Fried Green Tomatoes: Wickedly Wonderful or Wonderfully Wicked? 😋

[Floyd R. Turbo]

[yallerdawg]

1. I've heard...

"the secrets in the sauce.'

[Floyd R. Turbo]

12. Believe it! 😋

[PJMcK]

2. Yummy!

They’re especially good at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

13. Ive heard the barbecue is mighty fine too! 😏

[PJMcK]

24. Good one! (n/t)

[procon]

3. I've never seen green tomatoes in my local groceries.

I've only eaten them a few times while visiting relatives in central Calif and we bought some at a huge farmer's market, but I honestly don't recall what they tasted like.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

14. Large chains typically dont carry them except in the South and Midwest. We get them at

smaller specialty stores!

[Hoyt]

4. Have eaten them at the Whistle Stop Cafe.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

15. Try the barbecue! 😏

[Lochloosa]

5. With a Vidalia Onion Chutney....oh my.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

16. Yum! 😋

[Marthe48]

6. I make them but I don't like them

My family does. We'll have a fry in the late summer: zucchini,green tomatoes and sweet onion rings. And corn on the cob, green beans, fresh tomatoes, cukes, and peppers. I better stop. I'm wishing away half a year

[Drahthaardogs]

10. I don't get the appeal of a lot of Southern food.

Fat and salt predominate the flavors for so much of it.

The BBQ is good though

[nolabear]

34. You clearly dont include Cajun and Creole with Southern.

Some of the finest herbs on the planet goes into it.

[Drahthaardogs]

36. I agree on Cajun and Creole

Great cuisine, but I would consider that "Louisiana cuisine", not "Southern food"

[nolabear]

37. The whole Gulf Coast really. But I gather you mean

pork and biscuits and fried chicken and such.

[Drahthaardogs]

40. Yes.

That is how I associate it

[nolabear]

41. Wonderful food if you can tolerate it.

You likely know but it’s poverty food. Grease, flour and salt, made remarkable by whatever you can get-neck bones, gizzards, poke salet, green tomatoes because you’re hongry today, not in June.

It’ll kill you but for decadence and if you’ve got the money to eat high on the hog (I.e. not the feet) it’s good for special. Pass the fried okra. 😄

[Drahthaardogs]

42. It's a bit redundant

I grew up on New Mexico and Piedmontese cuisine, also peasant food but lots of different ingredients and techniques

[Floyd R. Turbo]

17. May I have your portion! 😋

[Marthe48]

33. Sure!

Let me have the zukes and the onions!

[sinkingfeeling]

7. Delicious.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

18. 😋

[ploppy]

8. Love them!

Also loved the book and the movie.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

19. A threefer! 😋

[applegrove]

31. Loved the book and movie.

[Glorfindel]

9. Meh...not my favorite. I can take or leave them, but I don't like hot sauce.

n/t

[Floyd R. Turbo]

20. Love em! With bleu cheese dressing and hot sauce for dipping! 😋

[geardaddy]

11. Oh, I thought you meant the movie!

[Floyd R. Turbo]

21. Kidder!

[OriginalGeek]

22. My favorite steak house serves them as an appetizer

cut thick and accompanied by goat cheese and drizzled with some balsamic concoction. Our appetizer plates go back so clean they don't have to wash them.

On the rare occasion when we exhibit a modicum of self-control, we'll have some goat cheese left over to spread on the warm, crusty bread they bring.

[Floyd R. Turbo]

23. Oh man! 😋

[Shrek]

25. I get them in a basket along with onion rings and fried pickles

It's pretty much like a salad.

[ploppy]

27. That's my kind of salad.

[MontanaMama]

26. We have a local Cajun restaurant

that serves a fried green tomato BLT po-boy that I fantasize about. Is that weird?

[nolabear]

35. Not a bit. Do I have to come to Montana?

Because I might consider it. 😄

[MontanaMama]

38. Yes!

You should nolabear ans I will take you the Cafe Zydeco for a fried green tomato BLT po-boy.

[nolabear]

39. ...

[matt819]

28. I made some s few years ago

I was skeptical but my daughter insisted. I loved them.

[MustLoveBeagles]

29. Yum

I've made them. I like dipping them in Ranch dressing.

[guillaumeb]

30. delicious.

In moderation.

[SamKnause]

32. I like them but not sliced so thick.

[Sancho]

43. One of my favorites...

[yellowdogintexas]

44. did not like them as a kid, but I love them now

Panko crumbs make especially good FGT