Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!feeder3.eternal-september.org!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Mandrake the Perihelion Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking Subject: Re: Nathan"s Onion Rings. Meets Expectations Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2025 21:11:12 -0500 Organization: Justification Lines: 40 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net qvaKw6v41cQC+dgUwvtHVALcbK1eETO71e1k97i0LRKdbjnasL Cancel-Lock: sha1:13jyHuB94PRemKNe6+DTG4+g7HE= sha256:peM529DSDxfh3uQaWGDzZU4iXgR6BnvPtx9mvIEB2js= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.20 In-Reply-To: Ed P wrote: > On 4/10/2025 9:50 PM, Jill McQuown wrote: >> On 4/10/2025 7:51 PM, Ed P wrote: >>> I bought some frozen Nathan's Onion rings and made them for dinner >>> tonight.  They met expectations.  To clarify, my expectations were >>> extremely low. >>> >>> They cooked up nicely in the air fryer in 13 minutes.  Nice and >>> crispy and you would expect.  That is the good news.  The only good >>> news. >>> >>> Onion rings is a poor description.  A more accurate description would >>> be:  A ring of breading formed around a very thin vegetable membrane. >>> >>> They will be featured in an episode of Meals for Lazy Old People. >> >> I've never liked onion rings.  I do remember when I first moved here >> to SC my mother had at least 6 bags of frozen battered onion rings in >> the freezer.  I believe the brand was Ore Ida.  I asked her if she >> wanted me to heat up some onion rings in the oven and she said no. >> Apparently my dad liked them so she kept buying them but she forgot >> they already had some.  I wound up throwing away a lot of frozen onion >> rings.  I won't be trying the Nathan's brand. ;) >> >> Jill > > > I like them if they are properly made with a decent amount of onion. > I've not had them in ages so thought I'd give them a try. > > Some years ago I had some that were made from chopped onion and somehow > extruded to be a coated ring.  They were far better than these. I like them if they are from Burger King. Those tastefree onions with the mild battering are better than curly fries. I'm ordering some on Doordash right now with a beef sub whatever they call them like Happy Clown Submarine Thermoyle you know? -- What can I say to have you at es?