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August 6, 2025 5 mins
"Have you ever wanted to eat a deviled egg… that’s also a cheeseburger… that’s also deep-fried?"In this mouthwatering and side-splitting episode of The Ben and Skin Show, Ben Rogers, Jeff “Skin” Wade, Kevin “KT” Turner, and Krystina Ray — take you on a wild ride through the outrageous finalists for the Big Tex Choice Awards at the State Fair of Texas. From brisket-injected pretzels to Wagyu bacon cheeseburger deviled egg sliders, this segment is a full-blown fried food fever dream.But it’s not just about food — it’s about fun, flavor, and fistfights. That’s right: the episode ends with a teaser for a real-life media beef brewing in the Metroplex, where a local media personality has challenged his former boss to a literal fight. You’ll want to stick around for that.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Are you excited?

Speaker 2 (00:07):
Featuring veteran news anchor kt fun tweets state Fair, State Fair,
I'm a carney man about you, guys. Fifteen food and
drink finalist in this for the State Bear of Texas.
This every year, you know, and they get the big list,
it's the Big Text Choice Awards. They've got it narrowed
down to fifteen.

Speaker 3 (00:27):
So I know we're in the five o'clock hour here.

Speaker 2 (00:30):
Our stomachs are probably starting to rumble a little bit
thinking about dinner tonight. And I tell you, we'll get
the food first, and we'll get some refreshing drinks. They've
added to this year's list, believe it or not.

Speaker 3 (00:40):
Savory food.

Speaker 2 (00:42):
Number one Brisket and Bruce stuffed pretzels.

Speaker 3 (00:46):
What that's right?

Speaker 2 (00:48):
A pretzel slider injected with beer, cheese and topped with brisket.

Speaker 4 (00:52):
Yep.

Speaker 1 (00:53):
I think I would eat a lot of it.

Speaker 5 (00:55):
Anything that you just add brisket to it's gonna be great.
And then you're like cheese also, So even if it
was like this cardboard shingle with brisket and it would
be good.

Speaker 1 (01:08):
Perishes shingles sounds great, could be great.

Speaker 3 (01:11):
Crab and mozzarella ad and GINI.

Speaker 6 (01:14):
Can you say it normally so I know what you
just said.

Speaker 2 (01:16):
Crab and mozzarella, Ara and GINI, this is blue crab
and mozzarella rice balls coated and bread crumbs and fried
comes at the side of housemade MARINERA.

Speaker 4 (01:26):
Dude, I love crab, blue crab. I mean, king crab
is number one, but blue crabs right there too.

Speaker 3 (01:32):
I would eat a lot of what you just said.
All these things look and they look good. Just a
little balls.

Speaker 2 (01:39):
Deep fried Deli tacos Jewish Mexican fusion. Basically, it's a
fried taco filled with smoked pastrami, mashed potatoes, and some cheese,
well jalapino sauce on the side. They look like Butria tacos,
but they're you know, not that.

Speaker 4 (02:00):
I just had a flashback to last year when you
did this, and you clearly didn't read it before. You're
like reading as you were going, and you're questioning what
you were reading at the time.

Speaker 3 (02:10):
What are you talking about?

Speaker 2 (02:11):
I always prap more than anyone has ever prepped for
any show ever.

Speaker 4 (02:16):
I need to find that clip.

Speaker 2 (02:17):
I always look at the link before I present it
on the air. What are you talking about? Vietnamese crunch
dog ben.

Speaker 1 (02:24):
Okay, I have I have seen some of these.

Speaker 5 (02:27):
It's like a it's like a fancy corn dog, right,
you ever had a Korean corn dog?

Speaker 1 (02:31):
I've heard. I've seen them online.

Speaker 3 (02:33):
There's one over there about the Pluckers and Addison that
we go to.

Speaker 5 (02:36):
Sometimes it's like it's it's a corn dog or some
sort of you know, I don't know what the meat
is if. It's always the same as like a hot dog,
but it's got some super crunchy, deep fried exterior and
it's usually a little bit more extravagant than just a
corn dog.

Speaker 1 (02:49):
Yeah.

