Crazy Deep Fried Food Facts 

Fried food has a special place in American hearts. Specifically the aorta.

This video needs a part 2!! There are so many fried foods. Fried pickles, deep fried Twinkies, funnel cakes, elephant ears etc….

I want an in depth, multi part documentary about the chicken in a can

My part-Japanese mom used to tell me the story about Tokugawa Ieyasu dying from tempura gluttony to stop me from eating all the agemono (tasty deep fried foods) at the Japanese Sunday buffet when I was a kid in Hawaii. The other part of my family is mostly hushpuppy and beignet eaters. I guess I am destined to keep frying oil and bacon grease on hand.

In British fish 'n' chips the fish is battered not breaded.

As a southerner and deep fryer of EVERYTHING I approve of this video

Nothing like a place that never changes oil and you get some fried oreos that taste like onion rings or fried fish. Great Video!

Funny that Scotch eggs might have been invented for wealthy travelers. I traveled across Britain eating cellophane-wrapped Scotch eggs from petrol stations at a time when I was anything but wealthy.

Here’s a fact, that grease isn’t cleaned as often it should be, especially depending on the establishment. I once saw a gas station deli cook swat bugs into the fryer then go about making chicken like nothing was wrong. Edit: by bugs I wasn't talking about flies. It was spiders.

How about the history of Rice-a-roni, the San Francisco treat?

Another video winner, Weird History Food! Thanks for always posting new content. If possible, I would love to see a video on retro cakes/desserts like Pineapple Upside Down Cake, Molten Chocolate Lava Cake, and Ice Cream Cake ❤

Do a video on where the piping tips and pastry bag come from? History of cake decorating!🎂

An interesting journey, but no snack culture relies on deep frying as much as the Dutch. Frikandellen, bitterballen, kroketten, kaassoufflés, vlammetjes, and the legendary Oliebollen. So, a part 2 would be welcome.

I saw the movie Fried Green Tomatoes at the time of its original release. I only started making them 10 years ago, and they're sooo good.

A+ video! Awesome fried food facts!

what surprised me the most is that Dutch wasn't even mentioned in a video about deep fried food

From what I understand, they call them hush puppies because slaves would feed them to dogs that were chasing them to get them to "hush, puppy." in the American Civil War.

Great video. ‘Fried fish’ shops are mentioned in Oliver Twist which was written in the late 1830s… not sure if they had chips in Dickens’ time though!

The first I ever had a churro, it was in 1974 at the Old Town State Park in San Diego, California. I bought it at the Panadería (Bake Shop). I had my first Beingnet at a St. Patrick's Day festival in 2016 in San Diego's Balboa Park. It was love at first bite.😋😍

Thumbs up for the lady.

Weird how the history of Onion Rings hasn't been documented very well. My favorite fried foods are fried shrimp, French Fries, onion rings, and fried cauliflower. However, I only eat fried foods in moderation. On a related note, Jack In The Box's fried tacos are very infamous for being so bad they're good [I personally never tried them], and I'm curious as to how and why Jack In The Box even had tacos in the first place, as they apparently date back to 1951, before Taco Bell. I think the tacos would be an interesting topic in a history of Jack In The Box video, and the early incarnations of Jack Box would also be interesting to talk about. The 1970s version of Jack was voiced by none other then Paul Winchell, who voiced Tigger and invented the artificial heart.

I ate a lot of fried food yesterday and was wondering how bad it was for my body… even after the video I still have questions…

Super funny burger king has the worst onion rings I've ever had. 😂 Great video

Another awesome video

Didn’t think the Spanish Inquisition was going on in the 1590s

I don’t know why but Johnny Onion Ring tickled me to no end. 🤣🤣🤣

Youtiao 油條 is very much still a common snack and enjoyed with rice congee in Hong Kong and Guangdong today, it translates to "oil stick" in Chinese, and is often served as a chopped and wrapped in a thin sheet of rice paper, with soy sauce poured over it, commonly referred to as 油炸鬼 (translating to "deep fried ghost"). A sweet variation also exists and is sold at congee shops , called 牛脷酥 ( ox tongue pastry, a reference to it's looks?) the only difference between that and 油炸鬼 is the joined tubular oval shape vs straight double tubular shape. 牛脷酥 is often eaten as is or as a "dessert" to congee

All these foods were interesting to learn about! Yum! Do a part 2 since there are so many fried foods out there! ❤🍤🫔🥟

Please make a video on the history of smoked/cured foods! (Bonus ask is to include salmon specifically)

@7:12 Made Fried Green Tomatoes with the tomatoes I grew in the garden, it was good!

