Savor NY: Fried Twinkie

Deep fried oreos, deep fried pizza, heck, there's even deep fried scorpion out in Arizona.

People across the county have thrown everything imaginable into cooking oil, but there's one fried treat with roots in Brooklyn.

A sweet, cream filled snack first created just outside of Chicago, and a man from Britain with a love for tossing things into a fryer. The two collided in Park Slope, Brooklyn, nearly two decades ago in what became the fried Twinkie.

Christopher Sell had opened a fish-and-chips spot in the borough.  He told the New York Times that the bodega nearby had a surplus of Twinkies, so he bought the cream filled snack and threw them in the fryer. He added some berry sauce to add some tart, and wah-lah, the fried Twinkie was born.

''That's what you do in a chip shop,'' Sell said to the Times. ''You buy a bunch of things and toss them in the deep-fryer until you hit on something that actually tastes good.''

The fried pastry gained national attention as it started being served at fairs across the country. Marla Calico,   President and CEO of the International Association of Fairs and Expositions, has seen her fair share of fried foods. She said the most popular things dunked in oil tend to be the foods high in fat

" The ones that have a tendancy to stay on and last are like deep fried butter and deep fried sweets which are still out there. "

The fried Twinkie is still served at the ChipShop in Brooklyn. It also found a home in the Wal-Mart freezer aisle a few years ago.