Chicken Fried Piglet

What's better than a fistful of skillet fried bacon? I have the answer for you friends--bacon that is skillet fried, rolled in seasoned flour, fried again and then served up in a red and white checkered paper bowl at the Texas State Fair! Just ask my gal-pal Kate and I. We're so excited about it that we're blurry. Bacon, bacon, bacon!

Despite this artery clogging, heart stopping, once-in-a-lifetime fair food experience the real highlight at the Texas State Fair this year was by far the petting zoo (that, and the taco stand guy who hit on Kate, and the gang police out in unprecedented numbers due to it being High School Day). Those little baby critters with their outside the fryer, inedible charm, stole the show. I took enough photos of the exotic animal display to stamp the seal on my out-of-state status, but only one of them turned out. Go figure.

No, just kidding, a couple others did too. There was a girafe, several zebras, various bovine creatures of indo-african origins, four horned sheep of the Acopolypse, and my personal favorites, a mama piggy, PC term for Sow, and her little suckling piglets. 

Which reminds me of a joke I once made up at the age of 5 (I have witnesses). Why did the pig light a match? No, no, he didn't have gastrointestinal issues....I was FIVE. Answer: Because he wanted to be a pig-lit. Pig-lit, piglet, get it? Did I mention I was five? Ah, genius is never recognized it its own time.