Plan B Forum

(Not current news, but I don't remember Gob posting this)

Doughnut Burger? New Food at State Fairs Sounds Yummy but Deadly

By Aina Hunter

(CBS) What do you call a bacon cheeseburger served not on a bun but between two Krispy Kreme doughnuts?

A slice of heaven - or a coronary sandwich?



This popular item at the Indiana state fair was cooked up by Dennis Reas, 53, of the southern Indiana city of Corydon.

The Reas family are the same folks behind chocolate-covered bacon and deep-fried butter, according to the Indianapolis Star.

They sell innovative food at fairs around the country, but it should be noted that they can't lay claim to the Doughnut Burger - it's been around awhile, as reported by CBS News.

If you happen to be in the Indianapolis area, there's still more than a week left of the state fair to go, so you can still give the Doughnut Burger a try.

But know that it will take a lot of running, or biking, or whatever your sport of choice, to burn off those calories.

What sort of nutritional hit will you take from downing a Doughnut Burger?

We don't have an official count from the Reas family, but based on the ingredients we estimate the damage at approximately 844 calories and 56 grams of fat. Hope you don't plan on eating again until tomorrow, because that's 86 percent of your daily fat intake.

If the Doughnut Burger isn't your thing, there are many other fat and calorie bombs at the Indiana state fair, the paper reports. There's deep-fried sushi, deep-fried dill pickles, deep-fried candy bars, chocolate-covered popcorn balls, and root-beer marinated ribs.

And then there's a pork patty covered with pulled pork on a bun.

They call that the Garbage Burger.

source

Joe Guy wrote:
The Reas family are the same folks behind chocolate-covered bacon and deep-fried butter, according to the Indianapolis Star.

Words fail me...

How can you deep fry butter?

The Hen wrote:How can you deep fry butter?

Move over, Twinkies: Deep-fried butter is here

Inventor of fried Coke and fried cookie dough is ‘back with a vengeance’
Kevin Brown / State Fair of Texas

Abel Gonzales Jr. says his deep-fried butter invention tastes like “a mix between a biscuit or a croissant that is just stuffed to the gills with butter on the inside.”

By Laura T. Coffey
TODAY.com contributor

Who among us hasn’t simultaneously marveled and shuddered over accounts of deep-fried Twinkies? Deep-fried Oreos? Deep-fried bacon?

Well, brace yourself, because a new deep-fried item has been invented that’s so bold, so audacious, so brazen, it’s bound to take your breath away. The invention is none other than:

Deep-fried butter.



That’s right. This artery-clogging, heart-stopping dish is among eight new deep-fried concoctions that will be unveiled to the public at the State Fair of Texas in Dallas later this month. Each year, fair concessionaires try to outdo themselves by dreaming up recipes that could send you racing to your cardiologist if they became regular staples of your diet. The friendly competition has become so intense that fair officials have dubbed the fairgrounds the “Fried Food Capital of Texas.”

Some foodies got patriotic at the third annual Jell-O Mold Competition in New York, where they showcased outrageous gelatin masterpieces.

This year’s fried butter entry is the brainchild of 39-year-old Dallas resident Abel Gonzales Jr., winner of past state fair competitions for his Texas Fried Cookie Dough, Fried Peanut Butter, Jelly and Banana Sandwich and Fried Coke recipes.

(That’s right. Fried Coke.)

To make fried butter, the butter itself needs to have an outer coating, or shell, if you will — something that can withstand the bubbling cauldron of the deep fryer.

“I mean, butter by itself does not taste good,” Gonzales said. “Nobody just grabs a stick of butter and eats it. That would be gross.”

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. The butter-laden dough balls are then dropped into the deep fryer.

For purists who just want the unadulterated taste of butter, Gonzales serves up plain-butter versions of his creation. For others who want a little more pizzazz, he offers three additional versions with flavored butters: garlic, grape or cherry.

“When you taste it, it really does taste like a hot roll with butter,” said Sue Gooding, spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas. “It tastes great.”

“It’s like a mix between a biscuit or a croissant that is just stuffed to the gills with butter on the inside,” Gonzales said. “I think that’s the best way to describe it.”

An order of fried butter will get you three or four pieces of piping-hot dough in a little cardboard boat.

“Any more than that and I think it would be a little bit too much,” Gonzales said. “A little bit too rich.”

Pork chips and pecan pies
Other deep-fried creations to be showcased at this year’s state fair include:

Green Goblins: Cherry peppers stuffed with spicy shredded chicken and guacamole, battered, deep-fried and topped with queso.

Twisted Yam on a Stick: A spiral-cut sweet potato, fried on a skewer, then rolled in butter and dusted with cinnamon and sugar.

Fernie’s Deep Fried Peaches & Cream: Served with a side of vanilla buttercream icing for dipping.

Texas Fried Pecan Pie: A mini-pecan pie battered, deep fried and served with caramel sauce, whipping cream and chopped candied pecans.

Country Fried Pork Chips: Battered, thin-sliced pork loin deep fried and served with sides of ketchup or cream gravy.

Sweet Jalapeno Corn Dog Shrimp: Shrimp on a stick, coated with a sweet and spicy cornmeal batter, deep fried and served with a spicy glaze.

Fried Peanut Butter Cup Macaroon: A peanut butter cup wrapped inside a coconut macaroon, fried and then dusted with powdered sugar.

On Labor Day, all eight creations were judged in the categories of Best Taste and Most Creative. Gonzales bagged a trophy for Most Creative for deep-fried butter, and Christi Erpillo won the Best Taste award for her peaches-and-cream creation.

source

AaggaGGhGhghGhGhghhhh.

The doughnut burger sounds a little sweet...

I'd prefer the burger between two slices of pizza:

777-Pound Burger At Alameda County Fair



A World Record

I believe they're called 'gut-bombs'; you know- cholesterol-laden cardiac arrests inna bun, with a side order of fries and a coke?

I see the image Nazis have been hard at work....

Those bastards never rest....

Green Goblins: Cherry peppers stuffed with spicy shredded chicken and guacamole, battered, deep-fried and topped with queso.

Twisted Yam on a Stick: A spiral-cut sweet potato, fried on a skewer, then rolled in butter and dusted with cinnamon and sugar.

Texas Fried Pecan Pie: A mini-pecan pie battered, deep fried and served with caramel sauce, whipping cream and chopped candied pecans.

Country Fried Pork Chips: Battered, thin-sliced pork loin deep fried and served with sides of ketchup or cream gravy.

Sweet Jalapeno Corn Dog Shrimp: Shrimp on a stick, coated with a sweet and spicy cornmeal batter, deep fried and served with a spicy glaze.

Fried Peanut Butter Cup Macaroon: A peanut butter cup wrapped inside a coconut macaroon, fried and then dusted with powdered sugar.


OMG is it wrong I want one of each!!

SisterMaryFellatio wrote: "...

Sweet Jalapeno Corn Dog Shrimp: Shrimp on a stick, coated with a sweet and spicy cornmeal batter, deep fried and served with a spicy glaze.
... "

Shrimp is inedibly nasty all by itself.

Ever since production was taken over by unhygenic shrimp farms in SE asia.

Never eat it again. Never.

Like eating sewer outfall. Foul.

yrs,
rubato

Its been deep fried....no more germies!!


Now gimme the shrimp!


That is all.