History Main / DeepFriedWhatever

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Disco Bear manages to deep fry a ''[[NutritionalNightmare stick of butter]]'' while at a restaurant in "[[Recap/HTFChangeOfHeart A Change of Heart]]".

* ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'': Disco Bear manages to deep fry a ''[[NutritionalNightmare stick of butter]]'' while at a restaurant in "A Change of Heart".

* A restaurant in Brooklyn owned by a Brit called the [[http://www.chipshopnyc.com/ Chip Shop]] will fry up anything you want. The [[http://www.chipshopnyc.com/menus/park-slope-menu menu]] includes deep-fried pizza.

* ''VideoGame/LufiaIIRiseOfTheSinistrals'', [[LethalChef Selan's]] deep-fried jelly in olive oil.

In fiction, deep-fried menu items are a cliché way to depict PovertyFood on the rickety dinner table of a LowerClassLout, whether the story is set in the US DeepSouth or Britain OopNorth in an IndustrialGhetto. In CanadaEh, especially in Quebec and Ontario, poutine, french fries with gravy and cheese curds, is depicted as a popular food truck snack for working-class families. The depiction of deep-fried food as always a lower-income food choice isn't true; you can go to a fancy Japanese restaurant and order tempura, which is battered, deep-fried items, or a fancy ChezRestaurant and order a "steak frites" (beef steak and thin deep-fried potato strips).

** In [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E13TheSinisterUrge "The Sinister Urge",]] Dr. Forrester deep fried ''Frank'' as a punishment for nearly blowing up Deep 13.
--->'''TV's Frank:''' There, I'm deep fried. Can we be friends now?

** In [[Recap/MysteryScienceTheater3000S06E13TheSinisterUrge "The Sinister Urge",]] Dr. Forrester deep fried ''Frank'' as a punishment for nearly blowing up the Satellite of Love.

** In "The Sinister Urge", Dr. Forrester deep fried ''Frank'' as a punishment for nearly blowing up the Satellite of Love.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'': Castle sleeps with his first ex-wife when she rolls into town for a short time. He compares it to the guilty pleasure of a "deep-fried Twinkie".

* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'': During a 4th of July barbecue, Shake and Carl deep-fry an ''entire'' cow injected with cheese in its udders and force-fed bacon and ranch dressing before it died. Afterwards, they just leave the oil to fester in the front yard until Frylock forces them to dispose of it properly. This being Shake and Carl, they just dump it in the woods, provoking the wrath of the trees inside of it.

** The main ingredient of ''Frittelle di San Giuseppe'' (St. Joseph's fritters) is rice boiled in milk. They are deep-fried and eaten sweet for the titular saint's day.

* As an old saying from Italy tells, "fritta è buona anche una ciabatta" ("even a slipper is tasty if it's deep-fried"). (This saying predates the use of the term "ciabatta" to refer to a kind of bread roll, which [[NewerThanTheyThink only dates from 1982]].)

* As an old saying from Italy tells, "fritta è buona anche una ciabatta" ("even a slipper is tasty if it's deep-fried").