Well done for showing an actual picture of Mossley at 4:54. I also love that you show King’s fish & chips, from my home town of Boston, in Lincolnshire, at 5:44 (the original Boston, which the one in Massachusetts is named after).

Between this video and the previous one specifically about Buffalo wings, I'm really glad this channel has taken the stance that the dish's origin isn't as clear cut as we were once led to believe.

I absolutely love hush puppies! I make them at least once a week. Sometimes plain, sometimes not. But I’ll eat the entire batch in a day if no one else is home. They are my addiction.

Catrina!!! You were hiding here all along!! . Lol don't listen to the haters, we've missed you in your channel. 👏🏼 . . ❤❤❤

The Story I head about hush puppies was that slaves would fry bit of dough to feed guard dogs during their escape attempts to "Hush the Puppies"

This is probably the most sizzling Weird History Food episode. 🍳

Would love to hear about pretzels and brownies!

Ooh, can you all do the history of the Yoo Hoo drink?

Thanks for this! 🍟 #WeirdHistoryFood #FoodHistory #FriedFood

"I don't care where you're from or who you are, there''s nothing like a good piece of fried chicken." (VIDEO ENDS) *nods*

2:09 I don't think anyone was expecting that!

2:22 i did not expect the spanish inquisition

As a Buffalonian I appreciate the objective and historically accurate approach on the chicken wings (buffalo wings) take. Good job.

Gotta say, I was really digging the music selection in this video.

I agree that fried green tomatoes are great for breakfast, especially with eggs Benedict. (Also, I want some churros now.)

I feel like 20lb of onions is lightweight, i gotta be eating at least 40lbs.

Frying can cover up a lot of problems with food...

Like the Braveheart reference. And I like this narrator as well! 🤟🏻

good video

Being an American and "thanking the Mouse" for churros when Mexico is right there is crazy. More people have seen Mexican street vendors selling them than have even visited a Disney park.

Loved the tempura facts! I want to eat tempura til I die toooo

@9:01 We used to have a quad cat named Whitby, he stayed at our residence hall for most of a school year.

ROLFMAO "japanese cardiologist have been thanking the portugese ever since:"

I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

Being originally from the coast of Texas, about halfway between Mexico and New Orleans, I could not help but think "what's so crazy about that stuff?" Haha but I enjoy the food history!

I've only had fried green tomatoes once in my life and they were so good. I think I should learn to make my own. Seems simple enough

Wrong about onion rings. The first mention was in an English cookbook from 1802.

Shawty back! Finally

Mmm, time for lunch! I don't think I have anything deep fried, but I'm still hungry.

Wtf our youzhakuay(youtiao) was the inspiration for churros?!?! LOL that's mindblowing to me hahahaha

Gotta say, I was NOT expecting the Spanish Inquisition.

0:00 I don't care where you're from, who you are, [what you did, as long as you love me]

I had my very first churro at Disneyland. My first beignet was at the Cajun restaurant Downtown Disney. I need to get out of So Cal.

Hush puppy’s! Man I haven’t had those in a while

I made fried green tomatoes 3 days ago, with a horseradish sauce.

You ain't lived until you've had a deep fried Mars bar.

5:58 Umm, that's not true. Tokugawa Ieyasa was *not* the first Shogun. He was the founder of the Tokugawa Shogunate, which was the LAST Shogunate but not the first. The first Shogun was named Minamoto Yoritomo, who became Shogun in 1192 (though had already held the power we'd associate with one for 7 years by that point). Tokugawa Ieyasu only became Shogun in 1603, and his Shogunate is, if I remember correctly, the third Shogunate to have existed in Japan.

