Because we don't already have enough fried foods..

[Amianthus]

Oct 27, 8:34 AM (ET)
NEW YORK, Oct 26 (Reuters Life!) - A new fast food is making its debut at U.S. fairs this fall -- fried Coke.

Abel Gonzales, 36, a computer analyst from Dallas, tried about 15 different varieties before coming up with his perfect recipe -- a batter mix made with Coca-Cola syrup, a drizzle of strawberry syrup, and some strawberries.

Balls of the batter are then deep-fried, ending up like ping-pong ball sized doughnuts which are then served in a cup, topped with Coca-Cola syrup, whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry on the top.

"It tastes great," said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales' fried Coke made its debut this fall. "It was a huge success."

Gonzales ran two stands at the State Fair of Texas and sold up to 35,000 fried Cokes over 24 days for $4.50 each -- and won a prize for coming up with "most creative" new fair food.

Now other fairs in North Carolina and Arizona are following the trend, and other people are trying to emulate Gonzales' recipe.

Gonzales gave no indication of the calories in his creation and said he would not patent it.

"The best I can hope for is that it's the original and hopefully the best fried Coke out there," he said.

But Gonzales said the success of his fried Coke had inspired him. Next year's fair-goers can look forward to fried Sprite or -- for those watching their weight -- fried diet Coke.

"We are trying to cut a lot of the sugar out of it. It has less calories but it's still very, very sweet," he said.

Ray Crockett, a spokesman for Coca-Cola Co., said: "We're constantly amazed at the creative ways folks find to enjoy their Coke and make it part of celebrations like fairs and festivals. This is one is definitely different!"
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[Xavier_Onassis]

"It tastes great," said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales' fried Coke made its debut this fall. "It was a huge success."


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Is it less filling, too?


It sounds like the ideal thing to eat with a deep-fried battered Mars Bar.

[kimba1]

uhm
vegas sells fried twinkies
I wonder what a fried mars bar taste like?
I live in california
there is no such thing as enough fried food

[Amianthus]

there is no such thing as enough fried food

Go to Wisconsin or Minnesota. Damn near everything is fried.

Deep fried cheese curds are a big thing there. Fat, battered and cooked in fat.

[Brassmask]

My wife makes cakes all the time with box mixes where she just uses a can of diet coke instead of the oil, eggs and water or whatever.

Sometimes you can tell a difference.

[Xavier_Onassis]

From an evolutionary perspective, we humans have not yet adapted to eating fried, or even cooked, foods. When we came down from the trees and lived in the caves, mostly we ate raw foods: bugs, smaller mammals and reptiles, berries and fruits and such. To fry stuff meant we had to learn how to kill large animals, because they are the ones that have enough grease in them to fry stuff in (lard, tallow, etc.) Only much later did we begin squeezing olives for oil, and much later still, we figured out how to get oil from corn, sesame, safflowers and peanuts.

The evolutionary process will not readily adapt us to a diet of fried stuff, because we generally do not have massive coronaries from clogged veins until most of us have reproduced. It will depend, therefore, on those older souls reproducing in their 40's and 50's that will eventually survive the ones that died of said massive infarctions and strokes that will result in our descendents developing a tolerence for the  massive ingestion of fried objects without dying of clogged arteries, just as a tolerence for breathing polluted air from generations of cooking fires has resulted in a few of us not dying premature deaths due to smoking tobacco and other smokeable substances.

[Plane]

From an evolutionary perspective, we humans have not yet adapted to eating fried, or even cooked, foods.

Mutants are us.....


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