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9. Deep Fried Kool-Aid – San Diego County Fair In another strong showing for California’s other great fair — and originator of last year’s hash brown covered hot dog, San Diego debuts what is surely the trashiest food ever conceptualized. It’s just unclear why they didn’t wrap it in bacon.

8. Deep Fried Butter on a Stick – Iowa State Fair Texas may have invented deep fried butter at their own fair a few years back, but Iowa thought to put it on a stick. See, America, we can do great things when we work together. Yes, this involves frying an entire stick of butter, and yes, you simply have to watch the video for full effect.

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10. Chocolate Covered Corn Dog – Orange County Fair Could there be anything more American than dipping a hot dog in batter, deep frying it and eating it off a stick? Why yes, there could be. You could cover it in chocolate and put sprinkles on top, a treat that was found at both the OC Fair and neighboring San Diego County Fair.

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7. Buffalo Chicken in a Flapjack – Texas State Fair The first of several entries from the Lone Star state, this monstrosity is a chicken strip, coated in pancake batter and jalapeño bread crumbs, then deep fried and…you guessed it — eaten on a stick.

6. Red Velvet Funnel Cake – Florida State Fair Funnel cake has fallen behind on the list of outrageous fair foods recently. After fried beer and fried Coke, plain old fried dough starts to look pale by comparison. But this year we saw funnel cake get a new southern fried twist that injects some new life into it…and probably injects all kinds of chemicals too. Why eat fried dough when you can eat red fried dough?

5. El Bananarito – Texas State Fair This one has fruit in it, so we’re counting it as healthy. For some inexplicable reason, someone in Texas thought to roll a banana in a flour tortilla, deep fry the whole thing, then top it with whipped cream, powdered sugar, and chocolate sauce. Yes, please.

4. Chocolate Covered Jalapeno Poppers – Minnesota State Fair Looks like the new trend this year its taking deep fried classics and covering them in chocolate. Legendary Minnesota State Fair vendor, Andre’s Watermelon, decided to give jalapeño poppers the sweet makeover this year.

3. Deep Fried Salsa – Texas State Fair Well you’ve got to have something to top your bananarito with, don’t you? Just kidding — this one is basically a meal unto itself — jalapenos, roasted garlic, onion, tomato, and pepper rolled together, dipped in masa, covered in crumbled tortilla chips, and fried, with queso dip on the side.

2. Breakfast Lollipop – Minnesota State Fair Because no one should have to wait until lunchtime to start their deep fried gorging, Minnesota debuted this breakfast sausage patty on a stick. It’s dipped in corn muffin batter, deep fried, and covered in maple syrup.

1. Fried Ice Cream Burger – Florida State Fair Move over, Luther burger, there’s a new game in town, and this one comes with all the works. And by that, of course, we mean bacon, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle…and a scoop of cornflakebattered, deep fried ice cream.

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• She had many disguises. Once she disguised herself as an Irish peddler woman, claiming she was selling apples and soap to the soldiers. This afforded her access to the Confederate camps, where she chatted with her customers and gathered intelligence about upcoming campaigns. Another time she dyed her hair and skin black using berries, soot, and silver nitrate and got a job as a black laundress in a Confederate camp. She just happened to be standing next to a Confederate officer when a packet of important papers fell out of his pocket unnoticed, and she safely delivered the valuable information to her Union superiors.

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