Deeply Fried Brains Developed this Menu

Aug. 10, 2010 - PRLog -- If the success of Wisconsin’s State Fair is linked to the deep fryer, it will be a banner year!
    Imagine there’s a gastronomical devil at work in the kitchen. What might he concoct for maximum damage to public health? Remember, right now 61.5% of Wisconsin adults are either obese or overweight, according to a 2009 report from the Kaiser Family Foundation. How much more might it take to put us all over the edge?
    Back to the devil, though. Let’s just pick a few entrees from the State Fair menu this year. How about a cheeseburger? But not just any cheeseburger. Let’s put that slab of beef between two Krispy Kreme donuts!
    You don’t feel like a donut burger? Fear not, how about some deep fried ravioli, deep fried cheese steak or deep fried crab cakes?
     Fine—that stuff doesn’t make you drool. Then, how about something simpler like deep fried PB & J sandwiches? Or, what about deep-fried cream cheese with bacon, or simply deep fried cream cheese?
    Now we need a little something on the side. Since there are no deep fried vegetables, get ready for some bacon-wrapped water chestnuts or chocolate covered bacon.
    After you choke down that delightful dinner, it’s time for dessert! Let’s go with deep fried Oreo cookies or a deep fried Snickers Bar. Or both! A more sophisticated palate, say you? Well then, what could be finer than a slab of deep fried cheesecake?
    All of these menu items are real. Since it’s too hard to believe, click this State Fair link and read for yourself:

http://www.wistatefair.com/10_web/food/food_stick.html

    About the only thing they are not tossing in the fryer down at the State Fair are those delicious cream puffs. But fear not, there’s always next year.

    Steve Busalacchi is a former public radio medical reporter and author of White Coat Wisdom: Extraordinary doctors talk about what they do, how they got there and why medicine is so much more than a job. See http://www.whitecoatwisdom.com