Saturday morning, straightening up the house with the TV tuned to the Travel Channel, there’s a special on deep fried foods playing. So, spotlighting our schizophrenic culture which frets endlessly about obesity, high cholesterol and heart disease but nevertheless pushes toxic foodstuffs from multiple angles, I thought I would share the fruits of three separate deep-frying establishments with you–

1.) Sodolak’s Country Inn in Snook, Texas– identified on its front only by bold white letters that read STEAK HOUSE–specializes in Chicken Fried Bacon, served with classic southern milk gravy:

2.) Dyer’s Burgers, on historic Beale Street in Memphis, Tennessee.  Home of  artery-clogging burgers deep-fried in what I will call “Millenium Grease.” It’s a point of pride with Dyer’s, as their homepage relates, that they haven’t changed their grease since the place first opened in 1912. They simply strain it daily. As an employee proudly noted on the Travel Channel program, there are grease molecules still circulating in their fryer that “were there when Woodrow Wilson was President.”

We’ve all heard about the carcinogenic properties of fried foods. I wonder whether never changing your grease exacerbates that? It might be interesting to see an analysis of their millenial hellbroth.

3.) Rutt’s Hut, Clifton, New Jersey. Specializing in deep fried hotdogs.

…and now it shines like a disco ball! Tee-hee!

Start at 2:35 – the rest is just dogshit.

Oh, wait. It’s all dogshit.

Thanks to Sweeneyfinger for sending this along–

VH1 Reality Show Bus Crashes In California Causing Major Slut Spill

Chuck Norris, eat your heart out. This dude is so macho, he’s half penis.

Funny the things your eye will pick out  as you’re reading the news at 6:05 am on a Sunday morning (I have a cold, and felt so crappy in bed that I got up to have a hot bevvie to soothe my raw throat).

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bacon jam

It’s bacon time, folks!

Order it from skillet street food.

In yesterday’s article “Bacon Gets its Just Desserts,” NPRs Susan Russo discusses how bacon is the latest rage in…well, just about everything edible…and most recently, confections such as Chocolate-Bacon-Peanut Bark, Maple-Apple-Bacon Cake With Maple Glaze, Chocolate Chip-Bacon-Pecan Cookies (thin and thick variations), and Peanut Butter-Maple Bacon Fudge.

Creative cooking? Gluttonous American excess? You decide.

Bellevue residents blast new bikini espresso stand

The bikini baristas made their Bellevue debut in a Chevron parking lot Saturday. By Monday, residents had coordinated a letter-writing campaign to Chevron and organized to speak to the Bellevue City Council at a meeting tonight about it, and stations including KING-TV and KOMO-TV had aired stories about its appearance.

The sign for Knotty Bodies Espresso went up last Thursday at the intersection of Northeast Eighth Street and 164th Avenue Northeast, said resident Nick Bean, who took pictures of the bright-red hut and emailed them to other residents.

“I was incredulous,” he said….

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Here’s my reply to all the furor:

Via emergencyfan2000’s photostream–

Note label on the table: “Donner Family Picnic.”

I considered doing a Photoslop with a bipedal wild boar carrying this tray, in parody of the ancient Yuletide tradition. Upon reflection, it seemed like too much work, but had I done it, I would have called it, simply, “Bringing in the Man’s Head.”