i have to admit it . . . i'd try it

Our family friend, Scott Hutcheson, an Indiana foodwriter also known as The Hungry Hoosier, got me googling Chicken Fried Bacon this afternoon.  Yeah, you read right.  I try to eat healthy, but I've gotta be honest and admit I'd at least try a piece of this stuff.

I include a lot of food in my novels, people are always cooking or going to a well-loved restaurant, and I'm thinking this "dish" has got to make an appearance. Of course, most people would declare me going over the top! 

What's the unhealthiest, but yummiest food you've ever eaten?  I'd have to go with chicken fried steak, I think. Or deep fried Oreo cookies. (pictured left)

 

Anyway, do read the column linked below. The guy's hilarious!

Link: Would you like double grease with that?: 1/16/99.

But what I really like about Sodolak's concoction is that it makes the food police crazy. "I've never heard of anything worse," said Jayne Hurley, senior nutritionist at the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington D.C., the same bunch of food frumps who warned us about theater popcorn, guacamole and Chinese food. "They've taken fat, they've doubled-coated it in fat, they've fried it in more fat, and then served it with a side order of fat." So what's her problem? At Sodolak's, you get six chicken-fried bacon strips for $3.50. If you ate an order of this stuff every day for a year and you went to the store in a pair of Capri pants, it would look like you were keeping a sack full of gophers prisoner in your underwear.

Comments

[Alison Strobel Morrow]

deep fried mars bar.

mmmmmmmmmmmmm.

[DLE]

My mother-in-law, bless her heart, came to visit us a few weeks ago and decided that she and my father-in-law would treat us to some special desserts. They wound up buying four(!) fancy pies from Kroger. Mine was to be a French Silk pie in deference to my chocoholism.

But I'm a nutrition label reader from long, long ago and I was astonished at the label on the French Silk pie. One-eighth of a pie contained 98 percent of one's daily saturated fat content, and the rest of the fat came in at 69 percent. (Ironically, zero grams trans fat.) Cheesecake doesn't have that much fat in it!

Still, one small slice of that pie--I'm more a one-sixth man myself--amounted to an entire day's worth of saturated fat! I sadly told my mother-in-law I'd stick with the pumpkin pie that came in at only 20 percent. We unloaded the French Silk pie at our small group, and folks consumed it all despite hearing my tale.

[Katy McKenna]

What about that deep-fried ice cream you can order at Mexican restuarants? Oh, dear Lord in heaven above!

I gotta admit, I don't worry a lot about fat content, except trans fats. I totally avoid those. Chicken fried anything sounds yummy, except that I think chicken-frying always involves flour. I don't do flour. Or sugar. It's amazing how much less fat you automatically eat if you avoid flour and sugar!

But philosophically, at least, I got no problem with the fat. Doesn't the Scripture say somewhere not to "harm the oil or the wine"? That's what I'm talkin' about!

[Heather Diane Tipton]

okay, sadly that sounds good to me. of course, my family used to chicken fry salt pork... so same idea. LOL

Normally I eat healthy but everyonce in a while I will go all out on the grease factor... (yeah, yeah, not counting my starbucks addiction!)

[Susan Updike]

I would say funnel cakes. Sugar, sugar and more sugar! Deep fried dough with powdered sugar and syrup and a side order of bacon...is it breakfast yet?

[Katy McKenna]

It seems right to me that everything should come with a side order of bacon.