North Carolina... don't know if there's a melting pot over there or not. I've always live in cities on the East and West coast, where you can find things from most countries. Scotty may be in an isolated area. :)
In the Southern States they tend to deep-fry everything and/or put it on a stick.
Someone the missus knows had to work down there for a while and she posted pictures from a carnival with all sorts of weird food stands with deep fried everything-you-can-think-of stuck on a stick.. Pretty creepy.
They also like to deep-fry turkeys instead of doing them in the oven, and have special high-volume fryers for this purpose. Apparently the emergency rooms down there are always full of burn victims around Thanksgiving and Christmas, mostly from people who didn't bother to defrost the Turkey before throwing it in the boiling oil.. :-o
In the Southern States they tend to deep-fry everything and/or put it on a stick.
Much like Middlesbrough and Newcastle area.
I remember buying fish cake from a chippy up there...which already had the bread crumb coating on it but they also felt the need to batter and fry it too!, they also had battered burgers, battered sausage rolls..I'm guessing if I'd have asked they'd have battered me up a cheese and onion pie.
In the Southern States they tend to deep-fry everything and/or put it on a stick
I ate some deep fried Alligator when I was last visiting the Southern States, it wasn't bad, didn't taste at all like I expected, I think that was Florida or Alabama? Not sure which? We were staying somewhere on the Florala line, so it could've been either state?
Last time I was in NC though I had some fried chicken at a posh(ish) restaurant, and it was f**king horrible. I have no idea if it was cos' it was a poncey(ish) place and they had no idea how to cook scummy food? Or if the chef was just a numnuts? But the chicken was like leather on the top layer, the batter was a fullblown grease sponge, and even though it was volcano hot I'm sure it was still bloody when I bit it? Needless to say that was the most disappointing $29 fried chicken ever. I'll stick to buying cheap scummy sh*t for $4
I remember buying fish cake from a chippy up there...which already had the bread crumb coating on it but they also felt the need to batter and fry it too!, they also had battered burgers, battered sausage rolls..I'm guessing if I'd have asked they'd have battered me up a cheese and onion pie.
Not a chippy, but there was a caf? in toon that deep fried everything because their hotplates went on the fritz. I'm pretty sure they used to deep fry the pies as well, and the place was so greasy the fruit they had on the counter had a layer of oil or fat on it when you picked it up.
I ate there once after a night out being proper spackered and falling over and ripping my hand open on some gravel on the way home. After spending a good 3 or 4 hours in the hospital having my hand cleaned and patched up me and my mate decided to go eat there since it was about 7am.
Not a chippy, but there was a caf? in toon that deep fried everything because their hotplates went on the fritz. I'm pretty sure they used to deep fry the pies as well, and the place was so greasy the fruit they had on the counter had a layer of oil or fat on it when you picked it up.
I ate there once after a night out being proper spackered and falling over and ripping my hand open on some gravel on the way home. After spending a good 3 or 4 hours in the hospital having my hand cleaned and patched up me and my mate decided to go eat there since it was about 7am.
It was OK, but yes everything deep fried.
Sounds like the kind of place i'd end up at when totally hammered out of my tits!:smile:
Dunno if I've already mentioned it but I've found a couple of chip shops that will deep fry their own chips in batter. One is in Aldershot. The other was when I was at the retro revival in Wolverhampton. Something of a Death-by-Burger - a battered burger in a bun with salad and burger sauce, with a side order of battered chips. I think finishing either would have probably killed me. And this was before someone decided we were all going for a curry. Then it was a ridiculously long wait to get served, so I was glad to have had something to eat.
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I do believe a thorough *HAR HAR HAR* is in order, hmmm, yes, what say.
https://www.facebook.com/FrydaysAndSundaes
Have you gone there, and if so, what was it like?
Not yet, but I will.
Someone the missus knows had to work down there for a while and she posted pictures from a carnival with all sorts of weird food stands with deep fried everything-you-can-think-of stuck on a stick.. Pretty creepy.
They also like to deep-fry turkeys instead of doing them in the oven, and have special high-volume fryers for this purpose. Apparently the emergency rooms down there are always full of burn victims around Thanksgiving and Christmas, mostly from people who didn't bother to defrost the Turkey before throwing it in the boiling oil.. :-o
Much like Middlesbrough and Newcastle area.
I remember buying fish cake from a chippy up there...which already had the bread crumb coating on it but they also felt the need to batter and fry it too!, they also had battered burgers, battered sausage rolls..I'm guessing if I'd have asked they'd have battered me up a cheese and onion pie.
I ate some deep fried Alligator when I was last visiting the Southern States, it wasn't bad, didn't taste at all like I expected, I think that was Florida or Alabama? Not sure which? We were staying somewhere on the Florala line, so it could've been either state?
Last time I was in NC though I had some fried chicken at a posh(ish) restaurant, and it was f**king horrible. I have no idea if it was cos' it was a poncey(ish) place and they had no idea how to cook scummy food? Or if the chef was just a numnuts? But the chicken was like leather on the top layer, the batter was a fullblown grease sponge, and even though it was volcano hot I'm sure it was still bloody when I bit it? Needless to say that was the most disappointing $29 fried chicken ever. I'll stick to buying cheap scummy sh*t for $4
Not a chippy, but there was a caf? in toon that deep fried everything because their hotplates went on the fritz. I'm pretty sure they used to deep fry the pies as well, and the place was so greasy the fruit they had on the counter had a layer of oil or fat on it when you picked it up.
I ate there once after a night out being proper spackered and falling over and ripping my hand open on some gravel on the way home. After spending a good 3 or 4 hours in the hospital having my hand cleaned and patched up me and my mate decided to go eat there since it was about 7am.
It was OK, but yes everything deep fried.
Sounds like the kind of place i'd end up at when totally hammered out of my tits!:smile:
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