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{{quote|"''Americans love to eat. They are fatally attracted to the slow-death of fast food. Hot dogs, corn dogs, triple bacon cheeseburgers, deep-fried, butter-dipped in pork fat and cheese-whiz, mayonnaise, soaked barbecue, mozzarella patty melts. Americans will eat anything. Anything. ANYTHING. Shit, if you were selling fried raccoons assholes on a stick, Americans would buy them and eat them! Especially if you were to dip them in butter and put a little salsa on them!''"
|'''[[George Carlin]]''' (not a fan himself), ''Life Is Worth Losing''}}
In the practice of deep-frying, your item of choice is submerged in hot oil or fat, where it cooks extremely quickly and gains a crispy, very tasty exterior. Soaking things in boiling-hot fat can make ''anything'' delicious. A common practice is to take something already delicious, loaded with fat and sugar, and deep-fry it '''[[Up to Eleven|FOR EXTRA FLAVOR]]'''. When this trope is pushed to absurd levels, it is always [[Played for Laughs]].
▲{{quote|"''Americans love to eat. They are fatally attracted to the slow-death of fast food. Hot dogs, corn dogs, triple bacon cheeseburgers, deep-fried, butter-dipped in pork fat and cheese-whiz, mayonnaise, soaked barbecue, mozzarella patty melts. Americans will eat anything. Anything. ANYTHING. Shit, if you were selling fried raccoons assholes on a stick, Americans would buy them and eat them! Especially if you were to dip them in butter and put a little salsa on them!''"|'''[[George Carlin]]''' (not a fan himself), ''Life Is Worth Losing''}}
▲In the practice of deep-frying, your item of choice is submerged in hot oil or fat, where it cooks extremely quickly and gains a crispy, very tasty exterior. Soaking things in boiling-hot fat can make ''anything'' delicious. A common practice is to take something already delicious, loaded with fat and sugar, and deep-fry it '''[[Up to Eleven|FOR EXTRA FLAVOR]]'''. When this trope is pushed to absurd levels, it is always [[Played for Laughs]].
In [[Real Life]], deep-frying is popular in America (particularly in the [[Deep South]]), Scotland, and parts of Asia. A possible reason for its success is because deep-fying is so much ''faster'' than other methods of cooking. Once the oil is hot enough, the food cooks in minutes. And since the heat makes a seal in the outer-layer of the food, the inside is not as greasy as one might expect (if it is, someone did something wrong), as opposed to pan frying.
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== [[Advertising]] ==
* A parody: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPkMUU9tUqk&feature=related Jones' Good Ass BBQ and Foot Massage] - "We'll fry anything you want for $5.99. And those that's friable or edible, we gonna make it deliciounable! We will fry parts of the chicken you didn't even know where friable! The beak! The feathers! We'll fry candy bars! And all that European stuff you don't normally eat (french bread, french fries, french onion dip), you can bring it down and we'll fry it for you!"
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Ode to Kirihito]]'' has a character who is a sideshow freak, 'the human tempura'. She covers herself in batter and is deep-fried, then with split-second timing is brought out again and bursts through the dough, alive. [[Training
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Watchmen (comics)|Watchmen]]'': In prison, Rorschach uses hot frying oil as a weapon in the cafeteria. He burns the other guy badly enough to kill him.
** [[I Am a Humanitarian|Am I the only one who got hungry for bacon after reading that?]] Nah. Of course not....
* Details are not stated, but [[Spider-Man]] villain and mob hitman Tombstone seems to have a very unhealthy diet, eating frequently at third-rate hash-houses in Harlem. A story in ''Spider-Man: Tangled Webs'' featuring him as a [[Villain Protagonist]] starts with him being arrested after suffering a heart attack as a result.
== [[Film]] ==
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* In the Irish movie ''The Van'', the main characters renovate a chipper (a food service truck) and go into business selling fried food. Although the battered and deep-fried [[Toilet Humor|used diaper]] may be presumed to be an inversion of this trope.
* In ''[[Shrek]] 2'', this appears to be the Fairy Godmother's standard way of dealing with stress.
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* Bill Forsyth's ''[[Comfort and Joy]]'', set in Glasgow, ends with protagonist Alan creating a truce between rival ice cream vendors (from the same family) by getting them to collaborate on selling ice cream fritters. Since only he knows the secret ingredient essential to making them, he gets to call the shots on the deal.
