h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Okay, so I'm stretching the definition of "Fair." I love Oktoberfests a lot. And you can always count on getting good chocolate cake. And, yes, I know that "German chocolate cake" is not necessarily German in origin (The company that makes the chocolate has the word "German" in its title). You can top it with coconut/pecan frosting, or pineapple, or various other nice toppings.

In heaven there is no beer.
That's why we drink it here.

"Caption this if you dare"

OK! I'll take the bait

Owt that goes down and isn't rejected back up

Everything solid is fried, except the funnel cake, and they've probably figured out how to fry that, too.

I hope they're not using polyunsaturated oils for frying. I've heard of MacDonalds workers whose uniforms get so much oil on them that they combust.

Nowadays, people are taking another look at things like tallow and lard, which can take have a higher burning threshold.

I hate it that my doctor is married to the notion that saturated fat is bad for you.

Ignore them when it comes to lard. Nothing beats lard. My grandmother did wonders with it - especially biscuits.

The only place that deep-fries as many foods as the Appalachians is Scotland.

The first time anybody gave my Mississippi mother a zucchini, she...

...you guessed it: sliced it, breaded it, and fried it. Good that way.

I persuaded my mother to fry squash blossoms one time. I filled them with blue cheese.

I have never eaten a squash blossom. But then, nobody would have let us eat the flowers off squash - they were waiting for the squash.

Or is that not the kind you eat? Srsly, I know nothing about it. Never ate any flowers.

We only ate the male blossoms, which outnumbered the females by quite a lot. Nasturtiums are edible, as are rose petals and rosehips. The Chinese put dried lily buds into hot and sour soup. But don't eat any part of pokeweed unless you have consulted the experts who have posted videos on youtube, and maybe not even then.

Good tips, thank you! I didn't know you could sex squash blossoms. They didn't cover that in my biology minor at university. Now I've learned something.

The female blossom has a little squash behind it on the stem. The male blossom just has a stem

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT2je60YyyE

"Ignore them when it comes to lard"

In my youth! Everything that was fried etc was done in lard
chips (french fries) or whatever!(inc' baking)
To date, nothing HAS never had the same taste

It wasn't that long ago that MacDonald's was scolded for frying everything in tallow.