Here's a challenge for you, can you name something that doesn't taste better deep fried?
Think about it, its impossible.
You've got nothing.
Now I don't know who invented deep frying, but clearly that person made Einstein look like he fell off the back of the short-bus. What did Einstein do for the world? Nulcear bombs? Yeah that's just what the world needs Einstein!!
Tell me, where is the monument to the deep-fry inventer?
Anyhoo, the point is that deep-frying is great!. I'm not crazy about things like cheese curds, but deep fry them fuckers and you got a stew going there.
Twinkies, the food of the past, present, and future nuclear holocaust survivors, tastes way better deep fried.
And then there's things that you'd probably never eat, like chicken heads. But if you had to, wouldn't you first want to dunk them in batter and drop them a fryer? I bet that would be quite tasty!!
What's your favorite deep-fry? What do you wish you could deep -fry?
And what do you think might somehow taste worse deep-fried than not deep-fried?
and of course, WFL?
58 comments:
french fries. And no, I don't mean french fries themselves, I mean that special magical twice-fried french fries. Mmmmm.
I'm determined to come up with something that doesn't taste better fried. My first instinct was to say sushi, but my second instinct said "Spider roll, duh". Hmmm . . . .
Btw, thanks for the laugh Watchdog! That chicken head picture always cracks me up! It totally looks like a fake, but it's funny b/c it's real! Ha ha!
NOBODY else has anything to say about fried foods??
While I was home for Christmas, I went to dinner with MamaQuake and the GrandQuakes at this seafood joint that we always go to when I'm home. They have the ubiquitous Fisherman's Platter there, and you have the perennial choice of having your Fisherman's Platter broiled or fried. I've never understood why there's an option. If you're going to give me a head-sized platter covered with a fish fillet, shrimp, oysters, scallops, and hush puppies, they better be battered and magicized in hot oil. Why would you want to look at those slimy little invertebrates (except the fish) without a cozy, delicious coat of batter?
Speaking of which, Lady A, any chance I can re-up my Fried Festival Invitation at The Subterranean?
Today for lunch I'm going to have something expensive because I took my car in for what I was sure was going to be a timing belt replacement to the tune of a thousand bucks. Turns out it was a drive belt adjustment to tune of zero bucks. Winner, winner! Chicken dinner!
I've been considering buying a deep frier for a long while. the argument is usually:
m: i love fried foods
M: you'll burn yourself
m: i don't care about the fat
M: you'll be hideously disfigured
m: i'd actually eat leftovers if they were deepfried
M: hot oil + you = disaster
m: i'd get all the girls with a deep frier
M: you don't even know where your insurance card is.
depending on the comments today i may buy one on my way home as well as gallons of peanut oil.
i also am determined to figure out something that would not taste better deepfried... my initial thoughts would be somethign that is sooooo good tasting purely because of the delicacy of its taste... something subtle yet wonderful... like a chicken head?
I was at a survival weekend with Lord A (formerly Mr. Uni)and there was a fellow who was a chef with us. He told us of a time that they used the deep fryer to pull a fast one on this douche who worked with them. So this annoying guy was invited to an after hour dinner and the chef made breaded & fried chicken breasts. he made 4 of them. One each for himself and his 3 homies. Then he took a dirty dish rag and froze it, breaded it and fried it. of course they had to change the oil after that, but the breading formed a great crust and the rag looked just like the rest of the breasts. the guy said that the douche was having trouble cutting his breast and after he finally got a peice cut and started chewing it, they all had a good laugh and finished their own dinner. He laughed along with them, but didn't get dinner.
I'll guarentee that deep frying improves the flavor of dirty dish rags.
As for what doesn't improve with a bit of time in the fryer... I can imagine tuna fish with mayo rolled into lil hotdog sized bits then fried and poorly drained would be gross. WHo knows thought. If only somebody had a home fryer and would try that.
Tis (always) the season for some deep fried!!
Twizzlers...I'm not sure how deep fried twizzlers would taste...definitely not the anise flavor ones.
Equake - we definitely need to set up a deep fry/slow cooker shind dig!
FYI - I may be doing some bowling in the commonwealth tomorrow night...if anyone is interested let me know and I'll keep you updated!
Not sure what to have for lunch today maybe soup???
A-ha! I remember a bad fried food experience.
Strike Bethesda. a boutique bowling alley up norf from Capitol City. Expensive bowling, fancy waitresses, pricy drinks and occasionally good tunes.
