Every year, the state fair try to up the ante. And this year, a vendor at the Iowa State Fair started offering fried butter. Yes, fried butter.
I knew I had to try it.
I love trying strange food items, like the Mc1035.
There was only a small sign advertising the fried butter but a large line of people waiting for it when I showed up Thursday, the first day of the Iowa State Fair.
It appeared to be about a stick or so of butter, heavily battered in a cinnamon/sugar mixture, with frosting of some sort on the top:
Of course, since it was hot and fried, the butter melted and ran out. So it was like eating the fried outside of a food that was missing it's insides.
My friend Nicole got delicious cheese curds--for some reason she didn't feel like eating a stick of butter.
But I forced her to try the fried butter, too.
We only ate about four bites of it because it was really...odd. I can't say I'd get it again. But the shell was tasty and I do love butter. It wasn't nearly as buttery as you would expect, the sweet batter really overpowered the butter. But I'm glad I got it--now I can say I've eaten fried butter!
I've tried this at the Coastal Carolina Fair. It was a smaller chunk and the batter was plain. Most of the center had melted down, but, like you, HAD to at least TRY it....
ReplyDeleteAww, I <3 the Iowa State Fair, at least I got to go last year. Texas is probably the only other fair that could compete with it but Iowa's food is still way better. I did try a fried snickers completely expecting it to be disgusting and sadly, it was really good! (I say sadly because then I ate the whole thing).
ReplyDeleteThey had fried coke in TX. It looked rather gross too, just chunks of fried dough soaked in coke syrup, meh.