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Monday, August 22, 2011

A corn what??

The other night, C & I were laying in bed, reading. I was flipping through a chick magazine and stopped on an article on guilty pleasures. There were various celebrity quotes, and when C took a break from his (boring, IMO) army book, and this quote by Teri Hatcher caught his eye:He was like "What?? A CORN dog?? What on Earth is a corn dog?" I was confused for a second because I'm a bad almost-wife** and sometimes I forget what I did with whom (ie. that I had been to the MN State Fair many-a-time with Fab but that C has never been).

So I explained what it was and how one eats a corn dog. A hot dog, on a stick, dipped in cornmeal batter (btw, do you have any idea how hard it is to explain 'cornmeal batter' in French??) and then fried - I swear, it just about blew C's mind. Why would one ever think to do that?

And really, why would one ever think to do that?


**C's new nickname for me. It's cute, non?
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12 comments:

  1. shannonAugust 22, 2011 at 12:03 PM

    Now, I want a corn dog. It's been ages since I've had one!

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  2. BlondeInFranceAugust 22, 2011 at 12:28 PM

    Don't care why, just glad someone did! It probably has something to do with boardwalks/county fairs where portable food is important and those that have the most creative and delicious things to put on sticks or in cones make the most money!

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  3. Sharyn EkberghAugust 22, 2011 at 12:45 PM

    try explaining deep fried butter...

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  4. JulieAugust 22, 2011 at 7:58 PM

    We call a battered, deep-fried sausage on a stick a hot dog in New Zealand. What you guys call hot dogs are American hot dogs.

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  5. JenniferAugust 22, 2011 at 8:23 PM

    I love that you two still have moments of complete cultural confusion. :)

    What a great nickname!

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  6. emaleejayneAugust 22, 2011 at 9:04 PM

    I don't know why but thank goodness they did because corn dogs are delicious!! :)

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  7. SarahAugust 22, 2011 at 11:07 PM

    I made Gui have one on his first trip to Sonic and he suprisingly loved it. :)

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  8. AnimeshAugust 23, 2011 at 11:30 AM

    A very cute name indeed!

    Also, I wonder how he will react to the concept of fried butter :-)

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  9. AnonymousAugust 23, 2011 at 6:47 PM

    I had Phil try these on our recent trip to Florida and was surprised that he LOVED them. (He's a very Traditional French Food eater.)

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  10. AnonymousAugust 24, 2011 at 4:12 PM

    Why would someone in France have once decided to cook up a snail and add butter/garlic/pesto?

    Because it's THERE. And it's good.

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  11. leon's lifeAugust 25, 2011 at 6:45 AM

    Fried butter ! I'm British not from the USA

    I will need to Google that to find out what it is, sounds scarey but I'll probably love it :)

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  12. deedeeAugust 30, 2011 at 8:21 AM

    A corndog probably does seem strange to a Frenchman, but I wonder what he'd think about the deep fat fried butter on a stick (Iowa state fair, so I hear) or the deep fat fried pickles on a stick (Nebraska state fair)...makes that corn dog look pretty darn delicious.

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