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Sep 09, 2011

Deep Fried Bubblegum. It [Too] Is a Thing.

This year, the summer State Fair continues to outdo itself. First deep fried Kool Aid, then deep fried sticks of butter. And now? Fried bubblegum. As award-winning deep fry master Abel Gonzales remarked upon inventing the butter trick...."Where do you go from here?"

Apparently, to the dime store… read more

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Jun 20, 2011

Deep Fried Kool-Aid. It's a thing.

created at: 06/20/2011

It's June, which means it's fair season. And fair season means it's putting-weird-things-in-the-deep-fryer season.

Surely, plenty of both solid sweet and savory items have taken a turn in the fryer, but what about liquids? Like Kool-Aid?

Apparently, it can… read more

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Oct 06, 2010

Spied at the Craft Fair: Hairy Animal Hats

Origin: The London Craft Fair recently displayed these crazy awesome felted hairy animal hats, made from Sussex wool and alpaca fleece. They're simultaneously scarily lifelike and functionally impossible, making them all around fun.

   

They're each handmade by Barbara Keal, who "loves felting because it it such an immediate and physical way of making, it is also very environmentally clean. The wool hasn't travelled far and warm water and olive oil soap are the only other ingredients apart from my own energy."

 

She was inspired by the "wild and motley looking crew of herdwicks,… read more

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