
I went to the fair this weekend, and while I gotta say, I was TEMPTED to try it (since it's the fair and the fair is full of awesomely disgusting food), but I couldn't make myself spend money on something so... gross. I've tried fried Snickers, I've tried fried Peanut Butter Jelly and Banana Sandwich, I've tried fried Coke... but I just can't do it.
Btw, if you click on the article, I wanted to try those fried peanut butter cup macaroons, but I didn't find any The green goblins were pretty tasty though.
Hahaha as soon as you said deep fried coke I thought "Hey I think I tried that once at the fair"
It was GROSS. I think the Texas State Fair deep fries just about anything imaginable. And then some. Seriously! I've tried a few of them, just for kicks... best thing I've ever had was the fried Snickers bar, that was awesome. This past year all I tried was the fried peanut butter and banana sandwich, and that was too gross to finish.
By the way, fried coke was just like a ball of batter that had coke poured on it with powdered sugar sprinkled on top. It did not taste like coke, it tasted like... bad.
On an unrelated note, isn't Texas supposed to be one of the fattest states in America?
BEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So, I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but after my minor success with Mr. Beer I started making beer the right way. I just bottled a dunkelweizen and started an oatmeal stout last week. The dunkelweizen I am drinking now and it is delicious, and I'm really excited about the oatmeal stout.
Oatmeal stout ingredients:
Dunkelweizen ready to be bottled:
Bottler:
BEER!:
A hungry-man is a standard food item at every deli in NY. It has 3-6 eggs (the cheap places only have 3), bacon, sausage, ham, cheese and usually home fries. The deli on my street is slightly cheap, so they do not include any potatoes.
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I'm hardly much of a carnivore, but I'd make a terrible vegan.
Fried butter.
Yes, really. Article here.
I went to the fair this weekend, and while I gotta say, I was TEMPTED to try it (since it's the fair and the fair is full of awesomely disgusting food), but I couldn't make myself spend money on something so... gross. I've tried fried Snickers, I've tried fried Peanut Butter Jelly and Banana Sandwich, I've tried fried Coke... but I just can't do it.
Btw, if you click on the article, I wanted to try those fried peanut butter cup macaroons, but I didn't find any
Fried snickers though--- holy shit. That stuff is amazing. Imagine an eclair with melted snickers filling. With powdered sugar on top.
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So, I don't know if I ever mentioned it, but after my minor success with Mr. Beer I started making beer the right way. I just bottled a dunkelweizen and started an oatmeal stout last week. The dunkelweizen I am drinking now and it is delicious, and I'm really excited about the oatmeal stout.
Oatmeal stout ingredients:
Dunkelweizen ready to be bottled:
Bottler:
BEER!:
Most delis put potatoes in, too. But this is good enough.