The Fair's big draw is always that year's Prize Winning new fried food concoction. This morning it was announced that the winners included deep-fried Nutella and deep-fried Thanksgiving dinner.
"Please pass the Thanksgiving dinner balls."
"....fried Thanksgiving dinner....is the stuffing and diced turkey rolled into a ball, mush that together there. Then we'll be dipping it into Southern-style cream corn. We're gonna roll it into a seasoned cornmeal, this gives us the texture we're lookin' for when we fry it."
Well, at least it's efficient. Wham, bam...5 minutes...dinner's done.
I rarely eat fried foods of any kind, but one I do enjoy is an Original Fletcher's Corny Dog sold only at the Texas State Fair. It seems old-man Fletcher invented them back in the 1930's, and his family keeps his creation alive by selling a boat-load of them over the 3-week yearly run of the Fair. I think I read somewhere that the family works those 3 weeks, plus probably another couple of months preparing, and they net $400,000.
The only thing my old-man ever "invented" was updating an old-wives-tale remedy for an ear ache, which actually made my ears worse when I was his guinea pig as a kid. The doctor had to dig the stuff out of my ears, and told dad not to ever do it again. He might have made a good traveling snake-oil salesman, but I don't think it would have been wise for him to ever go back to the same place twice.
Maybe I'll just stick to being a semi-retired, almost legendary king of consulting / CEO for rent. Besides, that 3-week stint at the Fair probably would require I get up way too early. :)
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