I'd never heard that it's supposedly impossible to eat six saltines in one minute.

BION, looks like that's true. No one was able to do it.

Has anyone here ever heard that? Or tried it?

The annual deep-fried extravaganza is coming! 

This year's offerings will include:

Fernie’s All-American Fried Grilled Cheese Sandwich. White bread sandwich with American and cheddar cheeses dipped in egg-and-milk batter, coated with bread crumbs, and fried.

Fried Banana Split. Banana and honey peanut butter
rolled in balls, battered, and deep-fried, topped with powdered sugar,
caramel and chocolate syrups, peanuts, whipped cream, banana
split-flavored ice cream bites, and cherry.

Texas Fried Jelly Bellys. Jelly Bellys rolled in funnel cake batter and fried.

Deep Fried S’mores. Marshmallow and chocolate chips sandwiched between two graham crackers, dipped in batter, fried, and dusted in powdered sugar.

Fire & Ice. Pineapple ring, battered and
deep-fried, topped with banana-flavored whipped cream that’s been
frozen in liquid nitrogen so it smokes.

Fried Chocolate Truffles. Dark chocolate truffle rolled in cocoa powder, battered, deep-fried, dusted in cinnamon, sugar, and cocoa powder.

Chocolate-Covered Strawberry Waffle Balls. Strawberries in chocolate shell, dipped in waffle batter, deep-fried, custed with powdered sugar, served on a stick.

And this year's winner of the Big Tex Choice award went to.....  [drum roll, please].....

Chicken Fried Bacon. Bacon with seasoning, battered, breaded, deep-fried, served with ranch or honey mustard sauce: