Has TGI Friday's lost their mind?

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by ecupidelta

This is not the worse thing I've ever heard of being deep fried. Each year at our state fair I'm scared to see what comes next. So far we have deep fried twinkies, oreos and pickles.

Anthem, a pretty solid/respected restaurant in Boston, serves fried twinkies as well. I heard they're pretty good.

[RU OX Alum]

Originally Posted by ecupidelta

This is not the worse thing I've ever heard of being deep fried. Each year at our state fair I'm scared to see what comes next. So far we have deep fried twinkies, oreos and pickles.

fried pickles are good

[kstar]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

Because it's true? Almost everything tastes good grilled also. But, I don't think grilled mac and cheese will turn out too well.

I admit that I like fried cauliflower. I tried it at a belly dance show a long time ago. I keep forgetting to make some at home.

Grilled mac and cheese is actually pretty good. You just have to have a very thick consistency of cheese.

However, fried mac and cheese sounds disgusting.

[KillarneyRose]

Originally Posted by honeychile

WHYOWHY do restaurants feel that everything tastes better when it's deep fried?!

Honey, how can you sit there with your Southern heritage and ask this???? lol Besides, things DO taste better when they're deep fried!

[honeychile]

Originally Posted by KillarneyRose

Honey, how can you sit there with your Southern heritage and ask this???? lol Besides, things DO taste better when they're deep fried!

I can ask that because I know that I may as well just tape the darn things to my waist, rather than eat them! Have you ever tried deep fried Reuben bites? Or hot dogs? Yummy! (unfortunately!)

Also, my ex - who has THE most limited palate in the world! - eats little but fried fish, french fries, and potato chips. I once asked his mother if he ate any vegetables, and with a completely straight face, she huffily said, "He eats french fries!"

[KSigkid]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

I just saw a commercial advertising three new appetizers. Two of them are just weird.

FRIED mac & cheese and string bean fries??? WTF?

Are they trying to comepete with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's weird food combos?

I've actually seen fried mac and cheese before - there are a couple of places that sell them in little tater-tot style pockets. Pretty good, although you'd need to run 100 miles to burn the calories in just one of those things.

[mulattogyrl]

Originally Posted by KSigkid

I've actually seen fried mac and cheese before - there are a couple of places that sell them in little tater-tot style pockets. Pretty good, although you'd need to run 100 miles to burn the calories in just one of those things.

I've also had fried mac and cheese - not bad.

Speaking of Fridays, I also read that they're changing their look because our generation can't relate to the 1920's stuff. Supposedly they're doing a retro type thing with 60's, 70's, and 80's designs. Should be interesting.

[BaylorBean]

My Hubby and I made fried Mac and Cheese last week. Its actually really good if you do it yourself, and not as bad for you. Alton Brown did it in one of his cheese episodes.

[EE-BO]

Originally Posted by Dionysus

I just saw a commercial advertising three new appetizers. Two of them are just weird.

FRIED mac & cheese and string bean fries??? WTF?

Are they trying to comepete with Pizza Hut and Taco Bell's weird food combos?

I think it is just the next step in a progressive move to make food that the average person finds "tasty"- addictive in a sense. And it will only get worse.

A few years ago I made a major shift in my eating habits and for a few months I ate only fresh fruits and vegetables, plus some meats that I had prepared from scratch. No butter, no fried food, no salt etc.

Since then, if I eat a burger at McDonald's, I am overwhelmed by the taste of grease and salt- something I had never noticed before.

People eating these kinds of diets get desensitized to the taste- but get a real high off the fats and sugars. But eventually you get used to it, and things have to go a step further.

Hence fried mac and cheese.

But the ultimate evil is lazy people who will let someone else cook their food for them for a profit. Any time in life you let someone else do something for you with profit as a motive, you are insane to think that your best interests will be their first priority.

I still eat burgers and things like that- but what I do not do is eat at places like TGI Fridays. I just can't do it anymore. I literally get ill.

On the other hand, I have relatives with small children who eat nothing but fast food and refuse anything else. It is surreal to sit down to an amazing homemade 12 hours-in-the-making Thanksgiving dinner made by my mother (who is an incredible cook), and then watch a relative sneak out to get Taco Bell for her children who won't touch it. One of these children at age 12 weighed more than I did in college.

Eating patterns, healthy or otherwise, are addictive in many subtle ways.

[valkyrie]

Originally Posted by EE-BO

On the other hand, I have relatives with small children who eat nothing but fast food and refuse anything else. It is surreal to sit down to an amazing homemade 12 hours-in-the-making Thanksgiving dinner made by my mother (who is an incredible cook), and then watch a relative sneak out to get Taco Bell for her children who won't touch it. One of these children at age 12 weighed more than I did in college.

Wow.