Incipient heart attack in 3 . . . 2 . . . 1 . . .

I thought I'd heard of most of the more unhealthy varieties of food out there, particularly after reading the warning literature given to me after my heart attack last year.

I was wrong.

Don't let anyone try to convince you otherwise: The Wisconsin State Fair is all about food that's battered and fried, dipped in chocolate, stuck on a stick, or slathered in decadence.

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Just two days after a sobering report about obesity was released by the national Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the fair opened its 11-day run with a bevy of traditional high-calorie favorites and new hot-sellers, including a Krispy Kreme cheeseburger packing 1,000 calories.




The Machine Shed expected to sell about 3,500 salty-sweet Krispy Kreme cheeseburgers over the first three days of the fair. Roughly a fourth of the $5 burgers sandwiched between two halves of a Krispy Kreme glazed doughnut were ordered with chocolate-covered bacon for an extra buck.

There's more at the link, including the widest variety of battered, deep-fried vegetables I've ever heard of!

If the thought of a cheeseburger sandwiched between two halves of a grilled glazed doughnut isn't enough to harden your arteries at 20 paces, how about this for dessert?

Even the most fervent chocoholic would have trouble tackling this beast - the world's largest brandy truffle ever created.

Weighing in at a whopping 253.9kg [about 560 pounds] and made using £1,600 [about US $2,544] of ingredients, the mega sweet treat contains a staggering 433,330 calories and 22,941g [almost 51 pounds] of fat.

The creators of the truffle are celebrating after their chocolate masterpiece, smashing the previous world record by almost 60kg.




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Owner of The Queen's Head Inn, in Bromsgrove, Worcs, Gianni D'Aniello and head chef Chris Long spent five and a half hours constructing the truffle from a traditional recipe of chocolate, brandy, double cream and cocoa powder.

The truffle, in accordance with the official guidelines, was created in the correct proportions and prepared in the same way as a normal size truffle with a ganache centre before being coated in cocoa powder.

Evidence of the attempt, to mark the start of National Chocolate Week, will now be submitted to the Guinness World Records so it can be formally verified as an official record-breaker.

Again, more at the link.

I'll be in my bed, groaning and holding my aching blood vessels . . .





Peter