Speaker 2 (02:49):
Also, last I thought, I've been here too. Wag you
bacon cheeseburger deviled egg sliders.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
Let's go.

Speaker 3 (02:57):
The only for you is sausage.

Speaker 5 (02:59):
So are they are they making them without buns or
making them on eggs as the buns?

Speaker 2 (03:03):
So this is uh yeah, it's a deviled egg filling
and secret recipe burger sauce, and it's a fried dish.

Speaker 3 (03:11):
It's just like a bite. They're all fried.

Speaker 6 (03:12):
Of course, everything's just dropped in a fryer.

Speaker 1 (03:14):
Just take it like a double egg.

Speaker 6 (03:16):
Yeah, deep right, and it's got cheeseburger in it. Yes,
take this entire meal and get out of the fryer.
I love it.

Speaker 1 (03:27):
What's that sandwich that uh Friday step?

Speaker 5 (03:30):
Yeah, it's just a regular sandwich, but then they deep
fry it and put a powdered fugar on it.

Speaker 2 (03:34):
It's like, Okay, guys, I've been thinking I haven't had
a good stomach ache in a long time.

Speaker 3 (03:39):
I'm gonna try these foods.

Speaker 1 (03:40):
You know.

Speaker 6 (03:41):
It's even better than that is the Monte Cristo. Do
that thing curls off a dir dirt pick and money.

Speaker 1 (03:48):
You got it? All good?

Speaker 3 (03:49):
Twenty fifteen joke, Thanks to be good.

Speaker 1 (03:52):
I had a berea taco joke from twenty eleven.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
Keep them coming? What else they've had it?

Speaker 2 (04:00):
Drinks to the State Fair thing? Now some drinks, Now,
some refreshing drinks. This is called a coconut quadruple. It's
huge and it looks like it's a coconut.

Speaker 1 (04:09):
H Do you fry it?

Speaker 3 (04:11):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (04:11):
That's some drinks. I don't really care about drinks of desserts.
You guys into desserts. Final five on desserts. Yeah, lets
some sweet after you get some savor. What's so funny?

Speaker 1 (04:23):
What a weird way to say that?

Speaker 2 (04:25):
Dubai chocolate funnel cake fries. You guys are ware of
the trend of Dubai chocolate, I'm not. Yes, it's like
the most expensive chocolate.

Speaker 1 (04:33):
I've seen it. My daughter and my wife tried to
make some of it at the house.

Speaker 5 (04:37):
Like it's yeah, I tried to make it.

Speaker 3 (04:40):
It's apparently a big deal and hard to get.

Speaker 1 (04:43):
Is it more expensive than macha?

Speaker 3 (04:45):
Probably not now because of you.

Speaker 4 (04:48):
Does it taste it has to taste different?

Speaker 3 (04:50):
Is it sweeter? I don't understand. I don't really know.

Speaker 4 (04:52):
Okay.

Speaker 2 (04:53):
The other Dubai chocolate finalist in deserts is du Buy
Chocolate cheesecake.

Speaker 3 (04:56):
It truly is a fad that i'd heard of before this.

Speaker 5 (04:59):
Okay, So I'll show you a picture of its skin.
It looks like machya tea in the middle of a
candy bar.

Speaker 3 (05:04):
Oh, I'm in on that.

Speaker 1 (05:06):
You can't see it.

Speaker 6 (05:07):
I would like to perform my masculinity while eating that.

Speaker 1 (05:10):
My daughter my wife made some of this and they
said it wasn't that great.

Speaker 3 (05:13):
Is that like pistachio that they're going with that green stuff?

Speaker 2 (05:17):
I think it's macha, dude, I don't know. Relax, have
a maya candy Limon, sour Face, the Chill and Thrill,
the light. They got all kinds of stuff at the
fair this year. We'll see you out there there. You
can go out, you can hang out and get your
corn dog talk to Big Text good time.

Speaker 6 (05:31):
I'm gonna do it out there on the Midway, all right.
Coming up next, we've been talking about this all day,
It's time to get into it. There is a huge
beef happening in the Metroplex with a media member and
his former boss, and the media member has challenged the
former boss to a fistfight. We will get into all
the details of this next right here on the Bit

(05:51):
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