Battered.
Read this in the voice of Mr. Peterman from Seinfeld.
" Elaine, did I ever tell you how I discovered the perfect dipping sauce for battered onion rings? We were in Chicago becoming budding psychologists, fearless healers of the mind. We happened upon a Greek carry out between the glitz and glamour of State Street and Michigan Avenue. Our prize was found beneath the L tracks on gritty Lower Wabash, a place where sunlight never reaches".
" Throwing caution to the wind, I ordered the gyro platter with extra tzatziki sauce, and battered onion rings instead of french fries. And a Diet Coca-Cola."
"Elaine, almost by an uncanny accident, I dipped the battered onion rings in the tzatziki sauce.........."