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

[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.