* ''[[Doomsday]]'' brings us deep-fried Sean Pertwee, courtesy of the Glaswegian punk cannibals.
* In ''[[
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▲* In ''[[Discworld/I Shall Wear Midnight|I Shall Wear Midnight]]'', both Tiffany and the Nac Mac Feegle themselves list one of their good points as the invention of the deep-fried stoat. Although the Feegles acknowledge that it's mostly a good point because it saved some other poor devil from inventing it. It's still probably better than a non-deep-fried stoat.
▲== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* On a Christmas episode of ''[[Men Behaving Badly]]'', Tony gets given a deep-fat fryer for Christmas. Over the course of the episode he deep-fries an array of unlikely foodstuffs, culminating in him deep-frying the telephone.
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' featured the Cornballer, one of the Bluth family's more unfortunate business ventures. A deep-fat fryer for making fried corn balls in the home, it was discontinued in the US because the device was scalding hot to the touch. It was still being sold in Mexico, where angry citizens imprisoned an escaped George Sr. after recognizing him from the [[Infomercial]] for it.
* Used brilliantly on ''[[Gilmore Girls]]'' in the episode with four thanksgivings. Sookie's husband Jackson deep-fried the turkey, then got drunk and began deep frying other things. As Sookie lamented that the only reason the mattresses were intact was that they wouldn't fit, a yell was heard in the background of: 'Deep-fried Shoe!' At which point she buried her face in her hands.
* In an episode of ''[[Farscape]]'', [[Fish Out of Water|Crichton]] doesn't even have the standard [[Food Pills|food cubes]] to eat, and so he decides to fry the little creatures that are used for brushing teeth. When told they aren't edible, Crichton says "You can eat anything if it's fried!" Unfortunately for him, [[Foreign Queasine|he's wrong.]]
* During one ''[[
* ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'': In one episode, Kenan and Kel are asked by a famous celebrity to hold on to her shirt that her grandmother knitted for her before she died. Three guesses as to what happens next.
* On "The Gunslinger" episode of ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'', Crow and Servo decided to deep fry the fan mail. When asked why, Servo responded with, "I'm not sure I understand the question..."
** Dr. Forrester deep fried ''Frank'' as a punishment.
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* Naturally, ''[[Good Eats]]'' has done several episodes on the subject of frying. In the first dedicated episode, ''Fry Hard'', Alton makes fish and chips in an attempt to silence his busybody sister Marsha, who is (at the moment) on an anti-fat crusade, by pointing out that frying is only unhealthy if you do it wrong.
* In the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Eleventh Hour", the [[The Nth Doctor|newly-regenerated]] Eleventh Doctor finds almost everything in young Amelia Pond's fridge revolting to his new taste buds. He retorts to her "[[National Stereotypes|You're Scottish! Fry something!]]"
* In a ''[[Mad TV]]'' parody of [[Aaron Spelling]] [[Action Girl]] shows, a trio of fast-food workers find a bomb in their restaurant. So one of the girls dunks the bomb in batter and deep-fries it, and it explodes harmlessly within the breading shell. The audience cheers.
▲== [[Manga]] ==
▲* [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Ode to Kirihito]]'' has a character who is a sideshow freak, 'the human tempura'. She covers herself in batter and is deep-fried, then with split-second timing is brought out again and bursts through the dough, alive. [[Training From Hell|Her training was hell]] and normal circuses won't take her because her act is too depraved. {{spoiler|She ultimately tragically dies doing this with an improvised spoon to make money.}} Apparently she didn't realize that her basic tumbling talents were much safer and easier and just as likely to net some dough performing on the street.
== [[Music]] ==
* The [[Danielson]] song "Lil Norge" briefly contrasts the culinary preferences of Norway and the US:
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''There's no limit to what you fry,
''or my oil money buy. }}
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* The eponymous feline in ''[[Garfield]]'' certainly embodies this. In fact, [http://garfield.nfshost.com/1979/09/23/ one of his slogans is "If it ain't deep-fried, it ain't worth eating"]{{Dead link}}.
* A fried variant occurs in [https://web.archive.org/web/20130615132512/http://www.babyblues.com/archive/index.php?GoToDay=2003-07-19 this] "[[Baby Blues]]" strip.
