Fried Quotes

Nothing had changed in my routine, except that when I went down the chippy and got me special fried rice, it would be wrapped in a newspaper that had my picture all over it.

Lunch is a problem because my office is above our chip shop – everything is fried in proper beef dripping. It smells so good that by 12 o’clock it’s hard not to think very lovingly of fish and chips.

Most fast food is fried. Fried food tastes great, and people don’t seem to care about the fat aspect.

Strangely enough, the first character in Fried Green Tomatoes was the cafe, and the town. I think a place can be as much a character in a novel as the people.

I love a Yorkshire pudding. It’s basically pancake batter that’s fried in beef fat and puffs up; it’s like you can’t go wrong.

Practice does take a lot out of me mentally because I have to be on it for every stroke, every turn, every breakout. Anything I do, I want to be as focused as I can, so by the time practice is done, I’m kind of physically and mentally fried.

When I’m out, maybe I’m looking at the fried chicken, but I know I need to order the grilled. But I’m still from the country. I love my fried food and my neck bones and all that, too.

I know when you think about the South, you think about fried foods, but we eat a tremendous amount of vegetables. I have my own garden, so vegetables have always been a big part of my life. I love broccoli. I love fresh beets. It’s not all about the fried chicken and the biscuits.

Before I was married, I had never washed one dish or seen how you fried an egg or baking a potato.

The most I ever ate? In one sitting? Maybe four big plates of fried chicken, biscuits, chitlins, gravy. Then dessert. Apple pie, sweet potato pie. My mother cooked that stuff, good Southern food, and when I was 300 pounds, I never missed a meal.

When I was growing up in Mississippi – it was good Southern food… but I also grew up with a Greek family; when other kids were eating fried okra, we were eating steamed artichokes. So I think it played a big part in my healthy cooking.

I had a very detailed retirement plan, and I feel like I’ve met every aspect of it: a lot of golf, a lot of carbs, a lot of fried food, and some booze, occasionally – I’ve been completely committed… The results have shown.

The key to great fried squid is ‘flash-frying’ in hot oil for only a few minutes, which keeps it tender.

One Indian-inspired favourite of mine is mashed potato mixed with lemon juice, breadcrumbs, coriander and chilli, shaped into patties, fried and served with chutney and yoghurt.

There is nothing wrong with eating sweets, fried foods, pastries, even drinking soda every now and then, but food manufacturers have made eating these formerly expensive and hard-to-make treats so cheap and easy that we’re eating them every day.

Koshari is a cozy pile of warm carbs – traditionally, cooked rice, lentils, macaroni, and chickpeas, all mixed together – smothered in perky tomato sauce and buried in fried shallots.

I’m still trying to re-create a Ray Charles concert that I heard when I was fifteen years old, and all my nerve endings were fried and transformed, and electricity shot through me.

The food in Europe is pretty disappointing. I like fried chicken. But other than that Europe is great.

Fried vegetables, often overbattered and undercooked, tend to disappoint me with their tough or soggy crusts.

Contrary to popular belief, I eat all types of food. Fried food is my least favorite.

When I was alone, I lived on eggplant, the stove top cook’s strongest ally. I fried it and stewed it, and ate it crisp and sludgy, hot and cold. It was cheap and filling and was delicious in all manner of strange combinations. If any was left over, I ate it cold the next day on bread.

The Kentucky Fried Chicken corporation made a bobble head of me and sent it to my management. No card, nothing.

I have kind of a weird technique with zucchini. I cut it into small cubes; sweat it in olive oil, adding just a little oil at time so it crisps. Then I cover it with boiling water, not stock, which really brings out the flavor of the zucchini, add lemon, thyme, and serve it with burrata and a fried zucchini flower.

I love chicken. I love chicken products: fried chicken, roasted chicken, chicken nuggets – whatever. And going to Japan, I would see that these chicken were smoked and then grilled and then have this amazing crispy skin.

I love to make fried chicken.

I’m all or nothing. I’m either having fresh vegetables, or I’m eating fried fish.

I love fried food.

I was called fried eggs and all that at school. Size does matter.

The cooking standards for Italian food are less demanding than for French. All you need are some fried mozzarella and five pastas, and you’re in business.

