12/18/2004: Fried Mars bar a delicacy in Scotland

[Karenv]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

Deep fried Mars bar? That's disgusting.
Now a deep fried Snickers...yes, that would be a tasty treat.
I read somewhere the Scots have the highest sugar consumption rate so this would compliment that nicely.

My arteries are hardening just reading about it.

The Scots have the highest sugar consumption in the world? I'd expect the Israelis. At least the Orthodox Jews here have an incredibly high consumption of candy according to a friend who is a dentist in that community. (Most of it is pareve, so you don't have to wait hours after to eat your meat or dairy meal.) Or in Muslim lands where it is believed that sweet delicacies are a foretaste of Heaven.

Couldn't find a percapita sugar consumption list, but Cuba was cited as one of the highest 60-80 kg/capita versus 30-40 here and other sugar-producing countries are higher than industrialized countries.