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Thread ID: 16002 | Posts: 10 | Started: 2004-12-17
2004-12-17 07:49 | User Profile
[URL=http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1548&ncid=1548&e=1&u=/afp/20041216/lf_afp/afplifestylehealthfood_041216144522]Deep-fried Mars bar taking Scotland by storm[/URL]
Thu Dec 16, 9:45 AM ET
PARIS (AFP) - The deep-fried Mars bar, a nutritionist's nightmare that surfaced in Scotland about a decade ago, is now an established part of the Scottish culinary scene, according to a letter published in The Lancet.
Dipped in batter and then cooked in hot oil, the Mars bar is now on sale in more than a fifth of Scotland's 627 fish-and-chip shops, it says.
The average sale is 23 bars per shop per week, but some shops say they sell up to 200 a week, it records.
The deep-fried Mars bar first surfaced in news reports in 1995, reputedly originating in the eastern city of Aberdeen.
Promoters of Scottish tourism -- aghast at this damage to their efforts to highlight Scotland's history, culture and landscape -- joined with middle-class foodies in deriding the DFMB as media hype.
But this is untrue, say authors David Morrison and Mark Pettigrew of the Greater Glasgow NHS Board, who contend the snack is "deep and crisp and eaten."
"Scotland's deep-fried Mars bar is not just an urban myth," they say.
Health experts have condemned the deep-fried Mars bar as an artery-clogging catastrophe.
Scotland is already ranked as the country with the highest rate of chronic heart disease in Western Europe, a position that owes itself to cigarettes and alcohol as well as a poor diet and a love of sugary foods.
Critics should take heart, though.
The Mediterranean diet is penetrating into Scotland, "albeit in the form of deep-fried pizza," say Morrison and Pettigrew.
Pizza is one of several items that customers have asked shops to deep-fry, along with bananas, pineapple rings and creme eggs, a highly sweet confectionery.
The letter is published next Saturday's issue of the British medical weekly.
2004-12-17 08:50 | User Profile
This is frightening.
Walter
2004-12-17 18:05 | User Profile
This doesn't sound good to me at all, because I really don't care for sweets. However, as a Southerner, I am obligated to state that everything's better when it's deep-fried. :wink:
2004-12-17 18:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Quantrill]This doesn't sound good to me at all, because I really don't care for sweets. However, as a Southerner, I am obligated to state that everything's better when it's deep-fried. :wink:[/QUOTE]
Any doubters that Southerners are of predominately Celtic stock?
2004-12-17 18:48 | User Profile
Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
Deep-fried-anythings are a staple at our state fair. The process lends itself well to Twinkies and Snickers bars; not so well to hard-boiled eggs and pickles.
In any case, no worries about the negative health effects, as it's darn near impossible to consume more than one of any of these.
2004-12-17 19:02 | User Profile
From the [url=http://www.vnnforum.com/showthread.php?t=12905]VNN forum[/url]. > Full fry up 'Neeps and tatties (in Ox Lard not cooking oil) , Fried Bread with salted Beef Dripping, plate of fried Porage, then a deep fried Mars bar washed down with Iron bru. (For those not of Highland descent, IronBru is an ethnic-market segment carbonated drink filtered through old socks made by my old school friend Ian Barr aka Barrs of Glasgow) .
Is this the best breakfast ever? or enough to make you feel as sick as a LilyPad with a window frame upon its head?
But then again, I am Scottish. I'll stick with eggs, ham and grits, thank you.
2004-12-18 10:51 | User Profile
[QUOTE=EDUMAKATEDMOFO]Don't knock it 'til you've tried it.
Deep-fried-anythings are a staple at our state fair. The process lends itself well to Twinkies and Snickers bars; not so well to hard-boiled eggs and pickles.
In any case, no worries about the negative health effects, as it's darn near impossible to consume more than one of any of these.[/QUOTE]
Ever tried deep-fried ice cream? Delicious.
2004-12-18 19:28 | User Profile
Quantrill
Yes! :cheers: [QUOTE]However, as a Southerner, I am obligated to state that everything's better when it's deep-fried.[/QUOTE]
2004-12-18 21:24 | User Profile
Mars bars, Twinkies, Snickers, [color=red][u]ice cream[/color][/u] f'chrissake! Will someone please be so kind as to explain to me how you can deep fry something that ***melts!?
2004-12-18 22:56 | User Profile
Opera, Very high oil temps. The idea is to fry the batter to golden within seconds and leaving the center unharmed.