No matter how your breading or batter is constructed, it serves the same function: Adding a layer of ‘stuff’ around the item being fried means the oil has a tough time coming in direct contact with it, and thus has a hard time transferring energy to it.

I’ve been eating honey since I was young. I’ve been putting it on everything. I put it on fried chicken, put it on peanut butter and jelly sandwiches, I put it on my cereal. What else do I put honey on? I put honey on my face. Man, honey is the essential item to life.

I’ve became a coffee drinker since I gave up boxing. I also love to eat anything cooked by a Jamaican. Carbs like rice, yellow yam, Renta yam, sweet yam. Also salt fish fried with onions.

My fried chicken is very simple. I pan-fry it in a skillet.

I’ve seen ‘Fried Green Tomatoes’ too many times. I love life stories told in flashback.

Gribenes have been referred to as Jewish popcorn or kosher pork rinds. It’s basically chicken skin fried in schmaltz. They’re crispy and mixed with fried onions. I’m telling you, when you have it with chopped liver, it’s the most incredible thing because you get this crunch and this surge of chicken flavor.

I’m from North Carolina, so I am really picky about my fried chicken.

For most teenage runners, the right foods means a varied diet, decreasing the amount of fat found in the typical American diet and replacing those calories with carbohydrates. Avoid saturated fats, such as those found in fried foods, and eat plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables.

Most Americans don’t shout their politics, much less blast it from their TVs while serving you fried pickles – that’s the Left.

Tossing doughnuts, fritters or fried dumplings in fennel sugar adds grown-up complexity without diminishing the indulgence factor.

Most people think I’m from New York or something. I was, like, 70 pounds heavier than what I am, and I didn’t get no girls… I was definitely more on the deep fried crab than I was on the baked chicken side.

There’s absolutely no soda in my diet. Lots of fruits and vegetables, and I stay away from fried foods.

That’s why you can’t be a true Yankee without winter: because all the best pleasures are earned – the fire, the fried oysters; the warmer seasons, too. Who knows the real worth of summer at the beach without a good taste of the seaside in winter?

Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It’s the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.

I like poached eggs, but I’ll make scrambled or fried or whatever anybody wants.

If I couldn’t have discipline, if I sit up eatin’ fried chicken in bed at night, I’d just as soon be dead. I take care of myself.

I knew I shouldn’t be eating fried chips, but I’m just not a fan of baked chips, as much as I tried them.

My favorite meal has always been fried chicken.

I grew up with an abundance of things from our garden, so fried food was not enjoyable.

I do have my cheat meals. I have Oreos inside the house right now, and I have beer and fried chicken and waffles. All that good stuff. But once it comes down to when I really want to get in shape and get lean, I’ll eat clean and go with whole foods.

Bleaching my hair for Two Moon Junction… my hair was fried and I looked like an idiot.

Everyone loves fried chicken, Don’t ever make it. Ever. Buy it from a place that makes good fried chicken.

For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I’ve eaten for as long as I can remember. My father used to make it; now, no one does it like me.

I think it’s fun to serve comfort food because it’s an instant ice-breaker. If somebody’s expecting fancy food, and you whip out some fried chicken, they feel like, you know, they can put their elbows on the table, and the etiquette police aren’t going to come out.

It was the cholesterol. I had two fried eggs a day for breakfast. I had no checkups for five years. I kept meaning to go. The doctor would probably say it was years of bad living. I’ve always had a good time. Maybe I’ve had too good a time.

I sometimes compare making a film to cooking. Some dishes need to be stewed, while others need to be fried.

I usually have three fried eggs every morning. It always has to be three: two is just not enough, and three won’t put me over edge.

My grandpa and I, whenever we would go to Myrtle Beach, we couldn’t wait to get there and have fried seafood.

I love fried chips, but they weren’t good for you, and I didn’t like the healthy options like rice chips.

I’ve fried my hair off. I’ve shaved my hair off. I’ve done it all.

I eat on time and am strictly against oily and fried foods.

There are a lot of food choices in Kyochon, but I personally recommend the double fried chicken and the Soonsal series – deep-fried, boneless chicken breast strips coated in a special rice batter.

Once cooked, unripe green plantains have the dense, starchy texture of taro. They are traditionally braised, fried, or mashed. A green plantain can go anywhere a potato can, making it a great choice to shake up your starch game.