I ordered a set of corn dogs. I know, I know. It seems like a safe bet, but they were poorly, or not at all, drained and they were disgusting. If they were less than $9 I wouldn't have even finished half of the first one. As it was, I fought through 3 bites and nearly gagged.
I haven't been back there since then. It's Ghetto Bowl for me from now on.
I am quite interested in bowling, but have just committed to going out to dinner with Lil Miss Sunshine. Keep me abreast of the plans.
Mmmm... abreast
Lady A. More details on Bowling please.
LMS is willing to move our date to Sunday night to clear up time for the sport of kings.
Is this the Falls Church bowling in the Commonwealth, or the Alexandria bowling in the Commonwealth? Or is there some other joint out there?
cukumbers. They are the thing that tastes not better when you puts it in the fryer. You not beleive Mitch? try it. Cukumbers are ok on they own, but when you make they hot they lose they snap and they just be gross.
I could be up for bowling. Let me know the 411.
If we're talking about bad fried-food experiences, I have expounded before about the fried fish place in Bermuda. And now that I think about it, I can say that fried soup is never a good idea.
I would say salad, but tempura veggies belie that notion . . . still thinking. I've never had a fried twinkie. I'd sure like to try one.
Oooh, fried Coke. Yeah, I've heard of that & would like to try it. Oink.
Onions. In either ring, matchstick or awesome blossom form, they are the best fried food ever, a perfect mix of salty, sweet, sour and grease. Yum!
Though I've never actually tried a fried cuke, I'm gonna agree with w/ Ill Mitch. There's nothing grosser than a hot cucumber (ewww . . . flacid veggies!), except possibly a fried one.
Yeah, I guess not all salad veggies are up for the deep-fried treatment.
In college my friend & I used to love to eat mozzarella sticks & assorted fried foods & we'd talk about what piggies we were. When she went home for some vacation, she said one of the radio stations was having some contest (I think the point was the best one would get a prize or something??) where you called up & described yourself in 3 words. Most people were like "Funny, intelligent, cute" or whatever personal-ad style crap. She was like "I almost called to say 'Deep. Fried. Oinker.'" HA HA HA HA!!! How funny would that be if you heard someone on the radio describe themselves that way?!? Ha ha!
Geez. Like recycled oil in the fry daddy, we're just going over the same ground again and again.
Turtle, couldn't you have just left the past where it belongs... in the past.
It was cool to see the old pictures that we used to use. Perhaps it's time for a new one.
Ima google "fried Sunshine" in an image search.
Check me out. The shades mean i'm "fried"
Great post WD.
Unfortunately I can't give a lengthy response as I am off to the airport for a trip to the Arizona desert.
MikeyS I will be rooting your team on!
Happy weekend OWFL!
Got lunch at the buffet place, and of course picked up some deep fried goodness. an onion ring and spring roll. Yummy
I like to go bowling. In fact, bowling alleys are one of my favorite places to eat fried foods. Can I get a double order of fried mushrooms over here?
Yeah JO. Say Go Gators! to everybody you see. People react well to that.
In turn, I'll cheer for your b-ball team on saturday.
Mmmm . . . mozzarella stix.
I didn't have deep-fried fare for lunch, but it is buttery. In honor of spaghetti day yesterday, I was inspired to not eat more Jersey Mike's and to concoct a crab spaghetti dish. And now I'm eating the remains for lunch. It has butter and olive oil and garlic in it. As well as big chunks of real alaskan king crab. God, it's good.
And on a (sort of) related note, a coworker of mine just gave my number to her boot camp instructor . . . this could be interesting, seeing how out of shape I am . . . .
WD - an onion ring?
i really, really wanted deep fried today. so i went to a mexican restaurant and when i saw that magical menu item i almost cried with happiness.
chimichangas
i ordered and began to wait, periodically dabbing the saliva away from the corners of my mouth.
bitch/hobag/wench/skankball waitress comes out to inform me the deep fryer had just broken and that i should have a burrito as it is 'exactly the same as a chimichanga except not fried'
i back handed her and then ordered the burrito.
suffice to say, i shall never return to "Ole, Ole" in Suffern, NY again.
Sorry for the late response WD. I looked earlier beforeI had to cart around the new guy to different Universities here in Houston so he could check out enrollment. He is freshlyh from Nigeria.
