This food is TEXAS good!

The Texas State Fair is (disputedly) the birthplace of the corndog. It was a radical idea at the time - batter up a hotdog and then deep fry it to a golden brown, but it's gained widespread popularity in the over sixty years since it was introduced. Well it looks like we have some new contenders for the deep fried crown. In addition to the deep fried Twinkies, Snickers bars, and Oreos of late, this year's State Fair showed the addition of deep fried latte, fried banana pudding, fried peach cobbler, fried burritos, fried sweet potato pie, and my personal favorite: fried cheesecake. But the winner of innovative new food entry at the Fair this year went to the man who created...are you ready...deep fried COKE! Seriously, who thinks to fry a soft drink? The idea is so insane that it's actually sort of awesome. I guess the guy who did it flavors some sort of dough with coke syrup, fries it, then drizzles more coke syrup on top, followed by whipped cream and a cherry. I get hungry just writing about it. Let's be honest with each other - when you hear of something like this, does the idea of Texas seceding sound so bad?

I also have to mention something that Tricia and I have found funny. This involves the practice of substituting the word "Texas" in place of the words "super", "huge", "awesome", or "cool". Let me give you an example. If you go to a fast-food restaurant here, you don't ask them to "super-size" your order; you ask them to "Texas-size" whatever you're getting. Or if you go to buy a pickup truck and want the biggest one on the lot you ask for the "Texas Edition" (unless you're buying Dodge, then it's the "Lone-Star Edition".) Just for fun, I'm going to start adopting this convention. So if you call (like you people ever do) and we've had a good day, you can expect to hear that we've had a really Texas day. Or if the kids aren't very good in church, you'll hear that they were soooo not Texas in Primary today. Get it? Wow, this entry is pretty Texas.