»In which we present this year's award-winner

It's not literally a crack snack, but close: the Texas state fair has lauded its winners in the annual "you buy it, we fry it" competition:

DALLAS -- There are fried Twinkies and even fried candy bars.

Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new artery-clogging
concoction for the State Fair of Texas. It's fried Coke.

Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola-flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke
fountain syrup on it. The fried Coke is topped with whipped cream,
cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the fried Coke came about
just from thinking aloud.

Gonzales' diet-buster wins the creativity honor at the second-annual
Big Tex Choice Awards Contest.

Judges for the contest chose Shirley London's Fried Praline Perfection
as the tastiest fried delicacy.

The two won out among 26 entries such as fried macaroni and cheese and
a deep-fried cosmopolitan.

London said she came up with the fried pralines idea after buying
pralines at the fair last year. She plans to sell the pralines
alongside fried marshmallows.

Gonzales achieved notoriety in 2005 with the fried peanut butter,
banana, and jelly sandwich -- selling an estimated 25,000 of the
treats, according to the fair's Web site. The site said London got
media attention in 2004 with her fried marshmallows on-a-stick.

This is the same state fair that brought about the corn dog. The Web
site said Neil and Carl Fletcher conjured up a sweetened corn-battered
wiener on-a-stick and sold it for 15 cents during the 1942 State Fair
of Texas.

I want to have a "Deep Friday" party, in which parallel banks of deep friers provide sweet and savoury batters for all comers. The default fried item would probably be a Twinkie.