TOD:
It's been popular for a while to deep fry everything at state fairs, like deep-fried Twinkies or deep fried Oreo cookies. I think I did try a fried Twinkie once. It was basically a Twinkie coated in funnel cake. It's really much too sweet.
I do love fried calamari. And there used to be a restaurant in Santa Monica that had extraordinary fish and chips where the batter was like netting and wasn't greasy at all. I've never found any other place that could make it like that.