29th
Shitty fried fair food is a great thing. Wondrous even. But when you are filling a ravioli with Guinness and dunking it in oil to produce a ball of beer soaked dough, that’s too much. Deep fried bacon makes sense, as does chocolate covered bacon. The deep fried Twinkie or Mars bar? Top shelf. But this is bumpkin baboonery at it’s worst. Why not fry a stick of butter that will run out of it’s skin a molten volcanic mess or maybe just start handing out shots of oil straight from the fryer? No one is under the impression they’ll go to their fair and get healthy food, but I do expect to see some thought put into the gut busting crap I’ll eat, not just a half cocked, backwoods assumption that because people like beer and deep fried things that the two should co-mingle. Keep frying food, carnies. It’s what makes the fair worth attending. Just make it good food.
If we’re going to restore honor to America, fair food might be a good place to start.
