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October 15, 2009

Kids Dance For Deep Fried Butter The Darndest Things

I'm not sure that the personal and public health ramifications of deep frying butter under any circumstances (county fair or no) are worth the injurious risk to both this little boy and the world at large in return for this magical dance. Somehow it seems an uneven and dangerous trade. And yet, the magical dance is here now, and we have nothing to do but to enjoy it. MAGIC DANCE MAGIC DANCE! MAGIC DANCE FOR YOUR BUTTER TREAT! (Via TheAwl.)

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I am sure that most anything is worth trading for that kind of magic.

Posted by: Godsauce profile link at 10/15/09 3:19 PM  | Reply
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This kid must be the messiah if he was able to acquire his signature dance at his first state fair! It usually takes the average person wearing a moose-head shirt 26 state fairs before they can pull that off. But what more could you expect form the second coming of our lord

Posted by: HarshBrowns profile link at 10/15/09 3:22 PM  | Reply
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That kid is truly, unconditionally happy over a piece of deep-fried butter. Don't you wish you could get that happy over anything anymore?

Posted by: Bubbles profile link at 10/15/09 3:22 PM  | Reply
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Kids fly in homemade balloons the darndest things.

Posted by: Jeff at 10/15/09 3:27 PM  | Reply
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That kid has almost exactly the same dance moves as me. Except when he does it is adorable, and when I do it people tell me to get off the dance floor so they can keep jerkin'.

Posted by: hlebtastic profile link at 10/15/09 3:40 PM  | Reply
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To quote Martin Sheen in Gandhi: "It went on and on, into the night... "

Posted by: pete at 10/15/09 3:41 PM  | Reply
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I watched this video wanting to make some sort of comment about the childhood obesity epidemic and feeding preschoolers deep fried butter, blah blah blah. But who am I kidding? I'd give this kid all the deep fried foods he wanted. What about Crisco? Can we deep fry that, in Crisco? The lovable scamp...

Posted by: women be photoshoppin' profile link at 10/15/09 3:45 PM  | Reply
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NO CRISCO. That is just disgusting.

Posted by: meaverly profile link  in reply to  women be photoshoppin''s comment at 10/16/09 6:05 PM  | Reply
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Wait, so deep-fried butter is a thing? Maybe all this health insurance nonsense really is a waste of time, since we're all going to die from heart attacks while dancing with joy for our fried butter treats.

Posted by: Jackie Jomp-Jomp profile link at 10/15/09 3:46 PM  | Reply
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Not gonna lie I am extremely intrigued by the idea of deep fried butter. Also this child is adorable and sadly a better dancer than me :o(.

Posted by: jneslo profile link at 10/15/09 3:51 PM  | Reply
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Aw. I was so hoping for the song from Labyrinth. But don't get me wrong, I'm still plenty happy to see that kid dancing about DEEP FRIED FUCKING BUTTER.

Posted by: kiss the pan profile link at 10/15/09 4:00 PM  | Reply
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8jT9FVIVSU

I hope David Bowie doesn't turn this child into a goblin friend.

Posted by: ittayonina profile link at 10/15/09 4:18 PM  | Reply
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Cute As [Butter] Balls!

Posted by: Napoleon Complex profile link at 10/15/09 4:20 PM  | Reply
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2 things. First, why did they loop two 5 second shots over and over for a minute? Second, that was total hoedown dancing, poor choice of music.

Posted by: blastomania at 10/15/09 4:41 PM  | Reply
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AGREED. So You Think You Can Dance FAIL.

Posted by: kittenpants profile link  in reply to  blastomania's comment at 10/15/09 4:51 PM  | Reply
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The very thought of deep fried butter makes my entire gastric system lurch to a grinding halt and then turn to bile. Also, gross.

Posted by: mjwalrus profile link at 10/15/09 4:42 PM  | Reply
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You'd think deep fried butter is disgusting. You'd think. I hated on it right up until my friends ordered it. Then I tried it, and OMG. It's like a fluffy biscuit explosion of happiness in your mouth. I get it, I wanted to dance too.

Posted by: erhead8 profile link at 10/15/09 5:26 PM  | Reply
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I've heard that heroin is really good. That doesn't mean I'm going to try it. If I had to choose to eat deep fried butter or inject heroin, I think I'd shoot myself instead and die quickly.

Posted by: Esme  in reply to  erhead8's comment at 10/19/09 9:22 PM  | Reply
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i realize not everyone lives in Dallas, home to the biggest and most ridiculous state fair in all of the land and host of an annual contest where fried whoknowswhat fights it out to be the weirdest, most unnecessary and delicious fried food of that year's fair. this year butter won the contest and that kid (and erhead8) got it right - it is worth that adorable dance! (but only the one time - really don't put fried butter on your family - i think it might be bad for you)

Posted by: jessicacea at 10/15/09 6:04 PM  | Reply
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He was smart enough for his signature dance to be a shuffling, straight ahead kinda thing without too many jerky moves or wild gesturing that will work for years to come, like when he's eight and towing an oxygen tank behind him...

Posted by: The Dubba Dubba profile link at 10/15/09 6:45 PM  | Reply
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Sometimes my home state makes me sad, like when a vendor at the state fair creates DEEP FRIED BUTTER and people eat it.

Posted by: Jesseca! profile link at 10/15/09 6:47 PM  | Reply
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This is like if you got my grandpa into one of his angry moods, and shrunk him down to kid size and then made him walk back and forth furiously.

Posted by: Elliot profile link at 10/15/09 7:05 PM  | Reply
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(sorry.)

Posted by: mjwalrus profile link at 10/15/09 9:04 PM  | Reply
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I may, or may not, be saying to my kid "why can't you be like THIS kid? You suck!"

my kid may or may not be 2 months old.

Posted by: CandyPants profile link at 10/15/09 9:07 PM  | Reply
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I may or may not be reading inferring to much here, but I think those scenarios are all mays.

Posted by: hlebtastic profile link  in reply to  CandyPants's comment at 10/16/09 2:26 AM  | Reply
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That poor boy is not dancing! He is having a stroke from eating DEEP FRIED BUTTER!!!!

Posted by: GhettoDuk at 10/16/09 2:20 AM  | Reply
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