Fried-ice cream is alive and well in the USA!

[Guest guest]

Well then, perhaps its an Aussie invention!

Sharon

Atti: i never heard of deep-fried ice-cream or seen it on the menu.

I've heard of the deep-fried mars bar (a chocolate candy for all you

Yanks) been eaten in Scotland, but never ice cream!

 

Lynn: I saw deep-fried ice cream showing up in Mexican restaurants at least

15 years ago, I guess. The first place I saw it on the menu, and where I

first ate it, was at Garcia's of Scottsdale, in Federal Way, Washington. I

know that is a lot of detail. I come from a family that can often link

landmarks and family holidays to Mexican food. I most definitely have never

heard of it being on Asian restaurant menus. The deep-fried ice cream I see

here is a single round scoop of vanilla ice cream, rolled in breading that

is mostly corn flakes, and it comes with a small variety of toppings, e.g.,

honey and strawberries, or chocolate, and all of it finished with a little

whipped cream.

 

There is very little frying, and thus very little oil, involved. But, I have

a book published a century ago, and used as a nutrition text at the Loma

Linda University in the decades before it was vogue to teach nutrition in

medical schools. This book says that the worst, most congestive food

combination that exists is milk, eggs and sugar! So, the sparseness of added

fat involved in the deep-frying process isn't anything to cheer about. The

ice cream will get you all by itself.