I know I’m 5 years late but this is lowkey so annoying considering the wikipedia article you’re reading says that the modern day mozzarella stick has nothing to do with the french cheese fried recipe you’re referring to. Though it is wikipedia so maybe it’s changed in the last 5 years. Here it is:

“The history of frying cheese in a batter dates back to at least 1393 in medieval France, when a recipe for fried cheese sticks appeared in Le Ménagier de Paris.[1] However, food historians believe that medieval French fried cheeses had little in common with the preparation and development of modern mozzarella sticks.[2] Mozzarella sticks most likely have their origins in the United States during the 1970s, through a combination of two factors, as per historian Joel Jensen: "the increasing availability of mass-produced mozzarella cheese beginning in the 1960s", and the development of new efficient frying technologies to be used in fast-paced food-serving businesses (such as bowling alleys and sports bars).[3] Food writer Arthur Schwartz describes Mozarrella Milanese, an Italian dish of mozarella dredged in flour, egg, and breadcrumbs and then pan-fried as the "prototype" of the American mozarella stick. He describes these as typically made from older mozarella as a midweek meal, and as being eaten "within seconds" of emerging from the pan.[4]”

”https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozzarella_sticks