This contest will have a winner's gallery thread. It will be assumed that you grant permission to have your image (if a winner) posted in the winner's thread unless you advise otherwise.

Today's Theme - Fried food
Show us your best fried food photo!  Your photo may include a human model, but is not required to.

Tomorrow's Theme - Outdoors/Outside


The winner's gallery is here:
https://www.modelmayhem.com/po.php?thread_id=895661

Here are the abbreviated rules. 
If you have not participated in any/many MM Forum contests before, please read the full rules HERE.  If you are familiar with the MM Forum contest process, please read the abbreviated rules before participating.  Any questions?  Feel free to contact the contest host!

1. Only 1 entry per day to this contest
2. Only submit an image you were directly involved in creating
3. No re-submitting of the same image for 15 days
4. If you submit, you are expected to cast a vote!
5. Only one vote per person
6. No voting for an image you helped create
8. No voting before 12:00 PM, MM time (pacific), unless page 2 has been reached
9. No collages or multiple images
10. No Comments or titles.  Credits are okay
11.  No Vote Stacking!
12. MATURE images (18+) must be linked) and noted per MM rules! https://www.modelmayhem.com/help/rules/images
14. Once your image has been up for a few minutes, do not change it (removing completely is okay, but you may not enter a new, second image for that day)
15. Winning images will be retired from this contest
16. No fake foods allowed, only minimal post-editing work allowed

Thanks to everyone for their entries.

Food Photo of the Day for July 11th, 2013:

THEME:   “Fried”

Winner: dgold

Congratulations!

(To claim your badge for your profile, simply click "quote" to copy/paste the code.  For a smaller badge, please see the Winner's Gallery thread.)

Vote Tally:
dgold 4
Erin Koski 1
fdhphotography 2

NOTE: The hosts do not necessarily check the past competitions for posts beyond this one.  If you have any questions or complaints, please contact the host directly.