{"id":11869,"date":"2013-03-06T11:51:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T11:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/struth-stampede-for-icy-fried-coke\/"},"modified":"2015-08-10T08:35:12","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T08:35:12","slug":"struth-stampede-for-icy-fried-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/2013\/03\/struth-stampede-for-icy-fried-coke\/","title":{"rendered":"Struth! Stampede for Icy Fried Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-omku0FsImg8\/UTct1Ty1DyI\/AAAAAAAAdyI\/USeqLKELQew\/s1600\/Deep%2Bfried%2BCoca%2BCola.rsz-709455.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-omku0FsImg8\/UTct1Ty1DyI\/AAAAAAAAdyI\/USeqLKELQew\/s320\/Deep%2Bfried%2BCoca%2BCola.rsz-709455.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<br \/>IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the Canadian city of Calgary that holds its annual 10-day Stampede every July, should add &#8220;Cooking Oil Capital of the World&#8221; to its title.<\/p>\n<p>Because here just about anything that you can eat or drink is also available deep-fried: and not just main courses like that usual old chicken, fish, battered savs and fries, but hamburgers too.<\/p>\n<p>Plus all forms of confectionery, desserts\u2026 and Coca Cola. Yes, Deep Fried Coke is a specialty of dozens of stall holders at the Stampede: the Coke is mixed into a batter made of flour, baking powder, sugar and eggs, rolled into balls, deep fried and served in large milk-shake containers \u2013 and if that&#8217;s not sufficiently sweet and calorie-laden enough for your liking, this deep fried Coke is then sprinkled with powdered sugar, doused with cola syrup and topped with a garnish of whipped cream.<\/p>\n<p>M&#038;Ms, jelly beans, Mars Bars, Oreos and Wagon Wheels all get similar batter and deep-fry treatment \u2013 and for dessert you can go for cheesecake that&#8217;s sliced and cocooned in spring roll wrappers and deep fried.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0IN his continuing search for the more weird, wacky and wondrous in the world of travel, David Ellis says the Canadian city of Calgary that holds its annual 10-day Stampede every July, should add &#8220;Cooking Oil Capital of the World&#8221; to its title. Because here just about anything that you can eat or drink is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[240,1],"tags":[377],"class_list":["post-11869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-struth-3","category-uncategorized","tag-struth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23050,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11869\/revisions\/23050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/traveloscopy.com\/travel-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}