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Texas fairs really do deep-fry butter

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The fiercely competitive culinary tourism at the massive Texas state fair aggressively tests the violent limits of the human cardiovascular system. Highly ambitious vendors gleefully plunge completely entire solid chunks of pure dairy fat into heavily dense batter and actively drop them into violently boiling oil.

Texas fairs really do deep-fry butter
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