Mystie
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Post by Mystie on Aug 3, 2018 22:10:07 GMT
I'm visiting my childhood area in northeast Ohio right now, and we took my nephew and his girlfriend to a flea market and they saw a stand selling elephant ears and had no idea what that was.I wasn't sure if it was their youth that made them not know, or if elephant ear might be a regional term. So...do you know what an elephant ear is?
(Since I'm not near the board a lot this weekend, I'll go ahead and reveal that it's a big piece of fried dough sprinkled with powdered sugar or cinnamon sugar.)
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Post by MichyM on Aug 3, 2018 22:11:10 GMT
Yes, but the only place I've ever seen them is at the County or State Fair.
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Post by kristi521 on Aug 3, 2018 22:12:37 GMT
I do and love them! I’m in MI. I do believe it is a regional thing, I would think someone in Ohio would know what it is.
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Post by compeateropeator on Aug 3, 2018 22:12:52 GMT
Yes but it is not what we call them. ETA: We call them Fried dough or fried bread dough around these parts. Isn't that quite clever. I like mine with just a tab bit of pizza sauce and Parmesan (not very many vendors have the pizza sauce). Maple syrup on them is also quite popular around my area.
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Post by 950nancy on Aug 3, 2018 22:12:54 GMT
Yes, we used to get them for breakfast when we were little on vacation in Minnesota. Delicious!
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Post by peasquared on Aug 3, 2018 22:13:19 GMT
I do. I love them. I can't get any good ones around here, but the bakery in my hometown had the best ones! Now the cravings start!
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Post by KelleeM on Aug 3, 2018 22:15:30 GMT
I know what they are but around here (New England) we always just called it fried dough.
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Post by busy on Aug 3, 2018 22:15:48 GMT
Yes, but the only place I've ever seen them is at the County or State Fair. Yeah, they’re generally a festival/fair type thing. They also sell then at our zoo. I’ve never seen them at a bakery - I wouldn’t want one unless they’re frying it when you order it. They’re not nearly as good if they’ve been sitting. ETA: I’ve lived in Oregon & Washington almost my whole life and am not aware of any other name for them than elephant ears.
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Post by jennrs on Aug 3, 2018 22:16:30 GMT
Yes! I’m in Midwest and when I was a child the little carnival would come to town every year. Our yearly elephant ears were one of the things we so looked forward to.
Many years later I tried one at an amusement park and they just weren’t as good as I remembered them being.
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Post by workingclassdog on Aug 3, 2018 22:16:41 GMT
Nope never heard of it.
(if it is regional... I grew up Midwest and South mainly)
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Post by scraphollie27 on Aug 3, 2018 22:16:47 GMT
We call the Beaver Tails where I live
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janeliz
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Post by janeliz on Aug 3, 2018 22:18:35 GMT
Yes! Yum.
I can’t even remember the last time I enjoyed one, but I love both elephant ears and funnel cakes.
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Post by missbennet on Aug 3, 2018 22:18:42 GMT
Yes, but we call them palmiers.
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Post by amom23 on Aug 3, 2018 22:18:56 GMT
I knew what you were going to describe it as being, but we just called it fried bread around here. It's also used as the base of a taco that we call Indian Tacos.
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Post by melanieg on Aug 3, 2018 22:22:24 GMT
I grew up in Saskatchewan and live in Alberta. We call them Elephant Ears as well. They are yummy, but I prefer a good funnel cake.
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Post by Merge on Aug 3, 2018 22:22:46 GMT
Yes. There was a unique department store (not a chain) in downtown Omaha decades ago that had a bakery/cafe on its lower level. My mom used to treat me to an elephant ear when we went there (which was rarely).
Any Nebraska peas remember the name of that store? It had like 3-4 stories as I recall. This would have been in the late 70s.
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Post by **GypsyGirl** on Aug 3, 2018 22:24:14 GMT
An elephant ear is one of the ugliest and most obnoxious plants. Once you get them in your yard, they are nearly impossible to get rid of. Dealing with that right now due to an equally obnoxious neighbor who insists on planting things that encroach on my yard.
As for the food, that's a palmier to me. I prefer that type of 'elephant ear' to the ugly plant!
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Post by missbennet on Aug 3, 2018 22:25:11 GMT
I think I'm meaning something different - palmiers look the same shape as elephant ears, but they aren't fried. They're a typical buttery pastry that's baked so the sugar carmelizes.
GypsyGirl, the palmiers you are thinking of, are they fried? I'm pretty sure the ones my mom made were baked. I've never had one at the fair. Now I'm not sure if they are the same thing!
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Post by busy on Aug 3, 2018 22:28:23 GMT
An elephant ear is one of the ugliest and most obnoxious plants. Once you get them in your yard, they are nearly impossible to get rid of. Dealing with that right now due to an equally obnoxious neighbor who insists on planting things that encroach on my yard. As for the food, that's a palmier to me. I prefer that type of 'elephant ear' to the ugly plant! Palmiers are very different from the kind of elephant ears being talked about here. These are huge slightly puffy discs of freshly fried dough.
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Post by busy on Aug 3, 2018 22:29:19 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 22:30:38 GMT
Delicious that what it is
Fry bread is outstanding too!
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Belle
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Post by Belle on Aug 3, 2018 22:31:03 GMT
Yes - this is an elephant ear.
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Post by katlady on Aug 3, 2018 22:31:59 GMT
I had to google what they looked like since I never heard the term. I’ve seen those pastries before, but never hear the term elephant ear.
ETA - the picture Busy posted is different than what I found on google. That looks like a version of fry bread to me, we have those here.
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Post by Country Ham on Aug 3, 2018 22:32:45 GMT
That sounds a lot like what we called a Beaver Tail when I was growing up in Nova Scotia Canada
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Post by jen on Aug 3, 2018 22:32:48 GMT
Yes, it's a flat piece of fried dough at the state fair.
I like it with cherries on top but i can't remember the last time i had one.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 3, 2018 22:34:14 GMT
Yes, and I also grew up in Northeast Ohio
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Post by alexa11 on Aug 3, 2018 22:34:20 GMT
An elephant ear is one of the ugliest and most obnoxious plants. I was thinking plant, too. I have a huge planter full in my den-lol. They have been staked up so many times and almost touch the ceiling-leaves always falling over and breaking. I cut most of the leaves off last week!
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Post by eleezybeth on Aug 3, 2018 22:35:44 GMT
Yes, but I much prefer a funnel cake.
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Post by kate on Aug 3, 2018 22:36:30 GMT
That's what I always called them when I was growing up in Ohio.
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Post by cadoodlebug on Aug 3, 2018 22:44:53 GMT
Ha, I was going to say a plant we had in our yard in Hawaii.
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