{"id":4991,"date":"2006-10-29T19:44:52","date_gmt":"2006-10-29T19:44:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/fried-coke.html"},"modified":"2006-10-29T19:44:52","modified_gmt":"2006-10-29T19:44:52","slug":"fried-coke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/personal\/fried-coke.html","title":{"rendered":"Fried Coke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"213\" hspace=\"7\" src=\"http:\/\/voip-blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/uploads\/fried-coke.jpg\" width=\"320\" align=\"left\" vspace=\"7\" alt=\"\" \/>Apparently Fried Coke tastes great and is more filling which is great news for those of you who were afraid of excess carbohydrates without being accompanied by loads of fat.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It tastes great,&quot; said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales&#8217; fried Coke made its debut this fall. &quot;It was a huge success.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Gonzales ran two stands at the State Fair of Texas and sold up to 35,000 fried Cokes over 24 days for $4.50 each &#8212; and won a prize for coming up with &quot;most creative&quot; new fair food.<\/p>\n<p>Now other fairs in North Carolina and Arizona are following the trend, and other people are trying to emulate Gonzales&#8217; recipe.<\/p>\n<p>Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/today.reuters.com\/news\/articlenews.aspx?type=oddlyEnoughNews&amp;storyID=2006-10-27T124827Z_01_N26343691_RTRUKOC_0_US-LIFE-COKE1.xml&amp;WTmodLoc=Home-C5-oddlyEnoughNews-2\">more<\/a> on this calorically developing story. Who says you can&#8217;t have your Coke and eat it to?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently Fried Coke tastes great and is more filling which is great news for those of you who were afraid of excess carbohydrates without being accompanied by loads of fat. &quot;It tastes great,&quot; said Sue Gooding, a spokeswoman for the State Fair of Texas where Gonzales&#8217; fried Coke made its debut this fall. &quot;It was<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[220],"tags":[1548,1549],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4991\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}