# Deep fried butter **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 6, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341 "2006-11-06T20:08:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![indierock82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@indierock82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indierock82)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/1 "2006-11-06T20:08:06Z")
My sister was in the US recently with her family and while there they visited a fair. I will never forget what she told me about that fair. Apparently they were sticking little holding-sticks into bars of butter and then rolling them in some sort of batter. Upon doing this, they then dipped them in oil to get them crispy. I won’t even go into the health-aspect of this food, but WHY would someone eat BUTTER?! Has anyone here tried? ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/2 "2006-11-06T20:11:16Z")
[QUOTE=indierock82] My sister was in the US recently with her family and while there they visited a fair. I will never forget what she told me about that fair. Apparently they were sticking little holding-sticks into bars of butter and then rolling them in some sort of batter. Upon doing this, they then dipped them in oil to get them crispy. I won’t even go into the health-aspect of this food, but WHY would someone eat BUTTER?! Has anyone here tried? [/QUOTE] Are you sure it was butter? I’ve seen them deep fry Snickers and Milky Way bars, bananas, Oreo cookies, ice cream, Twinkees, cheese, and other assorted items, but never just plain sticks of butter. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/3 "2006-11-06T20:13:56Z")
Sounds about right for the Minnesota State Fair. They take their grease-eating pretty seriously in these parts. ---
**Author:** ![Exapno\_Mapcase](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/exapno_mapcase/32/1051_2.png) [@Exapno\_Mapcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Exapno_Mapcase)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/4 "2006-11-06T22:02:08Z")
I don’t get any hits entering deep fried butter into Google, but on [this page](http://main.dayaftertom.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=PNphpBB2&file=viewtopic&t=3069) there’s a joke I don’t get about a Food Network show, involving deep fried butter balls. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/5 "2006-11-06T22:28:59Z")
[QUOTE=indierock82] My sister was in the US recently with her family and while there they visited a fair. I will never forget what she told me about that fair. Apparently they were sticking little holding-sticks into bars of butter and then rolling them in some sort of batter. Upon doing this, they then dipped them in oil to get them crispy. I won’t even go into the health-aspect of this food, but WHY would someone eat BUTTER?! Has anyone here tried? [/QUOTE] perhaps these holding sticks were hotdogs, the batter a corn meal and the result a corndog? ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/6 "2006-11-06T22:30:01Z")
[QUOTE=indierock82] My sister was in the US recently with her family and while there they visited a fair. I will never forget what she told me about that fair. Apparently they were sticking little holding-sticks into bars of butter and then rolling them in some sort of batter. Upon doing this, they then dipped them in oil to get them crispy. I won’t even go into the health-aspect of this food, but WHY would someone eat BUTTER?! Has anyone here tried? [/QUOTE] on second thought, maybe the butter was bananas. I don’t know you’re sister, but my bs meter is pinging. ---
**Author:** ![indierock82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@indierock82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indierock82)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/7 "2006-11-06T22:38:50Z")
No, no I swear this is true… My sister’s lived in the US for 5-6 years, married an american etc. So youd think she’s well versed on the likes of deepfried snickers, mars, bananas and corndogs etc. She claims it was a stick of butter… I think they were in Indiana at the time… \<== if that helps at all 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Guinastasia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guinastasia/32/5751_2.png) [@Guinastasia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guinastasia)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/8 "2006-11-06T22:40:58Z")
I would think that the buttersticks would be hard to get batter, unless they were chilled prior, and even then, once you dip them in the oil, they’d melt into globs? Still, I wouldn’t put it past some people to actually TRY this. :eek: (Where the hell is that puking smiley when you need it?) ---
**Author:** ![indierock82](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/f14d63/32.png) [@indierock82](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/indierock82)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/9 "2006-11-06T22:49:12Z")
Well, it’s like deepfrying icecream. You’d think it inconceivable, yet it can be done… Like you said, I think they’d have to chill the butter sticks prior to deep frying. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/10 "2006-11-06T23:01:24Z")
[QUOTE=indierock82] Well, it’s like deepfrying icecream. You’d think it inconceivable, yet it can be done… Like you said, I think they’d have to chill the butter sticks prior to deep frying. [/QUOTE] Many many people eat ice cream by the bowl full. Butter, not so much. I don;t doubt it can be done, but why? ---
**Author:** ![Smeghead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f1d935/32.png) [@Smeghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Smeghead)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/11 "2006-11-06T23:27:56Z")
That sounds to me like a “let’s make the gullible foreigner believe Americans are THAT disgusting” type joke. ---
**Author:** ![DSYoungEsq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/c6cbf5/32.png) [@DSYoungEsq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSYoungEsq)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2006, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/12 "2006-11-06T23:53:41Z")
Deep fried ice cream is quite delicious; I’ve eaten it at a local Mexican restaurant a lot. Deep fried sweet butter would be tasty. Butter itself is tasty; that’s why we put it all over bread and mashed taters… ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/13 "2006-11-07T00:07:07Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Deep fried ice cream is quite delicious; I’ve eaten it at a local Mexican restaurant a lot. Deep fried sweet butter would be tasty. Butter itself is tasty; that’s why we put it all over bread and mashed taters… [/QUOTE] by the pound per serving? I’d like to be your cardiologist. EHll, this has been fodder for Simpsons jokes - Homer wrapping a waffle in butter in _Homer the Heretic_ ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/14 "2006-11-07T00:08:10Z")
[QUOTE=DSYoungEsq] Deep fried ice cream is quite delicious; I’ve eaten it at a local Mexican restaurant a lot. Deep fried sweet butter would be tasty. Butter itself is tasty; that’s why we put it all over bread and mashed taters… [/QUOTE] sorry fior the double post, but do you eat sweet butter by the bowl full? ---
**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/15 "2006-11-07T00:13:12Z")
I’ve had batter-fried cheese sticks at a state fair, and before it is fried, the cheese looks very much like a stick of butter. ---
**Author:** ![whole\_bean](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/96bed5/32.png) [@whole\_bean](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/whole_bean)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/16 "2006-11-07T00:14:26Z")
[QUOTE=pinkfreud] I’ve had batter-fried cheese sticks at a state fair, and before it is fried, the cheese looks very much like a stick of butter. [/QUOTE] this has to be it. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/17 "2006-11-07T00:50:37Z")
Look people, if we can put a man on the moon, we can deep-fry butter. ---
**Author:** ![lissener](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lissener/32/6139_2.png) [@lissener](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lissener)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/18 "2006-11-07T01:32:24Z")
Someone was pulling your sister’s leg. I come from a family with a tragic secret: we’re butter addicts. We won’t marry into margarine families. My mother goes through probably a pound of butter a week, and only through the greatest effort and poverty do I manage to keep my consumption below her levels. I don’t spread butter; I put quarter-inch slices of it on Danishes. I use an entire stick of butter for a one-person recipe of mashed potatos. So if there’s anyone in the world capable of eating a stick of fried butter, it would be me. And the thought makes me slightly nauseated. So, sorry indierock82, but I promise you that your sister is either having her leg pulled, or she’s pulling yours. ---
**Author:** ![jnglmassiv](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f07891/32.png) [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/19 "2006-11-07T01:39:20Z")
Were they the standard quarter-pound packaged sticks? I could see maybe little sweetened and salted one or two ounce portions. ---
**Author:** ![Cisco](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ccd318/32.png) [@Cisco](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cisco)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2006, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341/20 "2006-11-07T01:50:32Z")
I’m sure she misindentified cheese as butter. I’ve had a lot of European friends come over here and not be able to grasp the concept of some of our cheeses. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/deep-fried-butter/379341.md?page=2)