Properly known as "
Deep-fried cheese curds"
1 but usually sold simply as "cheese curds", these
amazing morsels are marvelously disgusting
carnival food sold in the
upper Midwest. Fresh cheese
curds are rolled about in
batter, then thrown into a boiling vat of
vegetable oil. The result are
popcorn-size
breaded bits of cheesy doom
oozing mightily with oil. The
breading is crunchy, the
cheese melty and smooth. After a few of them, the high
grease quotient begins to sink in and
sickness fills your stomach. But before that, you are filled with a few
perfect moments of Midwestern dairy
bliss.
(1) Some would contest this, and assert that the actual name is "Grease with Cheese".