Fried Dough (Pizza or cinnamon-sugar) at Square Events?

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

I've been living in The Villages 2.5 years, and have enjoyed events at all three squares. I can't recall ever seeing a fried dough truck at any of them. Have I just not noticed? Or have there not been any?

Is this something any of you would like? If it is, maybe we (or I, sure I'll do it) could give the Villages Entertainment a head's up. Maybe they could reach out to local food truck vendors and see if any of them offer fried dough (or know a vendor that does - most of them know each other).

I liked all three versions that I've had when I lived up north: fried dough pizza, with sauce and parmesan cheese...cinnamon-sugar fried dough...and butter and powdered sugar fried dough.

Really bad for that girlish figure but it's such a great treat once in awhile!

[Dotneko]

There was one at Brownwood a couple of months ago. I forget if it was a normal market day or
something special. I had a cinnamon sugar one and a lemonade :)

[thevillages2013]

I've been living in The Villages 2.5 years, and have enjoyed events at all three squares. I can't recall ever seeing a fried dough truck at any of them. Have I just not noticed? Or have there not been any?

Is this something any of you would like? If it is, maybe we (or I, sure I'll do it) could give the Villages Entertainment a head's up. Maybe they could reach out to local food truck vendors and see if any of them offer fried dough (or know a vendor that does - most of them know each other).

I liked all three versions that I've had when I lived up north: fried dough pizza, with sauce and parmesan cheese...cinnamon-sugar fried dough...and butter and powdered sugar fried dough.

Really bad for that girlish figure but it's such a great treat once in awhile!

In the south we call them funnel cakes. Been a while since I have had one

[Keefelane66]

I buy some pizza dough and make our own. Easy Peazy.

[Keefelane66]

In the south we call them funnel cakes. Been a while since I have had one
Similar but made with batter not dough comfort food.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Glad to know they're available down here, even if it's just once in awhile! And no I won't be making my own, and funnel cakes are definitely different. Same general idea but not the same.

[Pinball wizard]

zeppoles

[Stu from NYC]

zeppoles

Only good ones are in little Italy in Manhattan. Have the right amount of grease dripping off the powdered sugar

[asianthree]

Disney has the best funnel cakes. Well drained, 3 different kinds, with a special one for each event at Epcot, funnel cake is a thin light batter, similar to pancake or waffle batter, that is run thru a funnel into the hot oil, with a round lacy outcome. Then you can eat plain, add powder sugar, or cinnamon. Then top with fruit, ice cream, or all of the above.

OP you didn’t state what kind of dough, pie, pizza. If that’s what you are looking, you can use air fryer, or bake in the oven, for a quick snack. I keep pie dough cut into squares, in the freezer, and bake them for dessert, to add fresh fruit, or scooping fruit spread, or pudding

[Petersweeney]

How did some food become “comfort food” that was marketing genius - imagine George Washington asking Martha for some comfort food because he had a bad day at the office….

[bowlingal]

totally unhealthy

[merrymini]

Heart attack food…a terrific every now and then treat!

[Djean1981]

Yuck..

[Stu from NYC]

totally unhealthy

True but only have it every year or so

[Rzepecki]

zeppoles

Yum! At Little Joey’s.

[bjd0105]

NYPD pizza has zeppoles in cinnamon or powdered sugar. They are located on wedgewood in front of Wal-Mart on 466

[MandoMan]

I've been living in The Villages 2.5 years, and have enjoyed events at all three squares. I can't recall ever seeing a fried dough truck at any of them. Have I just not noticed? Or have there not been any?

Is this something any of you would like? If it is, maybe we (or I, sure I'll do it) could give the Villages Entertainment a head's up. Maybe they could reach out to local food truck vendors and see if any of them offer fried dough (or know a vendor that does - most of them know each other).

I liked all three versions that I've had when I lived up north: fried dough pizza, with sauce and parmesan cheese...cinnamon-sugar fried dough...and butter and powdered sugar fried dough.

Really bad for that girlish figure but it's such a great treat once in awhile!

I like fresh-fried doughnuts. That’s fried dough. In Brussels, street venders use yeast donut dough to make waffles that are fried. They are called Gaufres. It’s the national dish. Delicious!

There is also “Indian fry bread,” which is sort of like a cross between a tortilla made from bread dough and a pizza crust. I bought one alongside a road near the Grand Canyon from some Navajos who fried it on the spot. It was really greasy and not delicious at all. The first two might be a nice product food truck product. The last one, perhaps not.

[birdawg]

Only good ones are in little Italy in Manhattan. Have the right amount of grease dripping off the powdered sugar

Saint Genero festival

[Stu from NYC]

Saint Genero festival

Very true

[asianthree]

How did some food become “comfort food” that was marketing genius - imagine George Washington asking Martha for some comfort food because he had a bad day at the office….


According to my very southern family, that raised me ……When you brought food to their house it was to comfort the family, in illness or loss of a family member.

Eating food didn’t require any effort in their stress, Therefore providing comfort in their time of need. I actually have hand written recipes from great grandma’s, aunts, some over 100 years ago. Messages with some recipes that were the best comfort food, for illness and food for a loss.

