Fritter is a generic name that is used to describe a wide variety of different foods, both sweet and savoury, including vegetables, fish, meat and fruit, that have all been prepared in a similar way.
The base ingredient(s), whatever they are, are battered or breaded and then fried. In some cases, the ingredients are done whole, or from large pieces of the food in question, such as banana and pineapple fritters (the latter usually being pineapple rings), or alternatively they can be chopped or ground up and made into portions that are then battered or breaded.
Fritters can be found across the world with many cultures and countries having their own varieties. In Britain, fish and chip shops serve a range of fritters, including such things as Spam. The batter can vary from quite light, as in Japanese tempura, to fairly heavy, such as in the British chip shop batter.
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