Last week I joined the Spice of Life Challenge which involves reading new-to-me books about food. Within the challenge a mini-challenge has been issued: Eat something you’ve never eaten before. Whoa-boy, I think I eat a wide variety of things but my daughter Cerrin challenge me with a couple of items to try.
What you see in this picture is a Fried Pickle (left) and a Fried Green Tomato.
Most people who read this blog have probably read Fried Green Tomatoes by Fannie Flagg and/or seen the movie. I’ve done both but I had never tasted them. I was amazed at how delicious they were. They were crispy on the outside with a sweet, slightly tomato taste on the inside. They were shredded with parmesan cheese on the top. Quite yummy.
I’d never even heard of Fried Pickles. Cerrin says they’ve become quite popular on appetizer menus. Usually they are sliced circles or chunks of dill pickles. In the one you see above it’s been sliced the length of the pickle, dipped in batter and fried. What did it taste like? A breaded dill pickle. You know how pickles are crunchy? This was double crunchy with the pickle and the outside breading. It was served with a spicy dipping sauce that I could not figure out. The whole thing was quite good. However, I’m not going to make a steady diet of them. At least I can say I tried some new-to-me foods. I can be adventurous.
What about you? Have you been daring enough to try something new?
Here in Tucson fried twinkies are very big, but frankly, I’m not interested! But I’m usually willing to try new and different ethnic foods, as long as they don’t include body parts to which I have objections!
I like trying new food; I enjoyed fried pickles the one time I had them (at a barbecue place), and yes, they were pickle chips rather than the wedge you apparently had.
Here in the deep South, they fry everything! Fried green tomatoes are extremely popular and fried pickles aren’t as common, but you still see them quite often.
I have never tried either one – but they both sound quite interesting!
I love to try new YUMMY-LOOKING foods, although i’ve been to a few dim sum spots where i just wouldn’t try the varied “edible” feet from the cart. generally, everything tastes better FRIED!!
I have yet to try these items – maybe the tomato one day but I’m not a pickle fan. My husband and I like to try different ethnic foods – I even cook Indian, Japanese, Chinese, Greek, Italian, Thai — not sure if I left anything out. If we like something we have tried (outside of the house), I try to duplicate it — kind of fun — kind of a pain — sometimes it takes many, many tries but, my family is used to being guinea pigs … the kids really ‘loved’ my black bean brownies
I have always wanted to try Fried Green Tomatoes, since reading the Fannie Flagg book. they sound delicious.
I’ve never had either of these, but the one I’d be most likely to try is the friend green tomato. I like pickles, but not well enough to want one fried
Good for you to try try something new!
Good for you. I like trying new foods – sometimes. Not adventuresome enough to eat fried pickles or fried green tomatoes. Don’t like them under ordinary circumstances so doubt would enjoy them fried. I did have some batter fried calamari the other day. Hubby talked me into it. Very chewy.
I thought the same thing you did before I tried my first fried pickle. I was like OH I like pickles but frying them just semed weird to me…but someone else ordered one…and I tried one of her’s and LOVED them. it is the dill taste in a crunchy chip type thing with a great sause. Very yummy.
Oh, this reminds me of going to the New York State Fair, where you can get anything fried! Snickers bars, twinkies, probably pickles, too! I’ve never tried this, but would be willing to (like you, try it for the novelty, not a steady diet).
Congrats on your success with the mini challenge.
I have to say that the one thing I tried as new and detested were boiled peanuts. We stopped at a stand in Georgia and wow, but were they gross.