yo, rachelmanija

[telophase]

I found a place to take you to eat when you get here for A-Kon.

Three words: Chicken. Fried. Grits.

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[ebony14.livejournal.com]

The sound you just heard was my arterial walls flinching. And my family cookbook has a recipe for fried creamed corn.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You should ask Lotus about the meals he's eaten there. My arteries expired on the spot.

(*I* had a breaded, deep-friend pork chop, and ended up peeling half the breading off because there was SO. MUCH. AND they give you a HUGE gooey cinnamon roll AND a big roll, AND your choice of many, many fried side foods. And some non-fried - I had black-eyed peas and corn.)

[riofriotex.livejournal.com]

Yum! Where is this place?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Lake Worth - Ginger Brown's Old Tyme Restaurant (http://www.guidelive.com/portal/page?_pageid=33,97400&_dad=portal&_schema=PORTAL&item_id=5638). Decor: cheesy. Menu names and things: cheesy. Wait staff: surprisingly authentically down-home. Service is, according to my friends, spotty, and our server had to be flagged down because she didn't realize our table was in her (newly assigned) section, but she was apologetic, and nice.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

That sounds like about the most disgusting thing ever. Even thinking about it as chicken fried polenta makes me cringe.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I had a bite - not more, since they had cheese in them - and it was surprisingly good. And I don't even like grits, as a general rule.

ETA: I think they're deep-fried, and quickly, at the correct temp so they don't get soggy with oil, actually. So you get a crisp coating and then warm grits inside.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Ah! There's a substantial difference between "chicken fried" and "deep fried". I can imagine that deep fried cheesy grits would be quite delicious.

Batter-dipped, deep-fried cheesy grits...not so much.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure exactly how they're made, but if there's batter involved, it's a very thin one, not a big, thick one. They're named chicken fried grits, though. XD ETA: and they look deep fried. About the size of a golf ball, very dark outer coating that makes you go wtf? for a moment.

[puppleball.livejournal.com]

Don't forget the drizzle of raspberry preserve on top! They are yummy!

[mothoc.livejournal.com]

holy crap. *shudder*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You gotta come to this place. They bread and fry everything they can. XD

OK, so they do have a low-carb section on the menu, but I didn't check to see if it was just non-breaded versions of their regular stuff. And you can get grilled options of things. But I recommend the fried pork chop, because it keeps the pork moist and I think the grilled version would be too easy to dry out, because they're very thin.

In other words: yes, it *is* technically possible to eat healthy there, but if you're concerned about that too much, you shouldn't be there in the first place. XD

[chomiji]

There was an old Cornish proverb that "The Devil himself is afraid to come to Cornwall for fear of being baked into a pasty."

I guess the Texas variant involves being breaded and fried ... !

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

And served with a side of some vegetable that has been steamed into a mushlike consistency, usually beans or squash.

[chomiji]

Last summer one of our gaming crew was sporting a T-shirt that she'd bought at the county fair near her home town in Wisconsin. It had a checklist of deep-fried things-onna-stick you could buy (and *horrors* eat) at the fair ... the list was about 30 items long ... .

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heh. I haven't been to a fair here recently so I'm not sure what-all you could get onna stick, but man, 'round here if you can grab hold of it, you can deep-fry it and slop cream gravy on it and eat it.

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

God bless Texas.

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

Amen, Hallelujah, and pass the cream gravy please!

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

I'm really hungry now, thankyouverymuch!

AND I'm stuck at the desk with no one to cover for me while I go and find the closest approximation in twenty miles. *shakes fist*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Heeeee! XD I R TEH EVIL

[the-z.livejournal.com]

I love the South XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

PASS ME SOME A' THEM THERE GRITS, MEEMAW!

[the-z.livejournal.com]

Haha, grits are my primary example of food that I keep trying, hoping one day I'll like them. Still can't stomach them, though for all intents I should like them! I eat oatmeal, cream of wheat, and soggy cereal. I just can't get over the texture of grits!

Other foods I keep trying and still don't like include:
mushrooms
okra
cauliflower
oysters
steamed clams
organ meat

With the exception of okra, maybe all the foods are better deep fried.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I can't stand okra, cauliflower, or organ meats either. :D

My lunch companions ate fried okra and agreed it was better than stewed okra, because it doesn't produce that slimy gunk when fried. I took their words for it: I can't stand the taste.

[yhlee.livejournal.com]

I've never had grits but am hungry now. Maybe I should heat up that pork for a mid-afternoon snack instead of just having yogurt. :-D

[seawolf10.livejournal.com]

That sounds pretty good right now. It's been a long day.

Unfortunately, getting good southern food in Tampa is borderline impossible without putting in some serious time on the road. Great Hispanic food, though.

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

YUM.

...can I get bacon with that?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I BET YOU COULD if you asked nicely!