Happiness is...

[da]

a warm bed on a blowy snowy night
a warm boyfriend
a warm pup
catchy dance music with a cute puppy

...

fried Mars bars, fried strawberry cheesecake, homemade crab rangoon, beer-batter-fried onion-rings, fried mushrooms and asparagus...

You better believe that's a legitimate segue. Last night (was it only?) amarylliss hosted the Great State of Texas' Fried State Fair US Thanksgiving party. Oh Gods. It was a blast.

the_infamous_j and I bopped to Tara's catchy music (see? segue? right there.) while a certain other guy we know rolled his eyes at us violently. ...I knew it was going to be great when amarylliss, nobody_here, chezmax and I went to the grocery store for "just a few things" and returned with armloads of "hey I bet that'll be tasty fried."

That's a lie, I really knew it would be great when amarylliss offered to host. I have friends with great ideas. Including macman47, who went out and bought a second fondue fountain, and then modded it to turn off the heater so we could have a *ranch dressing fountain*

Oh yes.

I wonder when my coat will stop smelling like the rear end of a McDonalds.

I wonder when I can get more deep-fried cheesecake.

Comments

[swadfather.livejournal.com]

fried Mars bars??

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

yes.

That was one of the "traditional" Texas State Fair offerings. They were tasty; the flavors worked well together.

Oh, and we did fried pickle-spears, but they didn't rate the epic taste of Beerworks'. And I was in too much of a post-fried torpor to experiment with the batter to try and fix that.

[mynatt.livejournal.com]

that sounds like a fun party. i would have made sure to eat beforehand, though.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

I did eat non-fried! Like... a few squares of laughing-cow cheese... a few pickles... Hm.

See, we had to test all the savoury friedstuffs in combinations (hotter oil? with ranch? without ranch?)... all in the name of science. Science!

Then, there were those who went for dinner beforehand- I think they missed out a bit, but they seemed happy with their fried allotment.

[macman47.livejournal.com]

Wish I could have made it but I was teching for Hook

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

*nods* For what it's worth, there was talk of a follow-up here in town... Sometime!

I can get the fountain back to you any time from tomorrow onward- let me know your preference. :)

[tocityguy.livejournal.com]

Did you just use a BLINK TAG?!?!?!?!

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

No, it must be your imagination. ...Honestly, you think LJ would be crass enough to allow the *blink* tag?

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

There we must differ. I thought the twinkie was awful :P

But that's OK. :)

[amarylliss.livejournal.com]

I wonder when I can get more deep-fried cheesecake.

I ask myself this every day.

[da-lj.livejournal.com]

And thanks to this weekend, from now on, I will too.

Especially when I smell my coat.

[amarylliss.livejournal.com]

I'm secretly terrified that all my coats smell like fryer grease but I'm too accustomed to the smell to be able to notice.

Oh, well, at least I get a seat to myself on the bus!

[sulle-stelle.livejournal.com]

That sounds like loads of fun! (Utterly revolting, but tons of fun!) Of course I especially love the ranch dressing fountain.....

Deep-fried Mars bars have their own wikipedia page. Jut about every single candy bar has been deep-fried, I think.

I have heard of restaurants (there's one in NYC, I'm pretty sure) that specialize in deep-fried stuff specifically.