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Deep Fried Mars bars were never a myth

true,had deep fried mars bars in wales,and round here in the Black Country we've had deep fried creme eggs,marathons,mince pies and xmas pudding and do you know what? they were all bloody lovely!!!!!!:blah:
 
St.Clair said:
D'ye know that he was also partial to squirrel? Fried peanut butter and banana sandwiches are delicious!
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Now I wonder what ole Elvis was drinking with that sammich?
 
another oxfordian willing to come and eat mars bars with you lot, here!
 
Excellent... However, before we all go rushing off down there to partake of battered Mars bars, has anyone seen or heard anything of mejane since she stopped off there?
I wouldn't like to be responsible for more people (myself included!) vanishing never to be seen again! :)

Steve.
 
:) Not to worry, I'm still here! :)

Never did make it to the Carfax chippy, sad (?) to say as Sis reacted badly to the anaesthestic and we decided to get a taxi home (35 quid!!!). She's okay now - we are a sturdy lot :)

I'm still happy to try it out though - a beer or three before (ginger beer for young faggus, if the barthing is watching ;) ), then late lunch? Possibly a wander around the Pitt Rivers museum?

Jane.


EDIT: pm me if anyone is interested -I'll post this in the Announcements thread too.

EDIT 2: I have it good authority (friend of my sisters - not a foaf) that another chippy in Oxford(shire) still does deep-fried choccy delights on a bring-your-own-basis. So, I suggest buying a box of Celebrations minutures and saying "eh, duck, fancy giving this a fry?" :D
 
Bilderberger said:
One of the Nigella Lawson books has a recipe that exact combination - apparently it is orgasmic (well, thats what Nigella would make it look like).
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her progs look like a soft core pornos (ahem not that i seen one!!!)especily the soft blery shots!

different subject (for the cat thread??????) have u smellt and seen the meat and gravy in tins/pounchs for cats they look smell grate not that i would eat them.
 
I have found one in Kilmarnock that serves them. I will try to get a picture of their sign that clearly states that they sell 'em!
 
Battered Mars bars were on the menu in a number of chip shops in my town. You could get battered crunchies too.
 
If you really want to eat such junk, might I suggest deep-fried Dubble bars or deep-fried Maya Gold - about the only choccy bars which are made with Fairtrade cocoa. :grrr:

Bill
 
mmmmmmm

Caught a show detailing this last night... it was the top 5 fried treats (sadly, I missed the last three). The first reviewed was Deep Fried Mars bars... it told the history we've gone through here... then showed some being made. Interestingly, they're available in the states in a least one location, A Salt and Battery in NYC. They import UK Mars bars, because US ones have nuts in them.
Also mentioned deep fried pizza and fries. Why was this ever an urban legend?
 
Deep fried Mars bars no myth

Greets

Deep fried Mars bars no myth

08:33, Dec 17 2004


Thousands of deep-fried Mars bars are being sold in Scotland each week, a Glasgow-based health worker has found.

Dr David Morrison, Consultant in Public Health Medicine at NHS Greater Glasgow, took on the study after the delicacy was mentioned on Jay Leno's US TV show.

He found that more than one in five (22%) of fish and chip shops across Scotland sell deep-fried Mars bars.
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http://iclanarkshire.icnetwork.co.u...e=deep-fried-mars-bars-no-myth-name_page.html

(split the url coz line woz too long)

Mal
 
I didn't think it was a myth to begin with. Never seen one, let alone tried it, though :)
 
I have at a chip shop in Bakewell, Derbyshire. Very sickly, very greasy and delicious :D
 
I was in Edinborough a couple of years ago on a work paid Xmas pish up and I went in about 4 or 5 chippies and couldn't find one that did deep fired Mars bars or Pizzas (much to my disappointment) and just assumed that it was either a U/L or they don't serve them to pished up sassanachs.
 
While I like fried foods, I like chocolate periodically and I'm known to be adventurous in my eating habits this has always sounded disgustingly sickly to me!

I can't help feeling this is a self-fulfilling urban legend. The usual legendary thing is imagined then someone thinks "hang on, I wonder what it really tastes like?" and tries making it. Presto! The legend creates the truth!

Anyhow, why is it alleged to be a "Northern" thing? Does it symbolise the scorn for 'soft' healthy-eating Southerners? Is it a Southern comment on the 'ignorant' eating habits of those past the Wall?
 
Stormkhan said:
Anyhow, why is it alleged to be a "Northern" thing? Does it symbolise the scorn for 'soft' healthy-eating Southerners? Is it a Southern comment on the 'ignorant' eating habits of those past the Wall?
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According to The Times (which also had a similar article today), and i quote:

"The birth of the battered Mars bar has been traced to The Haven, a chip shop in Stonehaven which has since closed. It is thought that it originated in a bet struck between the shop's owner and his portly best friend". Today the shop is run by Calum Richardson. "it doesn't suprise me they have become so popular. They are not my cup of tea but some weeks we sell as many as 300. At first it was a novelty but not any more".

