I can truthfully say that Americans will deep fry anything edible. We will deep fry every part of the meal too, from the appetizers to the dessert. We will deep fry meat, fish, poultry, and seafood. We will deep fry cheese. We will deep fry sandwiches.There is a restaurant in Pennsylvania that deep fries hot dogs!
As appetizers, we'll deep fry chicken wings, shrimp, jueienned vegetables,and cheese sticks. Then we'll deep fry some beef, or pork, or chicken, or fish, or even tofu, as the main course. Once we have deep fried our entree, we also need to deep fry our side vegetables. Not just potatoes mind you, but onion rings and fried zucchini are extremely popular at fast food restaurants throughout the country. I saw someone make deep fried asparagus on a TV cooking show.
For dessert, how about some deep fried ice cream? Maybe a couple of deep fried twinkies, Oreo cookies, or a deep fried candy bar? Doughnuts are normally deep fried, too. At county fairs, they take sweetened batter and drop it into boiling oil through a conical dispenser and call the grease soaked and fat laden result funnel cakes.
Oh, and we can't just take bare food and deep fry it. That would ruin all the fun. We need to put a nice coating on our food before we fry it. Not a light, delicate coating like you would find on, say, tempura, mind you. Oh, no! Americans have to have a thick, heavy, flour and egg batter to bury the food inside of, so it can absorb as much of that delicious hydrogenated vegetable oil, pork fat, or beef tallow as possible.
Does anyone still wonder why over 30% of U.S. adults, age 20 years and older, or over 17% of American children and adolescents, are morbidly obese?