Well one of my good ones has been taken, cukes are definitely no good fried. Having been a boy scout for most of my life we have always tried the easy way out which is dumping things in hot grease ... that is probably where the saying comes from "In hot grease" if someone doesn't like you or you are seen as a problem child, they stick you in the hot grease and viola' no more problems.
As it were the only other thing I know that is definitely better left as-is as opposed to fried it tomatoes. Squish and whip them and add salt and they make anything fried taste even better (yes .. I've tried it on a fried twinkie .. and surprise surprise it tastes even better) or cut them into fresh slices and add salt and they taste great. But you deep fry a tomato and it rips a not-so-tasty hole in the universe.
Its just wrong.
SUFFERN YEAH!!!!! I used to go to the Ole Town Tavern ALL THE TIME!!! That place is awesome! We'd get pissed and play Golden Tee for hours! Sean is one of the best bartenders EVER!!
LT, yes AN onion ring. When I go to the buffet I usually walk out with small amounts of about 15 food items. I love the variety.
Has anyone ever tried the chicken fries at BK. Its oh so tantalizing.
I wish I could go bowling tomorrow, but i'll be on my way to the Middle East. I'll have a report in a couple weeks on my lunches over there.
lunch today is decidedly un-fried.
Chicken Ceasar salad. Doritos. Cherry coke.
BTW M, I like you Ubuntu blog and MANMAN is a pretty darn good band. I like the boombox mp3.
Regardless, fried tomatoes = not-so-tasty-hole-in-the-universe.
I stand by that... Green Tomatoes are not real tomatoes and fried green tomatoes kinda suck unless you dip them in ketchup. :)
Haven't had lunch yet ... just lots and lots of Venti sized black crack.
Tomatoes dipped in ketchup? That's like dipping McNuggets in chicken blood isn't it?
Wow, WD! Have a good time (eating) over there! Try some mutton.
My mom loves fried okra. I am learning to love it. I used to hate it, just because of my mental association of all okra with the slimy boiled style of cooked okra. But fried up (well, not deep fried) in cornmeal with tomatoes - yum!
Sunshine, take heart - Doritos are generally fried. Unless you got that bastard concoction known as 'baked doritos'???
Geez, M, did the waitress break the deep fryer? Methinks you were misplacing your anger. You should have gone into the kitchen and smacked the guy in charge of servicing the fryer.
Mikey, there is no voodoo to it. Simply that fried green tomatoes (which taste nothing like ripe tomatoes) are only good once dipped in ketchup. I stand by that statement. ... ok tabasco is good on them too.
Please say that someone in your family doesn't fry okra and Tomatoes. Fried okra is a sacred thing not to be despoiled by carpet bagging Northerners.
It's not voodoo. It's SATs. Fried green tomatos:chicken nuggets
Ketchup:chicken blood
See?
And I'll have you know my mom is from Oklahoma, and lived around there, Texas & N'awlins growing up (um, and Wyoming, but that was later). Her daddy was in the oil biz & both he & her mama were from Oklahoma, too, so don't go around calling my mama no northerner carpet-bagger!!!!!
I'm no grey blooded Rebel, but I don't consider Oklahoma part of the south. I'll give you Texas & Louisiana, although I always consider texas to be Texas, and while Texans are similar in many ways to the Southerners, I think they are distinct. But what do I know... I'm just a Floridian carpetbagger.
And I really like fried Ocra.
Have any of y'all tried it non-fried. It is hilarious. The flavor is kind of a light pepper-like flavor, but if you get the little beads that are in it and you chew them... man it's just wierd. Think of Chewls gum, where it squirts. But it is a strange goo that comes out and the mouth feel is rediculous.
That plant is best served fried, or in gumbo.
Yes! Boiled/steamed okra is the worst. I can't get past the slime. It's like Slimer from Ghostbusters appeared in my mouth. (Have fun with that one.)
Maybe you don't count OK as south, but it surely ain't no northern carpet-bagger state! Why am I so annoyed at that? Hm.
went to five guys today for a burger but haven't been hungry yet. it's sitting on my desk right now marinating. i want to go to yoga later tonight, so i'm wondering when i'll ever get to eating this sucker.
busy busy busy bees...can't go bowling tomorrow b/c i have a dinner soiree to attend. but have fun kids!
Yahoo news headlines crack me up. This one is funny, b/c the headline just reeks of "Holy cow!! We can't believe it either!" And this one is funny just for the mental image it gives me. Hee hee!
The sad thing is, I have loads of work to do today.
mikeysunshine: NICE pull on the Chewls gum. That stuff was gross, no matter how many times my mind told me it would taste good.
