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Deep-Fried Butter Update


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Deep-Fried Butter. Photo: State Fair of Texas
Behold the deep-fried butter!

Last week, Slashfood reported that Abel Gonzales planned to best his fried-food record at the State Fair of Texas with a concoction that shuddered even those with the most hardened of arteries -- Deep-Fried Butter.

The dish -- which comes in four flavors: original, garlic, cherry and grape -- took top honors on Monday when fair officials gave it the Most Creative nod in the Big Tex Choice Awards.

"It's similar to having a dinner roll with a lot of butter," Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the fair, told us last week. "It's very good."
Slashfood's wine expert Gretchen Roberts suggests pairing it with a big, buttery Chardonnay or the driest sparkling wine you can find.

But would you try it? Now that you've seen it, let us know in the comments below the state fair butter sculpture gallery!

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Butter Sculptures
A butter sculpture of golfer Tiger Woods made by Norma "Duffy" Lyon, on Aug. 9, 2005, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyon, who has carved a life-size dairy cow out of butter at the fair for more than 40 years, has in the past made butter sculptures of actor John Wayne and country singer Garth Brooks.
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Butter Sculptures

    A butter sculpture of golfer Tiger Woods made by Norma "Duffy" Lyon, on Aug. 9, 2005, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyon, who has carved a life-size dairy cow out of butter at the fair for more than 40 years, has in the past made butter sculptures of actor John Wayne and country singer Garth Brooks.

    Charlie Neibergall, AP

    Norma Lyon touches up her butter sculpture of Barack Obama following a town-hall-style meeting by the then presidential candidate at South Tama Middle School on Dec. 27, 2007 in Toledo, Iowa. The bust was made from 23 pounds of butter. The stop was part of a scheduled five-city campaign swing in the central part of the state in an attempt to gather last-minute support before the Jan. 3 caucus.

    Scott Olson, Getty Images

    A sculpture of Wilber and Orville Wright, carved out of butter, stands on display at the Ohio State Fair on July 31, 2003, in Columbus, Ohio. The sculpture is part of the butter cow exhibit in honor of the 100th anniversary of the Wright brothers' first flight.

    Terry Gilliam, AP

    Sculptor Norma Duffy Lyon sitting among figures at head of life-size butter sculpture rendering of "The Last Supper."

    Layne Kennedy, Time & Life Pictures/Getty Image

    A butter sculpture of an Amish man selling vegetables to a woman and her son is unveiled at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., on Jan. 4, 2001. The sculpture was crafted of 750 pounds of donated butter and includes vegetables made of butter and colored their respective colors. It pays tribute to Pennsylvania produce.

    Paul Vathis, AP

    A section of the 2009 Butter Sculpture is seen at the 93rd annual Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., on Jan. 8, 2009. This year's sculpture is dedicated to the Pennsylvania National Guard and depicts a Guardsman saying goodbye to his family.

    Carolyn Kaster, AP

    School children look at the 2008 Pennsylvania Farm Show's official butter sculpture at the Pennsylvania Farm Show Complex and Expo Center on Jan. 3, 2008, in Harrisburg, Pa. The sculpture is made of 900 ponds of butter and is of three children and a cow waiting to board a school bus.

    Carolyn Kaster, AP

    The "Butter Cow" display is viewed at the Illinois State Fair in Springfield, Ill., on Aug.15, 2008. It is a pastoral scene that includes a butter cow, a butter calf, a trio of butter skunks, a butter tree, a butter log, a butter bird and butter snakes. Sculptor Sharon BuMann, who is from New York made the display which uses nearly 800 pounds of unsalted butter.

    Seth Perlman, AP

    Pennsylvania Dairy Princess Rhonda Kieklak of Wattsburg, Pa., stands behind a butter sculpture depicting former President Dwight Eisenhower feeding an Angus calf after unveiling at the Pennsylvania Farm Show in Harrisburg, Pa., on Jan. 4, 1996. The sculpture was carved from 800 pounds of butter.

    Paul Vathis, AP

    Norma "Duffy" Lyon works on a Harley-Davidson V-Rod motorcycle made of butter on Aug. 6, 2003, at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines, Iowa. Lyon, who has carved a life-size diary cow out of butter at the fair for more than 40 years, is creating the full-scale motorcyle to celebrate Harley-Davidson's 100th anniversary.

    Charlie Neibergall, AP



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