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Wikipedia talk page: fried dough

Looking up the history of the beignet (I swear this is research-related), I found the following note: "It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Fried dough. (Discuss)"

And wow, that's quite the talk page. People take their fried dough seriously.

April 03, 2006 : 11:37 PM
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Wow, this is neat actually. Katrina-research related, may I wager?

Anyway, I'd like to consider myself kind of a beignet guru. It is true that beignets and 'fried dough,' the type of snack you might get at county fair do taste exactly the same, owing to the fact that they are both fried dough with powdered sugar on top.

But I will never get that same feeling of nastalgia eating 'fried dough' that I get when eating a plate of beignets with an iced coffee, a hangover, and oh lord how can it be 85 degrees and 90% humidity at 7:30 in the morning...

(Oh yeah, beignet is as I recall the literal French translation of the word donut.)
posted by Nels : April 04, 2006 11:43 AM : link to this comment

You really know how to describe an environment, Nels. What's your conenction with nola -- have you lived there?

And yes, it was (ahem, distantly) Katrina research.

My only experience with beignets was after Siggraph 99(?), the night after drinking the fluorescent green hurricanes sponsored by Nvidia, giddy in the French Quarter with several other undergrad researchers. And oh, they were tasty. (The beignets, not the undergrads.)
posted by Moira : April 04, 2006 11:57 AM : link to this comment

I am strongly opposed to merging beignets in with fried dough. The best beignets are not at Cafe DuMonde; they're on Ocracoke Island and they're filled with blue crab.
posted by Blue Hole : April 04, 2006 12:56 PM : link to this comment

I've never heard of any of those things. Funnel cakes anyone?
posted by Margaret : April 04, 2006 3:03 PM : link to this comment

Hey ya! New Orleans is the place of my birth, and my one true home. Fluorescent green hurricanes sound tasty! As do funnel cakes, which again seem to taste exactly the same as fried dough, beignets, etc.
posted by Nels : April 04, 2006 7:34 PM : link to this comment

I believe you meant Siggraph 2000 in New Orleans. You were quite a different person back then.
posted by Anonymous : April 05, 2006 1:33 AM : link to this comment

Yep, lazy me not looking up the actual year. Who is this?
posted by Moira : April 05, 2006 9:12 AM : link to this comment

'Beignet' is the diminutive form for donut ('beigne'), at least in the Canadian dialects I know. Those Parisians do all sorts of weird stuff with their language.

I found them to be non-orgasmic, the one time I was in New Orleans (for SODA 2004). I just can't handle that much fat and sugar anymore :(
posted by Benoit : April 08, 2006 12:54 AM : link to this comment

Something they don't tell you is that beignets must be consumed with chocolate milk. It's a fact!
posted by Nels : April 08, 2006 6:32 PM : link to this comment

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