We never used the term "cake batter" when I was a kid, we said "cake mix."

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@jshawthorne @cstross The ingredients in the mix vary, but yes, you can find almost all civilised peoples have it as part of traditional zero-waste cooking. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_sausage

[dan@axillae.telent.net]

@kitten_tech @fesshole "cake batter" implies the existence of "cake bowler" and "cake fielders"

[colman@mastodon.ie]

@jshawthorne @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus they can deep fry *anything*.

[prophetscross@mastodon.social]

@jshawthorne @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus Mostly they're called Haggis fritters, and sometimes served with Whisky peppercorn sauce if in a restaurant, or just chips if you get it out of a chippy

[illuminatus@mstdn.social]

@ProphetsCross @jshawthorne @cstross God, I love Scotland. I would die of Cardiovascular disease before my fifties, but I love it.

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus A chip shop in Sciennes used to do deep fried jaffa cakes in the 90s. Three of them, overlapping to form a rounded rectangle thing, cocktail stick through them, battered. Utterly glorious at 2am.

[http_error_418@hachyderm.io]

@jshawthorne @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus @Colman including ice cream

[cstross@wandering.shop]

@_thegeoff @fesshole @Illuminatus Chippie up the road from me does the notorious Deep Fried Battered Mars Bar (with salt'n'sauce). I have never dared.

[_thegeoff@mastodon.social]

@cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus Thing is, the major health hazard there is the Mars Bar, the deep-frying only adds a little fat and complex carb to the outrageous amount of sugar. If you've not got any blood-sugar issues try one, just the once, worth it.

[crazyeddie@mastodon.social]

@frang @fesshole It's the sort of idea that could make you millions.

This means it's probably a complete disaster or you'd see it in stands at fairs.

Maybe the cake soaks up the oil really fast due to wicking and you get a soggy blob of flour-oil inside a fried flour shell.

Fried butter took off though... I'm wondering what one of those elephant ear stands costs... Fuck software development.

[bjn@mstdn.social]

@cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus I always thought that the deep frying everything thing was a slander of the Scots by the English. I was set to rights when I ordered a mini pizza when waiting for the ferry to Skye (so quite a while ago). While I was wondering where the pizza oven was they took a mini pizza out of the freezer, dipped it in batter and deep fried it. The Italian in me was were horrified and the best word for my experience was “interesting”.

[peachfront@toot.community]

@fesshole

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where i live (US South), the cake mix is the dry stuff, once it is wet, it is cake batter...

[peterbrown@mastodon.scot]

@fesshole it is still cake mix. It’s not batter.
Batter is for dipping fish into before you fry them.

You couldn’t use cake mix for that.

[wordshaper@weatherishappening.network]

@cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus Or are from the American South, because pretty much everything gets batter dipped and deep fried at fairs down there and this wouldn't be the most ridiculous thing by far.

[delila@chaos.social]

@Colman @jshawthorne @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus you wouldn't batter a car...

[delila@chaos.social]

@bjn @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus deep fried pizza is one of the few things i miss as a vegan now - however i find it wrong to batter it, the first time i seen that i was shocked, i grew up on non battered deep fried pizza

[jshawthorne@packmates.org]

@Illuminatus @ProphetsCross @cstross Silly Wizard had a whole spiel about this in like the 80s about how Scotland was the last place on earth where fried food and smoking were good for you.

[delila@chaos.social]

@Colman @jshawthorne @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus you wouldn't deep fry a dvd...

[jshawthorne@packmates.org]

@delila @Colman @cstross @fesshole @Illuminatus What I'm gathering from this conversation is that the Scottish would, indeed, batter and deep fry a car.

[nxskok@cupoftea.social]

@patterfloof high quality healthy food.

@fesshole @Illuminatus @cstross