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Newest Fair Food: Deep-Fried Coca-Cola

 

September 5, 2006

 

DALLAS -- There are fried Twinkies and even fried

candy bars.

 

Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new

artery-clogging concoction for the State Fair of

Texas. It's fried Coke.

 

Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. He then

drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The fried Coke is

topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a

cherry. Gonzales said the fried Coke came about just

from thinking aloud.

 

Gonzales' diet-buster wins the creativity honor at the

second-annual Big Tex Choice Awards Contest.

 

Judges for the contest chose Shirley London's Fried

Praline Perfection as the tastiest fried delicacy.

 

The two won out among 26 entries such as fried

macaroni and cheese and a deep-fried cosmopolitan.

 

London said she came up with the fried pralines idea

after buying pralines at the fair last year. She plans

to sell the pralines alongside fried marshmallows.

 

Gonzales achieved notoriety in 2005 with the fried

peanut butter, banana, and jelly sandwich -- selling

an estimated 25,000 of the treats, according to the

fair's Web site. The site said London got media

attention in 2004 with her fried marshmallows

on-a-stick.

 

This is the same state fair that brought about the

corn dog. The Web site said Neil and Carl Fletcher

conjured up a sweetened corn-battered wiener

on-a-stick and sold it for 15 cents during the 1942

State Fair of Texas.

 

The fair begins Sept. 29.

 

Distributed by Internet Broadcasting Systems, Inc. The

Associated Press contributed to this report.

 

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Sept. 8, 2006, 1:20PM

 

 

Hey, I think your lower intestine is ringing...

Reuters News Service

 

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador -- Four prisoners in an El

Salvador jail hid cellphones, a phone charger and

spare chips in their bowels so they could coordinate

crimes from their cells, prison officials say.

 

The four men, all gang members, wrapped their phones

and accessories in plastic and inserted them into

their rectums " far enough to reach their intestines, "

Ramon Arevalo, director of the maximum security

Zacatecoluca prison, said.

 

Arevalo said the ruse was discovered during X-ray

examinations following six weeks of investigations.

 

The men, members of the ultra-violent Mara Salvatrucha

street gang and the first in El Salvador known to go

to such lengths to make phone calls in jail, used the

cellphones to manage robberies, blackmail and murders

outside, Arevalo said.

 

The Zacatecoluca prison -- some 40 miles east of the

capital San Salvador and currently home to 337 inmates

-- goes by the nickname " Zacatraz, " after the famously

secure U.S. island penitentiary Alcatraz.

 

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