Where I or my sister live right now is impertinent (Stockholm and Hong Kong, if you must know :p). I wrote in the first post that it was while she was IN the US when she saw this stall that made deepfried butter sticks. It was even in the news at some point. Now, I don’t have any tangible evidence to this (she did not tape the newscast) aside from the fact that she swears that this is true.
Are you sure that the coke reference wasn’t about the white powder they sprinkle on the funnel cake?
Note that it now appears that butter is better for you than most classic margarines.
One of my Ex’s would go through an entire cube of butter per meal.
No, we had it here - I was gone but my boyfriend saw it on the news. They fry Coke syrup, not the Coke you drink after it’s been carbonated.
I have no problem taking your sister’s word for it - just wanted to eliminate the chance of a misunderstanding.
I do have a problem with the concept of actually eating it. With the right foods, I could go through a stick of butter in one meal. But eating it straight with just a handful of fried batter around it? Even as a butter lover, I can’t say that sounds appealing. Wow.
Zsofia, you’ve been whooshed.
Deep fried bread and butter pickle chips (the little round cross section pickles) are one of my favorites. Especially when you have a garlic-parmesan dipping sauce.
And my girlfriend said they’d be nasty. Ha! Next up-fried circus peanuts. :eek:
Oh the vanity search…how it burns! 
As an expert, let me just say deep fried anything is damn good!
I’ve always appreciated how you made you username look so crispy. It looks delicious!
[hijack]6 metions of Russia and not a single Yakov Smirnov reference. That’s gotta be a record.[/hijack]
My brother and I were once sitting around trying to come up with the most disgusting food imaginable. He won with “squeeze baloney”. However, “deep-fried circus peanut” is worse! I feel dirty just for imagining it.
If it had been in the news, it would most likely be googleable. Trust me: somewhere between what your sister saw and your hearing about it, some small misunderstanding crept in. Unless someone was making them as a publicity stunt, which I grant is possible. But I can assure you that deep-fried butter sticks sound as disgusting to Americans as they do to you.
You put butter on danishes? I must admit I’ve never heard of such a thing.
Butter in Maryland is gross. I don’t know what they feed the cows here, but it makes the butter not nice like it is at home.
You were saying?
::wiping a tear from his eye::
Someone finally understands…
Ah, as I thought. You can deep fry ANYTHING and enjoy it. 
If you read the recipe you cited, you’ll see that it’s not unadulterated butter on a stick. Which I still maintain, if it were ever made in any fair in Indiana, was done so strictly as a publicity stunt, and not for actual consumption.
Leave it to Paula Deen to be the one who actually pulled it off.
In Russia, butter fries you! 
That’s fried cheese. Certainly not butter on a stick.