Video: Tina’s deep-fried Iowa adventure
posted at 8:50 pm on August 12, 2011 by Ed Morrissey
Guy Benson and Tina Korbe went with me to the Iowa state fair to track the candidates and try to spot any newsworthy engagements, but Guy and I didn’t count on one thing: Tina’s sweet tooth. We had to keep looking through all the deep-fried food stands to find Tina, who seems to have a never-ending capacity for fair food. That’s not actually true, of course; Guy and I goaded Tina into trying deep-fried butter on a stick, this year’s gastronomical innovation at the fair, after she told us that what she really wanted was a deep-fried Twinkie. Instead, Tina tried both, which I captured on video:
Yes, this is the kind of hard-hitting journalism that the mainstream media simply refuses to do. I think it’s because their health insurers forbid it. When Tina has a cholesterol level of 320 at the age of 30, I have a sneaking suspicion she’s going to blame me for it.
Update: I meant to write 320 for a cholesterol level, not 32. I think Tina’s current cholesterol level is 32, or it was before today.
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Tina No!!!!
The calories…
Electrongod on August 12, 2011 at 8:53 PM
Go Tina!
carbon_footprint on August 12, 2011 at 8:53 PM
sweet mother of all that is good, I am from Iowa, and I have never eaten fried butter!
ted c on August 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM
Soon Michelle O will outlaw this event.
Electrongod on August 12, 2011 at 8:54 PM
My new goal in life is to start a blog where I can explain conservative principles, expose government overreach and corruption, and advance the cause of liberty in our country. No, it’s really to make videos like this.
redeye on August 12, 2011 at 8:55 PM
That is the gastronomic equivalent of crack cocaine.
pedestrian on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Cutie!
tdau1997 on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Mmmmmmm that fried stuff is grrrreat! At the Houston Rodeo, my wife and I had the fried Oreos, and it was incredible! I hope you guys have a great time up there.
Weight of Glory on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Fried butter? I would think that it would just melt. I’ve actually used butter to fry other things, like eggs.
Bigfoot on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
what on earth do you wash that down with? Coke? Beer? Milk?…..then again, it is butter, I guess you’d wash it down with corn on the cob, right?
ted c on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Wow, Tina is teh awesome!
Norwegian on August 12, 2011 at 8:56 PM
Cholesterol level of 32????
ladyingray on August 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM
Ah! The Sweet Buttery taste of Capitalism on a stick!
Kini on August 12, 2011 at 8:57 PM
how in the world can you take a stick of butter, put it in hot oil, and have something left over that you can call ‘fried butter’??? that’s just a concept I’m struggling with, you may have to post a “how to” update, Ed. Go peek over the counter and look-see how those folks are doing it.
ted c on August 12, 2011 at 8:58 PM
Only 32? Yeah, you shouldn’t stop her if her cholesterol is that low. Maybe go for some deep fried lard next year?
malclave on August 12, 2011 at 8:58 PM
I’m thinkin’ mash potatoes…then a generous amount of beer to eliminate the hiccups.
Electrongod on August 12, 2011 at 8:59 PM
Delicious. And the food looks good too.
angryed on August 12, 2011 at 8:59 PM
This is kinda gross, actually…
joejm65 on August 12, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Ed, if she’s looking like Rosie O’Donnell after primary season then we’re blaming YOU!/
ted c on August 12, 2011 at 9:00 PM
Yes. Tina should really be eating an apple. And peas,..lots of peas.
a capella on August 12, 2011 at 9:01 PM
Diet Coke, it cancels all the calories.
Oldnuke on August 12, 2011 at 9:01 PM
Go ahead, Tina! You can always ask for a seat belt extender on the plane ride home!
/just kidding, she’s a skinny m’link
Naturally Curly on August 12, 2011 at 9:02 PM
You go, girl. Eat them before they are outlawed by the moonbats.
Philly on August 12, 2011 at 9:02 PM
This is too funny.
Need to have a HA Food Channel type feature from now on – “the best thing I ever ate on the road.”
ex Dem from Miami on August 12, 2011 at 9:02 PM
Rosie?
How about Roseanne Barr. At least she knows fire can melt butter.
I think….
Electrongod on August 12, 2011 at 9:02 PM
We have fried Coke down here. I hear it’s delicious.