You have the Onion Rings lore totally wrong. Townsends has a video about an Onion Ring recipe dating back to 1801.

"...remember to thank Mickey Mouse and the Spanish Inquisition." The narrator's performance complements the diabolically funny writing perfectly here. I'm curious: Why is the narrator not credited for these?

The same company that makes churros for Disneyland are the same $1.00 churros you buy at Costco. 🤐

Most interesting thing to me was that the onion ring doesn’t have a reference from before 1850: it looks like something that could have been served way sooner in history. (It could be possible of course that it was served in a place that didn’t get too popular until American entrepreneurs stole it, similar to a lot of candies.)

How did our ancestors figure out that frying chicken coated in flour and buttermilk made it even better?

Churros with the Spanish Inquisition? I didn't expect that.

@2:14 Larry the Cable Guy voices the character Mater in the Cars films. He lives around the Lincoln, Nebraska area goes to a lot of social events in the area.

Chicken Charlie: Hold my batter!

You think onion rings are a big contributor to the estimated 20lbs of onions Americans eat annually? Have you ever cooked basically any recipe? One of many reasons why people with onion allergies have a rough go and frankly shouldn’t eat in restaurants if it’s severe. There’s just no way to guarantee no cross contamination. I’ve had like 6 onion rings in the past decade. I go through at least one onion weekly at home

One summer I had a part-time job working in the snack bar at the bowling alley. We deep-fried a pair of shoes and threw them on the roof for the rats to eat. The were size 11.5, I think.

Pretty interesting, but the placement of the"Spanish Inquisition"in Latin America does not make much sense...that's not how the assorted Inquisitions worked. They didn't "travel overseas" in the manner suggested.

I have never had any except beignets cuz our friends came over with cafe du mon beignet mix

Is that an eggball I see? 👌

Wild someone can unironically say thank mickey mouse and the Spanish inquisition 💀

Yummy!

yoo-yoo, today's my birthday!! 🔥🔥🔥

Guys, new PC just dropped: formerly enslaved person

I'm old enough to remember when Red Lobster had hush puppies as a side dish before they had the cheddar bay biscuits. They were delicious, RL made the best hush puppies.

Who is the guy who usually does the narration? I am missing him like crazy!

the spanish inquisition? i didn't expect that

Holy crap I went to high school in Bamberg SC

Love Fried Tomatoes but just so everyone knows Tomatilloes Pop like crazy i couldnt get them to work the same as the Green tomatoes.

I didn't expect the Spanish inquisition.

I have a unusual food allergy to ordinary potatoes. I am there for happy with onion rings. When in was a kid, there was rice fries made by the Orida food company. There was regular and cheese rice fries. I haven't seen them at a grocery store for decades 😟

The hush puppies surprises me

Check your facts, Atlas Obscure includes recipes from a book (stone tablets) from ancient Babylonia. There are cookbooks from the 1600/1700 French Court and the Fanny Farmer Cookbook was first published in 1896, which includes recipes for fried food.

Fried Foods = Comfort food!!!!🤗🤗🤗

Fried ice cream is so good.

"Churros were traditionally dusted with cinnamon and sugar" ... that is 100% wrong. Churros come from Spain, where they are a traditional breakfast in cafes, known as "chocolate con churros." There is a piping hot cup of liquid chocolate in which one dips a PLAIN churro, which is traditionally the only option. Cinnamon and sugar on churros was never done in Spain, at least not traditionally, making me wonder, Weird History: where do you get your information??

I love fried foods, especially onion rings, fried green tomatoes, sopapillas, and beignets. As I like to keep my kitchen clean and my smoke alarms are sensitive, I'd rather go to a restaurant to eat these and other fried treats.

“Remember to thank Mickey Mouse and the Spanish inquisition” You want us to thank exploitative capitalism and colonialism?!

almost 2 minutes spent on churros, when the title mentions fried foods. It takes 9 seconds. You wonder why ppl aren't wild about Weird History Food's new editor .

History of brand name Products and foods we thought were foreign-made.