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[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by SzczerbiakManiac

I don't think I am understanding your comment CP.

I'm okay with butter being AN ingredient in a deep-fried treat. I'm drawing the line at butter being (essentially) the ONLY ingredient.

When you eat onion rings, you are eating a bunch of batter with some onion in it. The onion may be marginally good for you, but the overwhelming amount of calories, fat, cholesterol, etc makes this a treat for sure. In other words, "deep fried butter with some onion in it."

I absolutely adore onion rings and can scarcely ever turn them down. But I'm honest about what I'm eating.

If you eat something like deep fried butter and feel bad, you could eat a piece of vegetable and pretend that was inside of it...but again, I wouldn't say it offsets enough anyway.

There is a reason "batter" and "butter" have only one letter difference

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Cadaverous Pallor

If you eat something like deep fried butter and feel bad, you could eat a piece of vegetable and pretend that was inside of it...but again, I wouldn't say it offsets enough anyway.

There is a reason "batter" and "butter" have only one letter difference

2 things:

1) Take the amount of butter/oil/fat in the batter...then ADD a stick of butter. That's what you're eating.

2) There's a difference between having some fat/oil/butter integrated into a batter vs. a stick of whipped butter wrapped in batter. If you don't consider that a difference, I don't really understand where you're coming from.

To put it another way, I eat lots of things that contain a Tblsp of butter as an ingerdient. That doesn't mean I'd take a tablespoon, scoop out some butter from a tub, and eat it. Let alone wrap a stick of butter in something that contains a Tblsp of butter and eat that.

[Cadaverous Pallor]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

2 things:

1) Take the amount of butter/oil/fat in the batter...then ADD a stick of butter. That's what you're eating.

It didn't say how much butter is involved. It also mentioned that it's surrounded by dough. I don't know what the percentages are, but I'm assuming it would be similar to a jelly donut. Sweet, whipped butter isn't much different from custard.

2) There's a difference between having some fat/oil/butter integrated into a batter vs. a stick of whipped butter wrapped in batter. If you don't consider that a difference, I don't really understand where you're coming from.

To put it another way, I eat lots of things that contain a Tblsp of butter as an ingerdient. That doesn't mean I'd take a tablespoon, scoop out some butter from a tub, and eat it. Let alone wrap a stick of butter in something that contains a Tblsp of butter and eat that.

If we're talking about the subjective gross factor, I've stuck a pinky in sweet whipped butter and had a lick. I can't say I'd eat it with a spoon. It all depends on percentages and flavoring.

Regarding health concepts - you really couldn't make a case that it's any worse than any other deep fried thing.