Just a reminder: Fifi Lapin is the cutest thing E.V.E.R.
As if fried Twinkies weren't bad enough, the Lone Star State has now given the world fried butter.
On a fine afternoon at the Texas State Fair, a ringmaster encouraged a gaggle of children to flap their arms like butterfly wings. “What could possibly go wrong on a day as beautiful as today?” he asked. But a hundred yards away, something had gone quite wrong. People were queuing for an unusual delicacy: balls of butter, dipped in dough and cooked in a vat of boiling oil. Fried butter, in other words. The balls were dusted with a thin coat of powdered sugar. When bitten, they collapsed with an unctuous squelch...Fried butter is a new development. At the beginning of the fair it won an award for creativity. The inventor, Abel Gonzales, won the same award in 2006 for a different recipe—fried Coke. - The Economist
Maybe eating one of these should qualify as a preexisting condition...
While browsing through an online article about day trips outside of the City, I came across this article: 13 of the Coolest Art Installations in the History of Burning Man. Some pretty amazing stuff.