SouthernGent on August 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM
They’re called cracklin’s and they’re really tasty especially after you salt them heavily. Not actually deep fried lard but what’s left of the fat after the lard is rendered our. Best when skimmed right out of the rendering pot and eaten hot!
Oldnuke on August 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM
I don’t think Tina has to worry about that. The cholesterol is another story…..
conservative pilgrim on August 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM
It looks like it’s dipped in batter then fried. Sounds good but I wonder what the calorie count would be.
Rose on August 12, 2011 at 9:04 PM
Well you are in TX, it will melt before you can figure out how to deep fry it! Someone has way too much time on their hands if they figured out how to do this!
bluemarlin on August 12, 2011 at 9:05 PM
If S.E. Cupp ate a fried twinkie on a stick, that would be a story.
Emperor Norton on August 12, 2011 at 9:05 PM
Oh, cracklins are good!
bluemarlin on August 12, 2011 at 9:06 PM
I thought that was a fried mouse in the pic. Of course the mouse would have been healthier.
Southernblogger on August 12, 2011 at 9:06 PM
I stood in slack jawed amazement, while suckling on a beer of course, when a “grill savvy” friend of mine tried to grill provolone cheese–something that he had heard was “really good”….He apparently skipped the common sense question of what would happen to the cheese in the midst of grilling it.
ted c on August 12, 2011 at 9:08 PM
Tina I love your green top
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Can’t wait to try mine tomorrow. Thanks for the food review HotAir! :)
Rndguy on August 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Like baked Alaska.
the_nile on August 12, 2011 at 9:11 PM
Speaking of food I made a badass burger tonight
Burger stuffed with smoked gouda, bacon bits, and raw onion
Said burger rubbed in chili spice and covered in BBQ sauce.
Then topped with cheddar jack.
Side of roasted asparagus with a butter garlic sauce
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Deep-fried butter? How does she maintain that girlish figure? (Me, I’m a corndog man myself.)
manwithblackhat on August 12, 2011 at 9:13 PM
Ok, somebody HAS to try the deep-fried Snickers bar. The Fox News correspondents won’t shut up about them.
Meric1837 on August 12, 2011 at 9:13 PM
That does it. I’ll be right over.
manwithblackhat on August 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM
You haven’t lived till you’ve had deep fried ice cream.
lowandslow on August 12, 2011 at 9:15 PM
What I don’t get is how someone can eat that and still be so damn skinny.
vcferlita on August 12, 2011 at 9:16 PM
HotAir, #1 in conservative food reviews!
the_nile on August 12, 2011 at 9:18 PM
manwithblackhat on August 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM
I
Make a MEAN burger. And a mean BBQ wing with custom SAAAOOOCE
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:20 PM
Rib eyes and Iowa chops are available for the serious and dedicated eater.
a capella on August 12, 2011 at 9:21 PM
manwithblackhat on August 12, 2011 at 9:14 PM
And I forgot
Topped with raw red onion
Uggghh
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:22 PM
100,000 people go through those gates daily. That’s a lot of food. Tasty food.
a capella on August 12, 2011 at 9:23 PM
It’s age and genetics.
I had those same genetics.
Then I turned 30.
My diet hasn’t changed but I’ve gained 10 pounds in the past year.
Looks like I need to go back to ultrarunning.
JadeNYU on August 12, 2011 at 9:24 PM
okay… am I the only one who thought that was pornographic…?
btw, fried butter won first prize at last year’s Texas State Fair for the special fried foods category… it’s actually a batter dish, tastes like… butter. And yeah, fried coke and some other stuff got in there (again, battered dishes that REALLY taste like the namesake dish suggests…)
fabrexe on August 12, 2011 at 9:32 PM
There is nothing more alluring than a beautiful woman, the light falling like a soft mist on her cinnamon shoulders, her eyes wide as the West with wonder, as her luscious lips surround a big ole deep fat-fried butter-on-a-stick. Hello, nirvana.
TXUS on August 12, 2011 at 9:34 PM
okay… am I the only one who thought that was pornographic…?
