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Newest heart-unfriendly fair food: fried butter on a stick

It was inevitable. Everything else has been deep-friend — Kool-Aid balls, anyone? — so why not butter?

A snack seemingly inspired by the Paula Deens of the world is now available at the Iowa State Fair.

This is more than just a deep-fried butter ball. This is a quarter-pound stick of butter, impaled on a stick.

Vendor Larry Fyfe dips the butter bricks into a cinnamon and honey batter, deep-fries it, and then coats each one in a sugary glaze. (As nutritionists everywhere start crying.)

KCCI’s Eric Hanson reports on the cholesterol-packed fare:


How does it taste?

“It wasn’t as gross-tasting as I expected,” Hanson told MSNBC’s Bites. “I envisioned ‘raw’ butter, but it really tasted like really buttery and really messy French toast.”

No, the sweet treat wasn’t created to kill. Fyfe created the deep-fried butter option in celebration of the 100th anniversary of the Butter Cow, a life-sized butter sculpture made for the Iowa State Fair every year.

A deep-fried stick of butter costs $4. Would you dare to indulge in the rich, heart-unfriendly treat?

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