Dis is da BIG ONE!
Posted on 09/05/2006 9:55:11 AM PDT by Millee
There are fried Twinkies and even fried candy bars.
Now, vendor Abel Gonzales Jr. has come up with a new artery-clogging concoction for the State Fair of Texas. It's Fried Coke.
Gonzales deep-fries Coca-Cola flavored batter. He then drizzles Coke fountain syrup on it. The Fried Coke is topped with whipped cream, cinnamon sugar and a cherry. Gonzales said the Fried Coke came about just from thinking aloud.
Gonzales' diet-buster wins the creativity honor at Big Tex Choice Awards.
Judges for the second annual Big Tex Choice Awards Contest chose Shirley London's Fried Praline Perfection as the tastiest fried delicacy.
The two won out among 26 entries such as fried macaroni and cheese and a deep-fried cosmopolitan.
London said she came up with the fried pralines idea after buying pralines at the fair last year. She plans to sell the pralines alongside fried marshmallows.
The fair begins Sept. 29.
Deep fried alcohol. Sounds like heaven on earth!
fried macaroni and cheese
mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Dis is da BIG ONE!
Fried shrimp, fried marshmellows, fried Co'Cola, fried pralines....
Have you ever noticed how mac & cheese coagulates in the fridge? I bet they take a hunk of chilled m & c, batter it, and fry it. American ingenuity at its most delicious!
The fried stuff has been gettiing a lot of attention at the Texas State Fair the past few years so now it's gotten to the point that idiots will try to fry up anything.
Make it Deep Fried Diet Coke and I am in...after all, I have to watch what I eat.
ROFL!!! A disciplined man, I like that! ;o)
Deep-Fried BEER.
GAG! Excuse me..... I'll be right back......
I'd eat it (once).
It's all about the self-sacrifice, which is why JRios gets ALL the chicks.
I do?? LOL
Smooches hun,
ya know ya do :)
:)
What can I say...must be that Puerto Rican man thing...so to speak.
Wait, that comes out wrong...
Both sentences sound odd :)
I wouldn't touch those sentences with a 10-ft pole...no, wait!
Then what, give it back?
Texas' food on a stick obsession ping.
Sounds like it needs more bacon but that's probably just me.
> Make it Deep Fried Diet Coke...
I was thinking more like a Deep Fried Rum & Coke. Yum!
I can't say I would have done any differently. :)
It sounds OBSCENELY good!
Of course, everything sounds good to me now. I feel like Scarlett O'Hara in that scene where she's on her honeymoon with Rhett and eating everything in sight.
It needs more cowbell...deep fried!
Or deep fried pina coladas for the ladies...
LOL! Welcome home!
I've had it before...little gas station up in the Smokies along I-40 has it. Mmm mmm!
**Freeper Kitchen Ping***
uh... mmmm... yummy?
Sounds like "Coronary On A Stick" to me! :)
Not having been to the Fair this year, or anywhere where this is served, I tried to imagine what it would taste like.
To begin with, what is "coke-flavored batter"? How would something made with flour and eggs taste like a thin liquid cola drink?
It might "suggest" the taste of Coca-Cola, but I doubt it tastes just like it!
OTOH, I love the idea of the coke syrup on top. All in all, I believe "Deep-Fried Dr. Pepper" would be a much, much tastier snack - all that plum/cherry flavor. Cola is just, well, cola.
That's entirely do-able. I use beer batter for practically everything I fry. Then again, I don't fry much anymore. But, when I do ... there is a honey beer that's quite exceptional for batter-making.
Haven't tasted it by itself and won't, so can't vouch for its drinking quality.
TGI Fridays has a new appetizer - deep fried mac and cheese. I love mac and cheese and I love fried food but I don't know about this combination....
Fried dill pickles dipped in ranch dressing. yummmmm
Mmmm - sounds like it would taste like the wonderful brown burnt part of the cheese on cafeteria mac & cheese, but lots of it!
Yesssss, love 'em.
OK - I just saw a demo of the recipe for the deep-fried Coca-Cola on our local morning news. (Let me say I still think Fried Dr. Pepper would be much better.)
They started with funnel cake mix from the grocery store. They used the one you've probably seen with the little Pennsylvania Dutch motif on the logo - don't know the brand and probably doesn't matter.
You make up the funnel cake mix per the instructions, except that you use regular Coca-Cola in place of all the water.
Then you heat your oil or crisco for deep-frying and you make funnel cakes like normal, using a funnel to swirl the batter into the grease, around in a spiral, then back and forth to make the sort of latticework pattern.
Instead of using Coke fountain syrup, they made the syrup themselves. To make the syrup, you use the rest of the 2-liter bottle of Coke and heat it in a pot on the stove to reduce it, like making a wine reduction (boil it down to where it's syrupy; not too high heat, though, so it won't crystallize or harden).
You pour hot syrup over each hot funnel cake right out of the fryer, then sprinkle with powdered sugar and cinnamon, also coconut if desired.
They didn't add whipped cream or a cherry like the contest winner, but I would. Unless it were Dr. Pepper, because you wouldn't need the cherry, since it would taste like something already.
I love good kosher dill pickles but deep fried? I don't know about that.... (And I love Ranch Dressing so much I could practically drink it straight from the bottle.)
I've got it!
Fried crisco, it's perfect!
Sure! They can fry ice cream, why not big frozen blobs of Crisco? Maybe butter-flavored Crisco would be best.
They're usually little hamburger dill slices, battered and fried - individually - not big spears. Although, I'm sure they serve fried pickle spears *somewhere*!
I heard TGIF's serves batter-fried green beans now, too.
WhoooOOOooo!
If it ain't fat, it ain't food!
Fried pickles have the consistency of fried zucchini - they really are good. My speciality is fried jalapenos.....
What say y'all?
It's not New Coke is it?
Now I could see this with a Jolt Cola or a Dr.Pepper.
Twice the caffeine, and fourteen times the sugar of your
regular desert.
Mmmmmm! Do you stuff them? Cheddar, Monterey Jack or cream cheese? If you use sausage on the outside (along with cheese and Bisquick), we call those Armadillo Eggs!
I use creme cheese and bacon when I grill them, but for frying I use a jar of sliced jalapenos, drained, battered and fried.....They are pretty good!
Frying pickles takes the pucker out. You almost can't taste the pickled part. Try it next time you see it on the menu. Our grandson went through a phase when he was about 2 or so. He would dunk everything he could get his hands on in ranch and even just his fingers if he was out of dunking stuff. LOLL I told our daughter to see if he could be a "spokesman" for ranch dressing.
Oooh, I would like those, either way. I just can't eat real "hot" anymore, because I'm out of practice - so I always like to use pickled nacho slices, then the heat is more predictable, for *me*. Yummmm. Now I want some!
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