“You can say a lot of bad things about the South, but you can’t say that they as a people are unduly afraid of deep fryers. In that first week at the Creek, the cafeteria served fried chicken, chicken-fried steak, and fried okra, which marked my first foray into the delicacy that is the fried vegetable. I half expected them to fry the iceberg lettuce. But nothing matches the Bufriedo, a dish created by Maureen, the amazingly (and understandably) obese Culver Creek cook. A deep fried burrito, the bufriedoproved beyond a shadow of a doubt that frying always improves food. Sitting with the Colonel and five guys I didn’t know at a circular table in the cafetaria that afternoon, I sank my teeth into the crunchy shell of my first bufriedo and experienced a culinary orgasm. My mom cooked okay, but I immediately wanted to take Maureen home with me over Thanksgiving.”
This is one of many funny passaged from the book I just finished, Looking for Alaska. Good stuff. And so totally true about the south and it’s love of all things fried. This post is especially prudent given that today is the Oklahoma-Texas football game which takes place at the Texas state fair and the OK state fair just ended. Only at the Great State Fairs of the South can you get a deep fried turkey leg, deep fried candy bars and a deep fried oreo. That’s right, oreo!
I encourage all of you to try to deep fry something that shouldn’t ordinarily be deep fried. It makes for a good time.
