An Informal Debate Staged by My Inner Voice

[constance]

Proposed (while driving to lunch): God, wouldn't it be great if there were a fast food restaurant that sold funnel cakes?

Pro: HELL YEAH.

Con: Yeah, fat girl, like you need more fried food and sugar in your life.

Pro: HELL YEAH.

Con: You are the reason why the world laughs at the American diet, you know.

Pro: HELL YEAH.

Con: *abandons argument in sheer disgust*

Pro: ROCK ON I AM THE GREATEST DEBATER IN THE WORLD. SONIC GET ON THAT OKAY.

Comments

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Oh, let them laugh--we didn't invent the deep-fried Mars Bar. I don't think we did, anyway.

Thank you, Jesus, for Wikipedia.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

An answer to both your question and mine (which was this: are they battered before they're fried?) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_fried_Mars_bar)

Re: Thank you, Jesus, for Wikipedia.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

I thought that was a Scottish thing, though I wasn't sure--but as that same article points out, we're responsible for the deep-fried Twinkie so I call it a dietary draw.

Re: Thank you, Jesus, for Wikipedia.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Yeah, man, from the looks of this, the Americans and the Scots could probably go one-upping each other all day in the War of the Things We're Totally Willing to Eat Deep-Fried!

Re: Thank you, Jesus, for Wikipedia.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Our national Scotch-Irish colonial heritage officially bites us in the ass! Arse! Whichever! Gimme some funnel cake, extra powdered sugar. Mmm.

Re: Thank you, Jesus, for Wikipedia.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*washes it down with large glass of whiskey/whisky*

[jossish.livejournal.com]

FUNNEL CAKE IS YUM

[tofty.livejournal.com]

I AGREE. :D

[soliloquia.livejournal.com]

Thank Jesus for Wikipedia twice over because it has just explained to me what exactly is a funnel cake (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funnel_cake). Ha! I definitely know the Finnish variant.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

And I didn't know until I read the wikipedia article that there was a Finnish equivalent! What an invaluable tool Wikipedia is, setting us straight on our deep-fried foods like a champ.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Someone on my friends list actually once posted a link to an article that listed every example around the world of a deep-fried-dough-sprinkled-with-sugar-or-syrup tasty treat--about sixty different nationalities and counting. I aim to try them all, though thus far Pueblo fry bread is still the hands-down winner.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

So fried dough is like the cinderella story type of food? Iiinteresting! It's too bad that someone somewhere is probably scarfing down cakes, sacrificing a waistline to anthropological research while she writes her doctoral thesis on this phenomenon. Because otherwise, you could have a wonderful second career ahead of you!

You know what would be fun? An international-fried-dough specialty bar. Like a beer bar, you know, where you can drink beers from all over the world and once you've drunk them all you get a t-shirt and your name on a plaque. You could have beignets one week and fry bread the next and tippaleipä the week after that, and when you finished--assuming you weren't dead of congestive heart failure by then--you'd be a hero.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

How bad is it that when I read your first comment about a "fried dough bar" I envisioned a rectangular fritter, i.e., a bar of fried dough?

I do think this would be a good pairing with my own theme eatery: the all dunking restaurant.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Yes! I feel that if fondue restaurants can succeed, our places will be able to succeed as well.

[isiscolo.livejournal.com]

Now I'm craving funnel cakes. Darn you!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

*smug*

my work here is done, ma'am.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

At New York street fairs they are given the blatant name of "Fried Dough." That Wikipedia article suggests that Fried Dough is yeast-based, but the New York version is eggy, just like a funnel cake. I've even eaten Fried Dough and Zeppole (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeppole) at the same fair.

Southwestern Fry Bread is pretty damn tasty, and it wins on versatility, since it may be served either sweet or savory, but I still dream sometimes about a treat I had at the Prater amusement park in Vienna many years ago. It was like an oversized raised donut, but instead of sugar, it was coated in garlic butter. I have no idea what it was called, but it was one of the best street foods I ever ate.

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, that sounds completely fabulous. I now feel like making a trip to Vienna just for that bread.

You know, though, I never met a fried bread I didn't like. Sopapillas and beignets and zeppole and elephant ears and good old doughnuts and I don't know what all else. And I've never had southestern fry-bread before, but clearly I must remedy that forthwith, and okay, my head is starting to spin. I wonder if I should be checking myself into some sort of twelve-step program. Is there one, do you think, for bread lovers? If not, there totally should be, damn it.

[amelia-eve.livejournal.com]

I wonder if I should be checking myself into some sort of twelve-step program. Is there one, do you think, for bread lovers?

I think it is called The South Beach Diet.

But I say, embrace your love of fried dough! Recognize your avocation and follow your dream! You know there must be a coffee table book in this.

AHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHA

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Or a fried-dough bar. (http://tofty.livejournal.com/67240.html?thread=598696#t598696)

[somniesperus.livejournal.com]

INDEED, SIR!

[tofty.livejournal.com]

Indeed, Sir?