March 18, 2005

Fried dough around the world! Who doesn't like fried dough? Combined with a very cheesy website?
posted by goofyfoot 19 years ago
  • many dough-dipped fried bananas to you!!! but wait, i don't see... ELEPHANT EARS! aka funnel cakes.
  • How might funnel cakes be represented monkey-wise?
  • goofy, look! fried banana! looks like it's been rolled in dough, close enough.
  • Holy shit. Funnel cakes. Surely there's a fair going on somewhere...
  • Toronto Monkeys can enjoy the awesome deliciousness and scrumptiousness of pan fried cookie dough at Dangerous Dan's, home of the Coronary Burger, the Quadruple C, and the best poutine in Toronto. Which doesn't say much, but it is really good.
  • Pas des queues de castor? Quel horreur!
  • You know, it's coming up on fair season! I love all that. The prize pigs, horseracing, floral arrangements, cakes, games of chance, ferris wheel.. .
  • Beignets are much better than donuts, imo. Especially when consumed in Jackson Square...
  • Oh, and there's something absolutely perfect and beautiful about the State Fair Corndog™ that is unmatched in unhealthy cuisine. I hate the store-bought microwaveable corndogs, and usually can't choke down a frankfurter without thinking of all the odd parts in it ("Hmmmph. Think I see a pecker right there..."), but Fairground corndogs are different, somehow. I can't leave the fair without having wolfed at least one. The perfect poisonous treat. :)
  • "Bannock means fried dough",,I always wondered why they named a certain street here, Bannock.
  • if you've got a hankering for traveling fair food/atmosphere, check out this site--it's the source of one of the fried dough pictures and looks to be the official site of a ride/food vendor for fairs. now I'm really hungry.
  • best thing i ever had fried at a fair: peaches. dipped in batter, fried, the fruit kind of melts and leaves this heavenly peachy goo... AND if that isn't enough they give you creamy frosting to dip it in. ahhhhhhhhhhhhh.
  • Bannock is a Scottish word for an oatcake, a flattish object of oatmeal/oatflour with perhaps some barley flour mixed in. Bannocks don't rise; they are dry and somewhat hard, being motre like a flatbread.. Bannocks once were cooked on griddles or hot stones, but now they are often baked in an over. Never in my experience are bannocks fried, nor are they what ye'd call sweet, though some may spread a bit o' butter or honey or such on 'em. They are good eaten plain, though. Some Native American friends who live in the southwestern US cook something called frybread which seems more similar to a fried cake-type donut than anything else, though not nearly so sweet as a donut. Has to be eaten hot, otherwise it turns quite tough.
  • Yeah, so hungry now. Willing even to eat Duncan Donuts, though I know it will be nothing like the beauty on this site. )s dipped in batter - yum! Hey, I can buy bananas, and make batter...
  • Another worldwide delectable is the fabulous dumpling.
  • Banana-batter just sounds so...dirty...
  • Oh, now I want Oliebollen. Evil. Damn.
  • Capt. Renault, queues de castor not to be confused with these
  • I actually had one last week, islander -- they have a stand set up at the Toronto Zoo, right beside the Polar Bears. It was a bit sad, though. They were out of maple syrup, and all kinds of jams. My chocolate and hazelnut topping proved to be plain Nutella. But I did get some nice hot-oil-burn action happening on my tongue, so it wasn't a complete bust...
  • Ain't nothin' wrong with Nutella. When I was in Rome I had some Nutella crepes at a little cafe across the street from the Vatican that were, in a word, sinful. It's my theory that these devilish crepes are what killed the Pope. Or...um...will have killed him...
  • Oh -- don't get me wrong -- ain't nuthin' wrong with Nutella. I just got a little excited by the chocolate and hazelnut topping. Which proved to be Nutella. A sudden change in mental pictures, that's all. And as a topping for queues de castor, it was a little lacking. The hot oil in the tail waged war with the oil in the Nutella, leading to separation and breakdown of the Nutella into its distinct components. Got a little gross. But the Polar Bears seemed to enjoy them nevertheless.
  • Zeppole (little fried dough dumplings, 6 in a greasy paper bag), at the Giglio festival in Brooklyn, or Elephant Ears on my grandmothers porch, in Indiana. mmmmmmm.
  • This is a slight derail I'll admit, but when I went searching for a fried money link (fried dough pun - ha ha) I found this bit of horrifying news. Gaaaah!
  • Oh, and back ontopic: Malaysians prefer cucur udang and goreng pisang.
  • I loves teh fried doh! Here's a picture of me eating a funnel cake on the Santa Cruz beach boardwalk circa 1999! That's my husband spooning his meat.
  • DO YOU PEOPLE HAVE NO PITY? Between this tread and the pie one, I now want, all at once: a rhubarb pie (bananas or strawberries adentro are good.) 2 old-fashioned donuts, no syrup or icing. 3 nice crullers. 4 churros. 5 sopaipillas ( dusted in cinnamon.) 6 good, juicy pot stickers. 7 dumplings (as in chicken and...) 8 tamales (4 each pork and red chile and cheese and green chile. Didn't see tamales mentioned anywhere, but they're dumplings in their own right.) 9 canoli. 10 lumpia (but only those that the local Filipino church used to sell.) 11 shu mai. 12 har gow. So, the salmon and leek omelet I'm making tonight will not fill this need.
  • How are you going to be able to eat nine cannoli?
  • It's obvious. One cannoli for you and one each for the eight midgets. (man, I have to explain everything around here)
  • I'm still wanting to try the deep fried Twinkies. My silly little county fair never has them.
  • 13 million for fried penis? Not enough. My wang is worth far more than that.
  • Deep Fried Twinkies are good - you can make them yourself at home, if you have a good strong pan that that is deep and wide. I made them at a friends' party - he found the recipe on the internet, but I was the only one not afraid of the splattering fat (I didn't get burned - they were cooking wimps).
  • Where is the love for the Scandinavian fried breads of my youth?
  • Those sound yummy, grover96 - I wish there were pictures.
  • Do you guys not get Indian tacos at your fairs? I am so sad for you.
  • grover...thanks! I once made rosettes in high school home ec. and loved them. Last year I managed to find a used set of the irons, but had never bothered to track down a recipe. I shall now have to get them out and try that recipe. I am assuming that is your personally recommended one, of course. I shall haunt you if they don't come out right.
  • Coke in rock form? What? Mmm... Addictilicious...