–
Hmm
Yes
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM
Careful, Tina! Those are the type of foods Barney Frank ate before he farted on the Rachel Maddow program.
radjah shelduck on August 12, 2011 at 9:41 PM
Mmmmmm … fattening …
OhioCoastie on August 12, 2011 at 9:46 PM
Man …and here I thought I had a sweet tooth.
Impressive.
Next time you’re in L.A. I’ll give you the cupcake tour …heheheheh
The Ugly American on August 12, 2011 at 9:52 PM
For all you beta males out there:
Tina has no ring on her finger.
Take heart.
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:59 PM
What does Iowa know about fried food? They are north of the Mason-Dixon line! I am waiting for deep fried lard wrapped in bacon dipped in three different cheeses.
DAT60A3 on August 12, 2011 at 10:13 PM
I WAS going to post a link to when Michelle Malkin did the Cindy Sheehan fast–but there’s no link anymore!! The video’s been taken down!
Too bad, it was a classic. :-)
theotherone on August 12, 2011 at 10:18 PM
okay… am I the only one who thought that was pornographic…?
–
Hmm
Yes
blatantblue on August 12, 2011 at 9:35 PM
++++++++++++++++++
Didn’t bother to read the post right after mine, did you…? :->
fabrexe on August 12, 2011 at 11:27 PM
Hmm Tina’s about my age and hot damn is she beautiful or what?
SgtSVJones on August 12, 2011 at 11:43 PM
Somehow I think she’ll avoid becoming morbidly obese despite this event.
therightwinger on August 12, 2011 at 11:53 PM
Ed, you and Guy are Wussies. Although I’d rather stay away from deep fried butter, deep fried twinkies are standard fare fair food here in the deep south. What’s there not to like? A confection made of ingredients that are not normally found in nature and have a shelf life of 20 years, oil, preferably cotton seed or palm oil, lots of sugar and maybe honey to top it off. Something to send even young lady like Tina into a diabetic coma. That’s MMM good!
simkeith on August 13, 2011 at 6:37 AM
Tina, how lucky are you to have pimpled bespectacled anonymous bloggers sitting in their grammys basement checking you out and then felling like your life just can’t move forward unless they tell you all about it.
In the world of serious political blogging it doesn’t get any better than that.
/s
I appreciate your blogging and am glad you are having fun at the Fair. I’ve seen you on the tube a couple of times and I thought you did very well. Keep up the good work.
csdeven on August 13, 2011 at 7:59 AM
I’m a Type II diabetic, so I can’t handle the sugar. Guy, however, is a wussie. (Actually, he did finally eat a little of the deep-fried butter.)
Ed Morrissey on August 13, 2011 at 8:03 AM
An important part of a nutritious breakfast!
Jim Treacher on August 13, 2011 at 8:37 AM
Ed, she won’t have a cholesterol level of 320… because she’ll be measuring it with terms like 10W30….
SDN on August 13, 2011 at 9:55 AM
It’s dipped in a honey batter, and it’s in honor of the 100yr anniversary of our fair. Ed, if I knew I would be able to run into you, I would’ve gone…am going next week. Dang it, would’ve loved to have met you and the gang!
lovingmyUSA on August 13, 2011 at 10:03 AM
I sure hope you had a pork chop on a stick–best thing there!!!
lovingmyUSA on August 13, 2011 at 10:04 AM
She gets her vegetables only if she finishes all of it!
Amendment X on August 13, 2011 at 10:11 AM
This is great.
Ken & Barbie go to the Fair.
portlandon on August 13, 2011 at 10:16 AM
Cholesterol can’t be all bad!!!
It’s the molecule which makes all those pretty liquid crystal displays!
I think Liberals just hate it ’cause it makes people happy!!!
landlines on August 13, 2011 at 2:06 PM
Tina … marry me.
zauriel on August 13, 2011 at 3:55 PM
Libtards need to get a life. A couple fried dough items at a local fair is not going to make you fat and clog your arteries however sucking down 40 cups of starschmucks coffee drinks per week WILL. What kind of WHINE do you think you would hear if you took away these jackasses’ frapachinos, in the name of EATING HEALTY. Dont forget, drinks are FOOD too!
tx2654 on August 14, 2011 at 9:29 AM
Tina: “This is huge!”
Yes Tina, yes it is.
/I’m awful
jjraines on August 14, 2011 at 2:31 PM