Do you know what a fried cheese curd is?

[Mercule]

I live in the south where we deep fry pickles, twinkies and Snickers bars. Simply put, a fried cheese curd is a little bite o'heaven.

Pickles are great. Just don't bite into 'em too hot -- boiling vinegar is not fun. I have so got to find a fried Twinkie, though. For some reason, I never quite seem to be able to make it to the vendor. I suspect my wife of actively denying me the experience.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

We always got them from a small corner store in Boonville, quite a ways from Albany. My only advice to you is to get out of the city and check some of the country stores. Up state NY is a major dairy producing area, once you get out of the cities its all cows and fields.

Umm, I just moved to Boonville, MO. It IS a long way from Albany, alright. Or are you talking about a Boonville in NY. (Like there could ever be two cities named the same thing!).

I mean Missouri has the only Paris, Versailles, and Tightwad in the world, right?

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

I live in the south where we deep fry pickles, twinkies and Snickers bars. Simply put, a fried cheese curd is a little bite o'heaven.

You forgot Chicken, Steak, Butter Sticks, Alligator, Possum, Raccoon, Squirrel, Quail, Shrimp, Little Debbies, Ice Cream, Pork Skin, Cow Testicles, Chittlins (Deep Fried Chittlins is a sight to see, not smell, but see is OK).

In fact, if you can eat, I'm pretty sure you can find it fried somewhere in the south.

 

[Torm]

Oh. Just moved to small Missouri Town. Got an A&W stand 100' from my house. I was wondering what the great big banner declaring CHeese Curds was. Might eat there tomorrow.

Oooh. Is it one of the A&W / Long John Silvers combo joints, or just an A&W? If it is the former, Cheese Curds + LJS Fish + Root Beer on tap = a suburb of Heaven.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Oooh. Is it one of the A&W / Long John Silvers combo joints, or just an A&W? If it is the former, Cheese Curds + LJS Fish + Root Beer on tap = a suburb of Heaven.

Fraid Not. We do have a KFC/Long John Silvers combo joint down the street. I think I can order anything deep-fried there, even a Pepsi (or maybe Coke).

 

[DungeonmasterCal]

You forgot Chicken, Steak, Butter Sticks, Alligator, Possum, Raccoon, Squirrel, Quail, Shrimp, Little Debbies, Ice Cream, Pork Skin, Cow Testicles, Chittlins (Deep Fried Chittlins is a sight to see, not smell, but see is OK).

In fact, if you can eat, I'm pretty sure you can find it fried somewhere in the south.

Ahh...I love it here!

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

Ahh...I love it here!

Yea, poor little alien that lands in backwoods Arkansas. Get himself Shot (or ran over), stuffed, and deep-fried.

Then, the Canning of all the leftover bits would begin.

 

[Vraille Darkfang]

OK. So you pointed me towards a coupon, and the A&W stand is around 500 feet away.

Results:

Liked them, the cheese tastes better than the mozz. sticks I'm used to too.

However, the breading sucked. No real flavor to it. I've had much better breading on Mozz sticks, chicken, etc. The taste in fried foods come from 3 things:

1. What you fry.

2. What you use to protect it while frying (i.e breading).

3. The oil you use to fry.

As for A&W, all they got was the cheese curd. No spices or seasoning in the breading & no fast food place uses an oil that imparts a good flavor to the food (like olive oil would).

Later

 

[The_Universe]

OK. So you pointed me towards a coupon, and the A&W stand is around 500 feet away.

Results:

Liked them, the cheese tastes better than the mozz. sticks I'm used to too.

However, the breading sucked. No real flavor to it. I've had much better breading on Mozz sticks, chicken, etc. The taste in fried foods come from 3 things:

1. What you fry.

2. What you use to protect it while frying (i.e breading).

3. The oil you use to fry.

As for A&W, all they got was the cheese curd. No spices or seasoning in the breading & no fast food place uses an oil that imparts a good flavor to the food (like olive oil would).

Later

There are much better cheeseballs available than A&W's...but A&W has the advantage of being relatively widespread. Culvers (a burger chain mentioned above) has some of the best fried Cheese Curds in the land! Both the breading and the cheese itself are top notch.

 

[thalmin]

OK, tried them at Culvers. VERY GOOD!. Almost as good as what I used to get at Springwater, a resort in central Wisconsin near the summer camp where I used to work. But then Warren used to cook them in peanut oil.
Our camp staff became addicted to fried cheese curds. And we were regulars at Springwater. The owner once told me that our staff (some 40+ of us) accounted for over 80% of the cheese curds he sold for the entire year! And we were only up there for 2 1/2 months!

Hmm. Back to Culvers for lunch.