A Hunk-a Hunk-a Saturated Fat

Uh well-a bless-a my soul, this news item about an Elvis statue has got me all shook up. One of the featured attractions being touted for the 2005 State Fair of Texas is a big old sculpture of The King carved out of some 800-lbs. of (unsalted) butter. Ironic? You tell me, though I'm of the opinion that, a few hundred less peanut-butter and banana sandwiches (each fried, mind you, in a pound of butter), and Elvis would've made it out of that bathroom alive in 1977 - and we might still be blessed with a 70-year old singing idol continuing to do his level best to teach white America how to Get Down. (Or at least have us paying rapt attention, wondering which karate kick was going to blow out the seat of his jumpsuit ... or result in a femur's head popping out of a hip socket.) Butter!