== [[Recorded and Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* [[George Carlin]]'s disgust with Fat America, as seen in the Trope quote above.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* The
* From ''
== [[Web Animation]] ==
* Even being shoved into his own donut fryer doesn't stop [[Homestar Runner]] from singing its praises.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
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** Salt was a clear contender, and may have won without the intervention of Bun-bun.
* ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]'': [http://drmcninja.com/archives/comic/0p9 Your friend is a bit too crispy and delicious to talk now.]
== [[Web Original]] ==
* [http://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-807 Heart Attack on a Plate.]
* [[EPICMEALTIME]] deepfries a lot of things in beer batter.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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** Francine developed something of an obsession with frying stuff in that episode to the point that she appeared borderline insane. She was planning on deep frying a live chick, and later she takes Steve's new bunny right out of his hands and cheerily declares that "I'm gonna pop you right in the fryer!"
* In ''[[The Simpsons]]'', when Moe's becomes a family-friendly TGI Friday's-type restaurant, he purchases a deep-fryer which deep fries ''everything'', including champagne bottles.
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'''Homer:''' Forty seconds? But I want it now! }}
** In another ''Simpsons'' episode, Homer ordered from a fast food drive-thru and got everything deep fried - including the bag and a diet Coke.
** Another had Homer deep-fry his shirt. Even clothing's better deep fried!
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'''Marge:''' I didn't say they couldn't, I said ''you shouldn't''. }}
* In ''[[The Replacements]]'', when Todd and Riely run off and join the carnival, Riely ends up running the deep fry anything stands. The things she gets handed to deep fry includes roadkill and a football.
* In one ''[[King of the Hill]]'' episode, Bill and Boomhauer get a deep fryer, and use it on lots of things, including an already deep-fried chicken leg.
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* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'' had a cartoon about "Billy the Beef Tallow Boy," who deep-fried everything that was brought before him, even inedible objects like a car and a pair of shoes.
* ''[[SpongeBob SquarePants]]'' - Squeaky Boots: When Spongebob's new squeaky boots began to drive Mr. Crabs crazy, he steals them, dumps them in frying oil, and eats them in a bout of insanity.
** And a more recent episode features an escalating grease-war between Krabs and Plankton.
* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' - during a barbecue, Shake and Carl deepfry an ENTIRE cow injected with cheese in its udders and force fed bacon and ranch dressing before it died.
== [[Real Life]] ==
* French fries.
* Fried ice cream. For those wondering how it's possible: first you bread a ball of ice cream, and then there's two ways to fry it. There's the "fry it very quickly" method or the "freeze rock-solid, then fry almost as quickly" method. Generally not recommended for the inexperienced chef.
* [http://listsgalore.blogspot.com/2008/08/25-awesome-foods-you-never-knew-could.html 25 foods you didn't know could be deep fried!] Includes chocolate chip cookie dough, pop tarts, and the cheeseburger in the picture above.
* Deep-fried Twinkies. ''Yes.''
* Fried Oreos. Oh my goodness, yes.
** This troper sees your fried Oreos and raises you fried Reese cups.
* There was a candy/concession store in London or something that not only did Twinkies, but ''everything else.''
** As of 2021 there are [[media:FryMeUp.jpg|dozens of such shops]] to be found up and down the [[Joisey|Jersey Shore]]. Deep friend Oreos? Pedestrian. Deep fried pickles? Everyday fare. Fried bananas Foster bites? Okay, now you've got us interested. [[media:Deep fried.jpg|Deep-fried chocolate covered bacon-wrapped Twinkies?]] A dozen, my good man, and make it snappy!
* [[wikipedia:Deep fried turkey|Deep fried turkey]] for Thanksgiving! (Profoundly dangerous, but incredibly good. [[Good Eats|Alton Brown]] once built a derrick to make the entire procedure somewhat safe.)
** It's not that dangerous if you cook it outside, follow all the safety tips (Alton Brown's method may seem extreme, but it isn't that much work considering what that oil can do), and keep a fire extinguisher on hand. And unlike most of the examples here, Fried Turkey is as healthy as it is delicious (it's not battered, so little to no grease is absorbed during cooking)!
** [[William Shatner]] and State Farm presents a [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYkRF_FmD40 PSA] on safe
* Scotland brings us the [[wikipedia:Fried mars bar|fried Mars Bar]] as well as deep-fried pizza. Scotland also has fast food venues which offer to deep fry anything you want.