Picked my car up, and it really didn't cost anything. Even better, it isn't screaming like a banshee anymore! (I wish I could say the same for whoever's sliming lizturtle's mouth.)
You even-more-disreputable-non-northern-carpetbaggers can get annoyed all you want, but Oklahoma isn't the south. Parts of Florida count, but that's only because they are really more south Georgia/Alabama. I would say draw a horizontal at Ocala. Anything south of that is a weird place that I don't want to claim.
And, in order to win at least one of you back over, I had sushi for lunch. I went with a big lunch of tuna, surf clam, squid, flying fish roe, and, in honor of today's topic, a spider roll.
I have once again decided that flying fish eggs is Pop Rocks for grownups. Well, for grown ups who like raw fish products.
LT: That eloquent description of the rather surly waitstaff was truely a description of her without regard to the status of the deepfryer. if she had broken it during my current fragile mental state i may be posting pictures of her disembodied head as we speak.
Diz: Thanks, like most things I attempt i failed to consistently update the ubuntu blog. As for ManMan, You know them?! you should drop a comment.. wanna contribute? and i've been meaning to go to the olde town tavern for a bit but it'd be a decent drive home.. and i've yet to be in the state to drive home from a tavern in any of my prior experiences..
Don't have the full details on bowling yet. I can confirm that it will be a commonwealth bowling alley, perhaps the one in falls church or alexandria (i think it is by Landmark???). I will call all intersted peeps as soon as i know the final details.
Sunshine - you could always take LMS out for dinner pre-bowling too...she is a fine lady and deserves to be taken out!! :)
Lunch is pathetic today, Kashi oatmeal...I am embarassed...
EQ, I am jealous of your lunch. Especially b/c I just had a sugar-free chocolate pudding. I want adult-fishy-pop-rocks. They're the best. But not those big ones, i.e. salmon roe. Those are just salty bags of fish-water. Or fishy bags of salt-water. Your choice. Bleah!
Once I ordered flying fish roe & they gave me salmon roe!!! I wasn't pissed until later though b/c I thought "What the hey, I've never had salmon roe before". Bleargh!!
Earthquake.
I was going to argue that the line you should draw across the Sunshine state should be at Lake Okeechobee, but then I remembered two things. First off the rural people betwixt Okala and the lake are wierd. really wierd. They make your stereotypical southerner look like a Manhattan Socialite by comparison. Second, the Rat lives there, and that fantasy town of Orlando can barely be considered part of reality, let alone the confederacy. So I withdraw my un-uttered arguement.
You should try to get that new employee to become an active OWFLer now. She has been a lurker for quite a while, but I can't get her to comment.
Oh, and I'm still chuckling about the GrandQuakes. That's funny for some reason.
i asked a friend who grew up in tulsa, OK about our question:
la choi: hey, do you consider oklahoma as part of the south? it's a debate going on in the lunch blog today.
e2thelos: NO. the south stops at lousiana.
Texas is it’s own entity.
Oklahoma is part of the bible belt/bread basket. Or, central US.
I have very strong feelings about this.
i rest my case.
Ok, ok, I concede that Oklahoma is not part of the south. BUT IT'S NOT NO NORTHERN CARPET-BAGGING STATE EITHER!!!! Which was my real point to begin with.
I had an uncle who lived in oklahoma and he owned llamas...does that help out at all???
and pot belly pigs...I can't believe I almost forgot about them. They got eaten by a neighbor's rottie though.
Was your uncle the guy in Napoleon Dynamite??
"Eat your slop, Sue!" or whatever her name was.
Aw, poor potbelly pig. That can't have been a fun death. I would much rather die in George Clooney's arms, being gently held as I slipped into the great hereafter . . . . That's how I imagine it happened with Max.
I'm surprised that you guys are even arguing over the North/South thing.
Just remember, the North won!
And the South keeps on putting off that "Rise Again" thing. Guess y'alls too busy eatin' grits and chasin' cousins.
Though I concede that the South is probably the superior deep-frying part of the country.
4:20!
D'oh!
WD, you just made me laugh again! What superior comedic timing!
If anyone's still around (our servers died this afternoon after a massive power loss caused by a squirel!), I'd be up for bowling.
GG, is that a joke? A squirrel brought down the guvmint agency responsible for energy-type stuff, etc?
I wish it was a joke.
That is awesome. Was the squirrel totally fried?
Post a Comment