I think you're right with the healthy-eating thing Stormie, as the article also states "Scotland has among the highest incidence of heart disease, cancer and strokes, the worst teeth and the lowest life expactancy in the developed world". Actually, that smacks more of appalling education, cavalier attitude to looking after you body and a low-intensity death wish. But still, it is ONLY Scotland after all :D
 
I feel at this point it's worth noting that my teeth have no fillings, never needed any orthodontic correction and yet I eat at least one confection a day (often two or more ;) The dentist has never said anything to me about sugar intake, his only suggestion was the fizzy drinks, for reasons I've explained on here at least twice before :)

I'm also thin, and attempting to get more fit again lately by using my bike more again, which is going well so far. Can't say anything about my life expectency as I don't know what that would be, but I also don't smoke or drink ;)
 
I would think that the deep fried pizza is more common.

My own particular experience of this came in a chip shop in Ardrossan whilst waiting to get the ferry over to Arran.
My then partner and I went into a chippy and she asked for a pizza as per the menu board. We were a bit puzzled when the proprietor emerged from the back with a pizza that disappeared behind the counter. Things became clearer after a couple of minutes when he fished it out dripping with fat and put it in the glass-fronted bit where the fish, scallops, etc are usually drained for a few seconds, before serving it in a sheet of paper.

It was a bit grim, I have to say...
 
There used to be a Fish and Chip Shop not far from here that sold deep-fried Bananas. I never tried one but i saw the sin in the window so i consider that at least circumstantial evidence that they existed.

Is that the healthy-option?
 
Quite a few Chinese places will do you a banana fritter, which is prepared in pretty much the same way as you'd expect a deep fried banana.. except with batter and sauce of course.
 
I've heard about 'deep fried curries' being served in Glaswegian chip-shops, although I'm not exaclty sure how you go about deep fring a curry. :confused:
 
Deep fried Mars Bars have been out for years. About 7 or so years ago I was on holiday with my family in Inglemells (near Skegness) when we found a chip shop that sold them. My step-sister had one (I didn't, because I dislike Mars Bars) and apparently they're very nice. Not very healthy, mind :lol:
 
Deep-fried Mars Bars, Deep Fried Pizzas ( :cross eye ), Deep Fried etc.etc.

All these stories imply that northerners, especially the Scots, have an obession with bunging any stuff in batter and frying it! If it's true, it's bloody silly. If it's false, it's a bigoted sneer! I'm not exactly a healthy eater but it conjures the impression of some wanker who works in a chip shop laughing and saying "Oh yeah, I can deep-fry anything and the slobs will eat the shite!" It's an insult ... and I'm not even Scottish. So I suppose I shouldn't say anything but point at them and scorn!

Banana fritters are nice but very sweet. They make a good dessert. Same goes with apple fritters.
I once tried deep frying an egg. It was okay to eat but messed up my deep fat fryer no end!
 
Mmmmm.......deep fried eggs......... :D Last time I had one of those was as a child. My mum used to do them occasionally, makes the edges very crispy.
 
Back in the mid-90s, the chip van (mobile MI provider) where I used to live sold pretty much every form of confection deep-fried. I always wanted to try the deep-fried cream egg, but never quite got round to it.

There is chippie (or chipper to those not from Edinburgh) in Glasgow that sells the "stonner" - pork sausage, wrapped in donner kebab meat and deep-fried. 1000 calories and 46g of fat per portion. One per customer per week, apparently.
 
FT had a thing about deep fried Mars bars years ago. I wrote them a letter about it (in the mid 90's), the gist of which was:

I was in a chip shop in Truro (not very far north, unless you live on the Lizard!) with a colleague, and told him I'd heard about this weird Scottish habit. But then we looked at the menu board, and guess what we found!

(I may even have posted that story before on this MB, but I can't be bothered to search for it. But if I did post it, some Mod now has a good merging opportunity!! :D )
 
ah ryn... the chip van up the industrial estate did deep fried cream eggs last easter...no need to go forign parts like Truro!
 
We were in Whitby a few weeks back, perusing the local chippies for delicacies... and there they were... fried mars bars, fried pizza slices...

yum! :p
 
Gyrtrash said:
We were in Whitby a few weeks back, perusing the local chippies for delicacies... and there they were... fried mars bars, fried pizza slices...

yum! :p
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I can't help but imagine - because of the chip shop association - that the mars bars might taste slightly fishy. Which is a repulsive thought. :(
 
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