Fry me for an oyster

December 9, 2004 11:28 AM

Fried Beyond Belief: You're disgusting. But why shouldn't you be? If Elvis were on the blue today, WWES?
posted by ewkpates (18 comments total)

You, my friend, have just made my day. I immediately began searching for fried pizza recipes. Unfortunately, I came across this. A friend of Mrs. Grateful once said, and I quote, "Well, what is pizza without tuna?"
posted by grateful at 12:00 PM on December 9, 2004

I have two words for you: cod cheeks.
posted by 327.ca at 12:04 PM on December 9, 2004

Well, that pizza freaks me out, but I just had some fried pickles this week, and damn weren't they tasty!
posted by lumpenprole at 12:39 PM on December 9, 2004

> Well, that pizza freaks me out,

What's so freakish about it? It's not that they're deep frying the whole thing or anything like that.

I don't do much fried food, but I'd be willing to give it a try (sans tuna.)
posted by NewBornHippy at 12:59 PM on December 9, 2004

oh my god, I know that guy who's eating chips! *waves*
posted by dabitch at 1:08 PM on December 9, 2004

How about mac and cheese pizza?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:17 PM on December 9, 2004

Or perhaps Thai pizza? Pizza with eggs and salami? White claim pizza? How about ham, curry, and banana pizza?
posted by monju_bosatsu at 1:21 PM on December 9, 2004

Fried pickles are good, oddly enough. Also surprisingly good deep fried: large green olives stuffed with jalepenos and cheese and fried. (To be found at a pub around the corner from my house.) Not so good: my friend Eric's special burger: Tilamook cheddar cheese sandwiched between two patties of hamburger mixed with onions and spicy Italian sausage, the edges wrapped in bacon and the whole thing breaded and deep fried. Gack.

And I shudder when I even think the words "cod cheeks".
posted by Specklet at 1:27 PM on December 9, 2004

And I shudder when I even think the words "cod cheeks".

Brings to mind a cod with rosy red apple cheeks, a sailor's cap, and blonde sausage curls, licking a big red lollipop.
posted by Sticherbeast at 1:31 PM on December 9, 2004

Brings to mind a cod with rosy red apple cheeks, a sailor's cap, and blonde sausage curls, licking a big red lollipop.

Does it now? Hmmmm.
posted by _sirmissalot_ at 1:40 PM on December 9, 2004

I always thought that housewife style was a little disturbing.
posted by pepcorn at 1:58 PM on December 9, 2004

One of my best memories of my time is Glasgow was walking down to the chip shop getting fish and chips for 30 to back to the dorms to watch Rangers v. Celtic. A group of drunken Scottish students overdosing on beer, fat, and salt while breaking into fights every 5 minutes. I loved that time in my life.
posted by ..ooOOoo....ooOOoo.. at 2:10 PM on December 9, 2004

I had a friend (also a New Zealander) who was working on an oil rig off Aberdeen. First night off after a 90 day stint at sea, walks into a fast food place. Sees pizza on the menu, thinks "yum!" and orders it. Watches in disbelief as the staff remove a frozen pizza from a deepfreeze, batter it and whack it in the frier. He says it was disgusting.

My daughter persuaded me to order a deep-fried Mars bar, on the grounds that I make her eat things she doesn't think she we would like. It was all right, but the deepfrying intensified the sweetness so that I could only manage about two bites.

Cod cheeks? On most big fish, the cheeks are the best part. If you throw the head away, you don't know what you're missing.
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 2:18 PM on December 9, 2004

It's just... do you have to call them "cheeks"?
posted by Specklet at 2:23 PM on December 9, 2004

Cod cheeks are great. But I'm generally not a fan of batter-fried anything, so when I cook them I generally will poach them in a white wine court boullion.

Sure, I'll batter and fry some things, but I like to be able to control the seasoning in the batter as well as the amount. There's almost nothing worse than going out for fish and chips and ending up with about two ounces of fish in six ounces of rubbery tasteless batter.

(I'm a cod-and-chips man, by the by, as opposed to halibut, which I consider too firm to waste in a fryer.)
posted by solid-one-love at 3:25 PM on December 9, 2004

Ah, I see.

Fish don't have buttocks, my friend. Otherwise the market would ring to cries of:

Fish-arse! Git yore luvverly fish-arse here! Salty an' clammy an' a-fresh from the sea! Fish-aaaaaarse!

*ahem*
posted by i_am_joe's_spleen at 3:36 PM on December 9, 2004

Have never tried (or even heard of, until now) deep-fried pizza, but I'm reminded of my first visit to a pizza buffet at Pizzaland in Edinburgh. Hubby and I were starving, and craving some home-style food (mind you, we'd tried and enjoyed haggis and neeps and tatties), so when we saw that "all you can eat" sign, we pictured the buffet we get here at Pizza Hut and joined the queue. What a difference an ocean makes..."buffet" in this case was a server that slid two slices of pizza onto your plate and sent you on your way. She only had two types of pizza to choose from at a time, and thus we ended up with corn and pepperoni. If you wanted seconds, you had to get back in line (and pray that the corn pizza had run out).
posted by Oriole Adams at 11:02 PM on December 9, 2004

Deep fried pizza & chips, (a pizza supper as we Glaswegians call it) is only the beginning. Undoubtedly in the same chip shop, the author could also have bought a "pie supper", which is a steak pie (deep fried of course) with chips.

Then there are the more subtle dishes. "Mars Bar supper" can be found in several chippies in Glasgow, and yes it is a deep fried battered Mars bar and chips. Some chip shops will fry anything of choice from the sweet counter. Snickers supper, Bounty supper and even Opal Fruit supper can all be found in the right chippie.
posted by bap98189 at 2:55 AM on December 10, 2004