For the most part, Australian diners are familiar with kimchi, Korean fried chicken and even bimbimbap – those deliciously nourishing bowls of rice topped with a rainbow of veggies and grilled meat – but that’s where some folks’ awareness stops.

We were never the family that ordered pizza, and my mom never came home with a bucket of fried chicken. My mom always made home-cooked meals. We always sat down at the dinner table as a family.

I learned so much in Laos. I learned that fried silkworm larvae are delicious. I learned how to make ant-egg salad.

The initials BP used to stand for British Petroleum, but like Kentucky Fried Chicken, they changed their name to improve their image. Apparently, ‘Petroleum,’ like the word ‘Fried,’ connoted a company too oily for American tastes.

I do all of the grocery shopping in my little family. I buy cheese, of many different kinds, sliced packaged meats and poultry, bagels, immense quantities of eggs, pre-made fried chicken. Milk. Bacon. It is insane how much dairy, deli and bakery stuff I buy.

No self-respecting Southerner will eat something baked, broiled, grilled, stewed, poached, sauteed, or flambeed when it can be deep fried.

My mother did a fried vegetable dish called ‘stuff.’ It’s fried potatoes and carrots. Then you add bell peppers, mushrooms and other softer vegetables. At the end you add onion. Then, you steam the dish with hot pepper cheese on the top and it melts down through the dish. It’s delicious. It’s wonderful.

I can’t eat bread, anything fried, or even drink a beer.

If someone said, ‘You’ve got to eat your next two meals at American fast-food restaurants,’ I would do one meal at Chipotle and one meal at Popeyes fried chicken.

Fried chicken is my husband’s favorite food.

A lot of people don’t know, but I love soul food. I love fried chicken and pork chops, all of that.

The cheapest gadget – and you don’t even have to spend a dime – is chopsticks from a Chinese restaurant. I use them for everything: to toss salads, to turn a piece of meat in the pan, to flip croquettes in the Fryolator, to whisk eggs for omelets, to stir eggs into fried rice when I make that for my daughters.

I definitely try to eat a healthy diet, but I am the first person to say I love unhealthy food. I would never tell you I don’t. I love fried chicken or mac and cheese. Do I order them all the time when I’m out at restaurants? No, though I do have one splurge meal a week.

I don’t know when the last time I had fried chicken was. Must’ve been years. As soon as I think about eating it, I think about the stomach ache I’d get.

They eat the dainty food of famous chefs with the same pleasure with which they devour gross peasant dishes, mostly composed of garlic and tomatoes, or fisherman’s octopus and shrimps, fried in heavily scented olive oil on a little deserted beach.

I put Tabasco sauce over everything. Or I put it on pretty much anything that wouldn’t taste gross – I mean, I wouldn’t put it on salad, but I like it on fried chicken, nachos… a lot of stuff.

I make amazing fried chicken. The secret is taco seasoning.

Trevor Murdoch is mad, bad and dangerous. He’s the only man I know that can strap a bucket of fried chicken on his back and ride a motor scooter across Ethiopia.

I like to eat a whole lot. I have an inner chubby girl, and her name is Mabel, and I feed Mabel a lot. I give her what she wants. If Mabel wants a honey bun, she gets it. If Mabel wants Krispy Kreme, she gets it. If Mabel wants fried chicken or ham hocks, she gets what she wants.

We grew up in Texas. We ate fried chicken and steak all the time. I didn’t eat sushi until I was 24.

I became a vegetarian in 1995. I had some fried chicken, and my teeth hit the bone. My mind said, ‘Dead bird, dead bird.’ It didn’t feel right, so I stopped. I kept eating fish until one day, in 1997, the chef brought my ginger-fried snapper with the head still on it.

I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It’s my go-to breakfast.

I was convinced you were not able to tell a consumer you can have a healthy fried chip or a good-tasting baked chip.

The best comfort food will always be greens, cornbread, and fried chicken.

It took me years to eat a lot of shellfish. I was probably 20 years old before I had even seen a shrimp cocktail. I like oysters, but fried.

Our big problem is that high-calorie, special-occasion foods like cakes, fried foods, etc. have become so cheap and easy that we eat them every day. Make them special again by cooking them yourself. You won’t do it every day, I promise.