* [[wikipedia:Fried Coke|Deep-fried Coca-cola?]]
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* County fairs are good places to find fried foods, and often they will have something different every year, such as deep-fried snickers bars or pickles.
** From ''[[Dave Barry]]'s Only Travel Guide You'll Ever Need'', describing the advantages of vacationing in the US:
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*** "Fried dough" likely refers to funnel
**** Fried dough is basically funnel cake without the funnel. A slight difference, but a difference nonetheless, and some individuals in New England will proceed to [[Gannon Banned|Gannon Ban]] you if you mistake their fried dough for funnel cake or vice versa.
** Seen at a state fair: Deep-Fried Key Lime Pie. [[X on a Stick|On A Stick]]. [[Flat What|What]].
* Chimichangas, i.e. deep fried burritos.
* [[Refuge in Audacity|To add insult to an injury]], [[wikipedia:Chicken Kiev|Chicken Kiev]]. If you discount the chicken, it's basically a [[Up to Eleven|deep-fried butter]]. With herbs, though. Everything's healthier with herbs.
** [https://web.archive.org/web/20101006001544/http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/32665106/ns/today-foodwine
* While deep-fried Mars bar was a joke item that gained popularity, South East Asians are very familiar with fried bananas as a snack item.
** Fried bananas are sometimes found in Brazilian restaurants, too.
** And a variety of countries in Latin America have fried plantain.
*** ''Platanos'' with sour cream and refried beans is one of the more bizarre - not to mention delicious - aspects of Central American cuisine.
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** That would be the State Fair of Texas, and it's been done. At this same fair.
* While the whole dish wasn't deep-fried, a local fair vendor sold a doughnut chicken sandwich. Yes, a deep-fried chicken breast (and cheese!) sandwiched between a deep-fried doughnut of your choice (jelly-filled if you so desire).
* The (now defunct) website This is Why You're Fat (examples include: Double Bypass Burger - burger topped with five slices of bacon, four slices of cheese, two fried eggs, mayo, lettuce, tomato, and onion between two buns made up of two grilled-cheese
* This is not just an American
* Tempura makes
* A restaurant in Brooklyn owned by a Brit called the Chip Shop will fry up anything you want. No, seriously. The [https://web.archive.org/web/20120322160352/http://www.chipshopnyc.com/images/TakeoutMenuP2.jpg takeout menu] includes deep-fried pizza.
* Can we fry this page?
** Dear, of course you can. Now let's go!
** Print the page out first, deep frying your computer might void its warranty.
* [[wikipedia:Panzarotti|The panzarotti]], which is essentially a deep-fried calzone, and a perennial favorite in [[Joisey|South Jersey]].
* Pretty much every culture has some variant of deep fried ''fat'' as a way to make use of the stuff they'd usually throw away. The south is the only place where people who don't have to still eat the stuff.
* Indian Fry Bread. Essentially a flat, plate sized donut. It can be served as a dinner with chili or stew on top, or a desert with powdered sugar and/or honey. Mexican Sopapilla is similar, but puffy so you put the topping on the inside.
** Outside the American Southwest, this is known as an elephant ear.
** In several Canadian reserves you can encounter fried bannock (a flat bread similar to scones that's made primarily of lard) Bannock Pops (Bannock stuffed with seasoned ground beef and sometimes potatoes and deep fried) and hound dogs (hot dogs wrapped in bannock and deep fried). All of these are delicious and they're all created by people who have some of the worst rates of diabetes and heart disease in the world.
* On the Cooking Network program "David Rocco's La Dolce Vita", David Rocco explains that a common Italian snack is a "fried pizza" which involves taking individual-sized portions of pizza dough and frying them in a skillet until they're crispy,
** It's actually rather more popular in Scotland, which makes sense (the Deep South's obsession with frying everything comes from the Scottish origins of many if not most ancestral Southerners).
* [http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7973944/Deep-fried-beer-invented-in-Texas.html Deep Fried BEER]. Unquestionably this is humankind's [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]].
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** Hey, if you're gonna eat a chicken head at all, it may as well be a deep-fried one.
* Deep fried cheesecake, which may or may not be coated in chocolate and come with whip cream.
* This troper's college had a habit of enticing college kids to eat vegetables by deep-frying them in batter. Usually
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