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**Grey Templar**

Monster Rain wrote:
It would have to be pretty spectacular to beat tempura bacon.

Featherweight

**Monster Rain**

Have you had tempura bacon?

It's not better than sex, but it's in my top five favorite things on earth.

**Grey Templar**

I just fail to see the difference between it and bacon thats been battered and deep fried(which I have had)

It was good, just not amazing. Its kinda Vanilla if you know what I mean.

**Ardaric_Vaanes**

More deep fried stuff, as if deep fried snickers and ever beer weren't bad enough...

**reds8n**

Frazzled wrote:
Monster Rain wrote:
I'm noticing that once a year there's news out of Texas about someone deep-frying something or other.

Must be the state fair. They'd deep fry a baby if someone asked them to there. Once you hit deep fried ice cream and dee fried root beer you've pretty much run the board already.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024999/Deep-fried-butter-goes-sale-Iowa-State-Fair.html

There is also, apparently, a deep fried coca cola recipe too ...

http://athens.kltv.com/news/events/215281-which-deep-fried-fair-delicacy-will-win-heart-big-tex

The State Fair of Texas, also known as "the fried food capital of Texas," will announce the winners of the Big Tex Choice Awards for 2013 on Monday, September 2. This award goes to the most decadent, unusual, and delicious fried food submitted in the yearly contest.

Most folks' number one reason to attend the state fair is the exciting rides, but a close second is clearly the food. In years past, the winners of the Big Tex Choice Awards Contest have included fried Coke, deep fried latte, deep fried butter, and in 2012, a fried bacon cinnamon roll. What will state fair attendees want to eat most this year?

According to BigTex.com, this year's submissions are:

Awesome Deep Fried Nutella® – Cream cheese and Nutella® are whipped and spread over flaky Phyllo dough sheets, rolled up, and deep fried. Served with a drizzle of honey and shaved almonds.

Deep Fried Cuban Roll – A filling of slow cooked pork shoulder, chopped ham, Swiss cheese, pickles, and secret sauce is spread onto a slice of Swiss cheese, rolled up in pastry dough, and deep fried. Roll is served with a side of majo sauce for dipping.

Fernie’s Deep Fried King Ranch Casserole –This stick-to-your-ribs TEXAS SHAPED creation is melted cheese, salty, spicy, goodness that is dipped in a zesty southwestern egg wash and coated in panko bread crumbs. Deep fried golden brown and crunchy on the outside; steamy and creamy on the inside! Served with a side of red, white, and blue tortilla chips and your choice of our homemade “salsafied” sour cream or cheesy queso. Each one proudly flying the flag of the Lone Star State and deep fried in the Heart of Texas!

Fried Thanksgiving Dinner – Mama’s homemade stuffing and diced roasted turkey are rolled in a ball. Next it’s dipped in southern cream corn and rolled in seasoned corn meal - all fried to a crispy golden brown. Served with old fashion giblet brown gravy. The zesty orange cranberry sauce fills your dipping needs and results in a complete thanksgiving dinner, FRIED!

Golden Fried Millionaire Pie – Sweetened, fluffy cream cheese filling is loaded with golden pineapple and Texas pecans then wrapped in a flaky pie crust and fried to a golden brown. Topped with whipped cream, toasted coconut, and candied pecans.

Spinach Dip Bites – Creamy and delicious spinach artichoke dip bites are coated with crispy tortilla chips and flash-fried until golden brown. Bites are served with salsa for an additional kick.

Southern Style Chicken-Fried Meatloaf – Homemade meatloaf slices are coated in an authentic Texas chicken-fried breading and deep fried golden brown. Served with garlic mashed potatoes, Texas cream gravy, and a ketchup/brown sugar glaze for dipping.

Texas Fried Fireball – Pimento cheese, pickles, cayenne pepper, and bacon are rolled into a ball, dipped in buttermilk, covered with a jalapeno-infused batter and deep fried. Served with chipotle ranch for dipping.

Check out the Big Tex website for more information, and check back on September 2 to find out which deep-fried delicacy wins the prize.

... deep fried casserole eh ..?!

**OrlandotheTechnicoloured**

Sounds good

(I am also from Scotland, land of deep fried everything)

including such joys as deep fried Pizza

http://fxcuisine.com/default.asp?language=2&Display=112&resolution=high

haggis

http://lunchquest.co.uk/2012/11/deep-sea/

and mars bars & other chocolates (too sweet for me, I like savoury)

http://www.ilike.org.uk/2007/10/what_does_a_deep_fried_mars_ba.html

and since I'm from the east coast everything soaked in tasty brown sauce

**schadenfreude**

Nutella is good with chocolate, but deep fried nutella sounds about as appetizing as sucking on high velocity lead served from the barrel of a 12 gauge.

Tempura bacon on the other hand sounds so delicious that it gives me a shred of hope for the human race without even tasting it yet.

**Monster Rain**

Here's the recipe! http://www.saveur.com/article/Recipes/Bacon-Tempura

This is pretty basic. You could add some flavoring agents to the batter like whatever kind of spices tickle your fancy, and personally I like to use dark beer or Sprite in tempura batter instead of club soda. I'd also recommmend mixing up some sriracha aioli to dip it in.