@Cerberus how's the weather?

@Mien Sunny! And yours?

Sunny and a lot of snow :D

Didn't it snow?

I see no snow whatsoever, and the streets look dry?

We had a little bit of snow yesterday.

You?

A lot of it.

There was a new traffic jam record today.

mmmm, jam

Oh, dear.

I read there was lots of snow in Brabant.

Fortunately, we have been spared up here.

@ElendilTheTall You Brit.

@Cerberus that's right, if it's not deep-fried and covered in powdered sugar you dutchies won't touch it

Umm, what? We are nothing like that! We'll eat anything as long as it is raw herring.

We're not fat.

Look whose people are talking!

@ElendilTheTall I am sure there are ways to deep-fry jam. And putting powdered sugar on it shouldn't be a problem either.

I think Mr Longlegs is confusing us with our former colony, where they have buckets containing 4 l of coke.

you mean the colony which used to be theirs?

I don't think they deep-fry in all of it, just in the southern parts. And there they don't bother about powdered sugar, at least based on the recipes I've seen.

Go to a state fair and you'll see it's possible to deep fry anything.

@Jefromi I had deep fried yogurt once. It was nice. Normally, deep fried stuff feels too heavy to me, but the yogurt gave a nice balance to the crispy crust.

Yeah, that does sound good.

@rumtscho Which used to be ours!

Nieuw-Amsterdam.

*New

No, no.

Neo?

Better.

Baobab?

Darn, I don't know that one.

@Mien That sounds like a good guess though!

I saw someone else suggest it too in the comments.

But I thought the peel would be harder than an orange.

Me too... but "thick and rough orange-like" is kind of vague - it could just be saying it's colored on the outside and white underneath, and not mean it's that soft.

myeah, I don't know.

I'm curious though!

@NiallC. please keep us up to date.

@Mien Will do.

I've thought about asking the OP about migrating it to Seasoned Advice if they don't get a good answer after a while.

Yeah, a few more people would see it there than are in the chat.

Sure, it's certainly a valid question for our site.

I'll wait and see what the OP thinks about Baobab; I'll let them decide if they want it moved.

Thank you all for your help

@rumtscho the only deep fried jam product I know of is doughnuts. And they're Dutch! Or at least the Dutch eat plenty of them, with powdered sugar no doubt

Also, I have longan!

Of course, to be truly great fair food, in addition to being deep-fried, it must be on a stick:

That looks delicious @Jefromi

Oh my God, what is that? It is deep-friend something. Or perhaps just the essence of deep-frying?

Deep-fried PB&J!

Wow.

We don't have that.

@Cerberus There are two primary food groups at state fairs: deep-fried, and -on-a-stick. The two may be combined.

Haha apparently.

I have a list somewhere from a fair...

Here we just eat the normal fare.

As in sandwiches and cookies.

Although there may be a fries stall.

And certain sweet, fatty foods around Christmas.

For the record I have not actually eaten any of these things, but...

You should try it!

(and I think most people who have only have them once a year or something at a fair)

Yeah, yeah.

And the 4-l buckets they were going to outlaw in NY nobody drinks either...

All of these may be found deep-fried: brownie sundae, swiss rolls, cupcakes, cinnamon rolls with bacon, girl scout cookies, coke and lemonade, frito pie, candy bars, pecan pie, dough, corn on the cob, oreos, chicken pot pies, cheesecake, twinkies, cherry, apple, pumpkin, and chocolate pies.

Deep-fried lemonade. Of course.

Oh, and we have poffertjes, which are extremely fatty, though not deep-fried.

Just friend the normal way in butter, then with extra butter on top.

Oh and candy apples. I think that's everything I found.

Fatty, fluffy, tiny pancakes.

Fun!

That's a nice setup!

@Jefromi thanks for the catch re: trying to answer a question with the same link the question linked to. >_>

@PrestonFitzgerald No problem - also, for what it's worth, the OP's from Sweden and there's a link in the comments about what's allowed there.

I need to slow down.

Okay, good grief, finally got those drawings right.

I had deep-fried pickles at a state fair last year...

They apparently had deep-friend bubblegum as well.

They really do deep-fry everything.

@Kareen Gross.

Pickles were the only thing I agreed to try at the insistence of my friend. It was not as gross as I thought it was going to be, really.

Yikes.

Unbelievable!

Fried pickles aren't so bad; I've seen them away from state fairs.

I don't know...

I'm not a huge fan of pickles.