Of course the small town my family came from, their hunting dogs, and beloved farm animals appear in the obits of the weekly paper. Yes food was delivered with love and comfort, in those Sad times also.

[mulligan]

Blimpy's at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Fresh squeezed lemonade, and a slab of fried dough with chopped walnuts and honey.

[OrangeBlossomBaby]

Disney has the best funnel cakes. Well drained, 3 different kinds, with a special one for each event at Epcot, funnel cake is a thin light batter, similar to pancake or waffle batter, that is run thru a funnel into the hot oil, with a round lacy outcome. Then you can eat plain, add powder sugar, or cinnamon. Then top with fruit, ice cream, or all of the above.

OP you didn’t state what kind of dough, pie, pizza. If that’s what you are looking, you can use air fryer, or bake in the oven, for a quick snack. I keep pie dough cut into squares, in the freezer, and bake them for dessert, to add fresh fruit, or scooping fruit spread, or pudding

Fried dough pizza is not pie dough. It's not batter. Anyone who's had the food item known as "fried dough pizza" knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's a very common treat at carnivals and county fairs. And some vendors offer the sweet variety, which is the exact same dough, but instead of putting tomato sauce and parmesan cheese on it, they put cinnamon sugar mix on top, or brush with butter and coat it with powdered sugar.

And no, you absolutely don't air fry it or make it yourself. The whole point of it is to have someone else make it, and buy it from them, at a public event where other food trucks and food vendors congregate. It is never packaged and refrigerated or frozen, it is never served cold. It's served right out of the frying vat.

[Geodyssey]

In the south we call them funnel cakes. Been a while since I have had one

Funnel cake is not fried dough. Funnel cake is made by dropping a batter into oil. Fried dough is fried bread dough.

[Geodyssey]

totally unhealthy

Why?

Is bread "totally unhealthy"?

Is frying oil?

That's the ingredients in fried dough.

People have been eating bread and oil for 1,000s of years.

[Bridicalder]

I've been living in The Villages 2.5 years, and have enjoyed events at all three squares. I can't recall ever seeing a fried dough truck at any of them. Have I just not noticed? Or have there not been any?

Is this something any of you would like? If it is, maybe we (or I, sure I'll do it) could give the Villages Entertainment a head's up. Maybe they could reach out to local food truck vendors and see if any of them offer fried dough (or know a vendor that does - most of them know each other).

I liked all three versions that I've had when I lived up north: fried dough pizza, with sauce and parmesan cheese...cinnamon-sugar fried dough...and butter and powdered sugar fried dough.

Really bad for that girlish figure but it's such a great treat once in awhile!

Up north they are called “elephant ears”. Yummmm

[coffeebean]

In the south we call them funnel cakes. Been a while since I have had one

Fried dough is not the same as a funnel cake. I have had both. The texture is completely different and the shapes are also completely different.

[coffeebean]

zeppoles

There you go!!! That's it.

[coffeebean]

Only good ones are in little Italy in Manhattan. Have the right amount of grease dripping off the powdered sugar

Oh what memories......Zeppoles at the Feast of San Gennaro on Mulberry Street., NYC.

[Garywt]

Blimpy's at Hampton Beach, New Hampshire. Fresh squeezed lemonade, and a slab of fried dough with chopped walnuts and honey.

I use to go to Happys at Salisbury beach all the time.

[Garywt]

Fried dough pizza is not pie dough. It's not batter. Anyone who's had the food item known as "fried dough pizza" knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's a very common treat at carnivals and county fairs. And some vendors offer the sweet variety, which is the exact same dough, but instead of putting tomato sauce and parmesan cheese on it, they put cinnamon sugar mix on top, or brush with butter and coat it with powdered sugar.

And no, you absolutely don't air fry it or make it yourself. The whole point of it is to have someone else make it, and buy it from them, at a public event where other food trucks and food vendors congregate. It is never packaged and refrigerated or frozen, it is never served cold. It's served right out of the frying vat.

We make fried dough all the time during lent, makes a great Friday supper. We use bread dough which is similar to pizza dough. If you put sauce and cheese on your fried dough, that is what people are calling fried dough pizza. I stick with butter and sugar and my wife likes it with apple jelly.

[asianthree]

Fried dough pizza is not pie dough. It's not batter. Anyone who's had the food item known as "fried dough pizza" knows exactly what I'm talking about. It's a very common treat at carnivals and county fairs. And some vendors offer the sweet variety, which is the exact same dough, but instead of putting tomato sauce and parmesan cheese on it, they put cinnamon sugar mix on top, or brush with butter and coat it with powdered sugar.

And no, you absolutely don't air fry it or make it yourself. The whole point of it is to have someone else make it, and buy it from them, at a public event where other food trucks and food vendors congregate. It is never packaged and refrigerated or frozen, it is never served cold. It's served right out of the frying vat.

Ahhh gave you an option of making it your self, if you couldn’t find anywhere close. Won’t make that mistake again to be chastised for your lack of web surfing. However usually fried dough at carnival is called elephant ears, that is not made out of pizza dough.

Try a carnival, or state fair, they all have something fried. You can find events on google, to your heart’s content, then you don’t have to be so angry over options others post.