If you don't eat a lot of fried or greasy food, can you still end up with type 2 diabetes?

Yes, completely possible. Diet is one factor among several. Age, family history, ethnicity, where body fat is carried, and social/economic factors all play a documented role according to Diabetes Canada, and none of those are things diet alone controls. Someone with a genuinely reasonable diet can still develop type 2 diabetes if other risk factors are stacked against them, which is part of why it's misleading to treat diabetes as purely a "junk food" disease. References: https://obesitycanada.ca/healthcare-professionals/adult-clinical-practice-guideline/ https://guidelines.diabetes.ca/GuideLines/media/Docs/Quick%20Reference%20Guide/2024-CPG-Quick-Reference-Guide.pdf