Deep-fried things that ought not be deep-fried

Posted by Xeni Jardin, January 8, 2008 6:17 PM | permalink

Following up on today's BBtv episode about deepfried cellphones, Dario Agosta writes in...

Just finished watching your exilarating video segment on BBtv about the cellphone - deep-frying party (hmmm, wonder how my motorola would taste, tried to get rid of it for years to no avail), and suddenly it dawned on me: I have a friend, Mirko, who is a designer and an artist who *actually* fries... well pretty much everything.
Yes, I have weird friends. Um, no, come to think of it he's one of the most normal ones. Here is a picture of a deep-fried iPod, more on his site: Link.

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#1 posted by DGHilton , January 8, 2008 7:53 PM

Reminds me of a movie I've been wanting to download. In it, a young Japanese schoolgirl with a machine-gun arm gets it deep-fried in tempura batter.

http://hiltonjapan.blogspot.com/2008/01/machine-girl-is-coming.html

Cool stuff.

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#2 posted by eosjack , January 8, 2008 7:59 PM

Ah, what a beautiful manifestation of the Flying Spaghetti Monster.

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#3 posted by Takuan , January 8, 2008 8:05 PM

Truly, His Divine countenance is everywhere, all hail the FSM!

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#4 posted by Warren Camishen , January 8, 2008 8:06 PM

mngd t vst svrl CNTY FRS ths smmr nd LL F THM hd t lst n r mr stnds whr n cld brng n NYTHNG (frsh mt, frt, Mrs brs, Frsbs...) nd thy'd dp fry t fr y.

's bvs thr's n ngng cmpttn mng mrcn dp fryr ppl t fnd th prfct DP FRY-BL (nd dbl) tm.

hr tht dp frd SKNK cn't b bt, spclly f y lv th glnds n.

s my lng dcsd GRNDPPPY sd t sy:

"f t n't dp frd, t n't wrth pttng n yr mth!"

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#5 posted by doctormatt , January 8, 2008 8:27 PM

Scott Snyder has done a bit with beany babies along these lines:
http://www.culturalcoroner.com/Site/51BBC8A4-665E-11DC-90B4-000D934B11A6.html

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#6 posted by thegayrecluse , January 8, 2008 8:45 PM

I hate to be a buzzkill, but am I the only one who thinks the deep-frying of all things under the sun is kind of "last year" (or even the one before that) and doesn't exactly qualify as "wonderful"? Yawn.

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#7 posted by Takuan , January 8, 2008 8:58 PM

you worship your way..... (infidel)

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#8 posted by simplehuman , January 8, 2008 9:13 PM

Gayrecluse:

I'd second your buzzkill in that I wonder if the tech getting fried could not have been re-purposed into something better? To start with programs like

http://www.cellphonesforsoldiers.com/
http://www.recellular.com/recycling/index.asp
http://www.snbw.org/donate/cellphone.htm

That's just from a quick search, I know many Women's Shelters and schools who would love to get their hands on cellphones, ipod, functional or otherwise.

Yeah, it's funny and kitschy and cute, but it's also pretty wasteful when there are a great many people who could make excellent use of that tech.

And personally, the thought of deep fried plastic makes me want to yarf.

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#9 posted by Takuan , January 8, 2008 9:29 PM

the amazing power of art.

someone fries a half-dozen broken/obsolete bits of plastic and metal worth perhaps 23 cents and people notice enough to comment

meanwhile, Rome is in flames and train loads of consumer "surplus" head for the landfill

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#10 posted by doplgangr , January 8, 2008 11:28 PM

i guess it beats deep-frying bacon.

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#11 posted by danielh , January 9, 2008 12:56 AM

A friend of mine created an artwork series titled 200 fried tapes:
http://www.kuschmirz.de/200tapes.html
Its amazing! Well worth a look.

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#12 posted by Takuan , January 9, 2008 1:03 AM

no batter! therefore not Art!

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#13 posted by Simon Greenwood

, January 9, 2008 2:12 AM

There is a fish and chip shop in central Edinburgh that will deep fry anything if you ask them. It's on Newington Road and has a rotating selection of chocolate on the menu. At this time of year, the Creme Egg is the speciality. The effect when biting into one is reportedly like eating sugary lava.

It's amazing what happens when you search for things. It just reminded me that there is a local deep fried speciality in South and West Yorkshire. Chip shops take cooked potato (it might be left over chips), shape it into rounds, optionally add a slice of fish, batter it and deep fry it. They are called scallops, although they're nothing like the shellfish. Down on the south coast they take a handful of mushy peas, batter them, and deep fry them as a pea fritter. I still don't know how we missed that.

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#14 posted by Radio Tirana , January 9, 2008 3:34 AM

Is this mix of important subjects and the most blatantly inane that makes Boing Boing a...

don't know

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#15 posted by Matt Staggs

, January 9, 2008 5:58 AM

You got it, SIMPLEHUMAN.
Jeez, what a waste.

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#16 posted by e_to_the_m , January 9, 2008 8:14 AM

It's nice to know that the work of Beavis & Butthead is being carried on...

My friend, Drew, did a series of deep-fried books.