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It was rumored that Elvis Pres­ley con­sumed Fried Peanut But­ter and Banana Sand­wiches.

He, accord­ing to CNN.com;

[…] pur­port­edly also dined large on bar­be­cue sand­wiches, bar­be­cue piz­zas, mash pota­toes, peas, apple pie and meat­loaf — the lat­ter which he some­times ate for weeks, even months, in a row. If it came on a blue plate, it was special.

Within the same vein of Elvis’s love for greasy junk food are the food items pre­sented at the State Fair of Texas. Notably deep fried foods that even­tu­ally stick to your arter­ies like bubblegum.

Yahoo News reports:

[…] Fried pota­toes and cat­fish are old hat to Tex­ans at what is billed as the largest state fair in the United States. What they long for is a new offer­ing for the vats of hot grease to go along with fair favorites such as fried pick­les, fried okra, fried corn on the cob and fried cheesecake.

This year, 14 new food items were intro­duced to the fair and eight of them are fried. New to the fair, held in a land that is home to chicken fried steak, are items such as fried Oreo cook­ies, fried candy bars, and fried cheese curds.