12/18/2004: Fried Mars bar a delicacy in Scotland - Page 2

jinx · 12-19-2004, 11:02 AM

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Originally Posted by YellowBolt

Ever tried yam firess before? You cover a chunk of yam in batter and fry it. Mmm...

The sweet potato is my favorite piece in a tempura order, but I love it all.

wolf · 12-19-2004, 12:38 PM

Scotch eggs and corn fritters are food served in heaven. Oh yeah, baby.

You folks probably think that's weird, but most of you don't have scrapple.

404Error · 12-19-2004, 01:07 PM

"I do not like green eggs and scrapple, I do not like them, Sam I am."

well, you get the point...

jinx · 12-19-2004, 01:13 PM

Scrapple is nasty.

xoxoxoBruce · 12-19-2004, 01:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Karenv

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.

It was a National Geographic article on Scotland and mentioned how the high sugar consumption correlates with the growing practice of giving dentures as a 21st birthday gift but that could be outdated now.
The US peaked in '99 at about 150 lbs per person.
I have a feeling any decline is attributable to the rise in other forms of sweeteners. I bought a jar of peanut butter that had a large notice emblazoned across the jar, "NOW 33% LESS SUGAR". When I compared it to the old jar at home, sugar and corn sweeteners had switched positions on the nutrition label. The calories remained constant which would indicate they upped the corn sweeteners as they lowered the sugar.

zippyt · 12-19-2004, 10:55 PM

I was going to bring up tempura, but Jinx beat me to it .
Verry easy to make , GREAT camping food , you make up a whole batch of chicken strips or nuggets for the kids , and the adults get to eat the more exotic stuff , 'scroons , onions , squach , shrimp , eggplant , sweet potatos , etc,,,,,, Just use your imagenation

My wife REFUSES to let me make fried twinkes

If you do make tempura for lots of folks , do it out side as it is MESSY !!!!
I use a catfish cooker and a BIG ASS wok we got from a Chinese restraunt that closed down.
Oh and one more tip whear long pants and leather shoes , hot oil poping onto your leg can rune your buzz !!!!

Dotster · 12-21-2004, 01:47 PM

Mars bars, snickers, basically any chocolate bar you like you can have battered and fried over here in UK

capnhowdy · 12-21-2004, 05:40 PM

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Originally Posted by zippyt

I was going to bring up tempura, but Jinx beat me to it .
Verry easy to make , GREAT camping food , you make up a whole batch of chicken strips or nuggets for the kids , and the adults get to eat the more exotic stuff , 'scroons , onions , squach , shrimp , eggplant , sweet potatos , etc,,,,,, Just use your imagenation

My wife REFUSES to let me make fried twinkes

If you do make tempura for lots of folks , do it out side as it is MESSY !!!!
I use a catfish cooker and a BIG ASS wok we got from a Chinese restraunt that closed down.
Oh and one more tip whear long pants and leather shoes , hot oil poping onto your leg can rune your buzz !!!!

Finally- a food that's as dangerous to cook as it is to eat.
I'm starved. Maybe I'll have a couple shots of Wesson to hold me over 'til chow. I gotta try this fried ice cream deal. Interesting. When you cut it open to eat some, I bet it turns into not -so-crispy fried coating breakfast cereal, with extra sugar deboot. Hope my grandkids dont get wind of this................

Sun_Sparkz · 03-29-2005, 11:19 PM

We have deep fried Mars Bars all the time here in OZ, its actually quite tasty, and if you only have a small piece.. you really dont notice the quantity of fat you would actually be taking in.

they sell them for 50 cents each here (the fun size mars, not the full size)

OnyxCougar · 03-30-2005, 10:33 AM

I was at the Longhorn Steakhouse the other day and they serve deep fried cheesecake. It is served in a big wine-snifter looking bowl with raspberry sauce at the bottom, the cheesecake looking bits mixed in with vanilla icecream, and whipped cream and cherries on the top.

OMG good.

wolf · 03-30-2005, 12:30 PM

Oh. My. Gods.

I will be going to a conference that is near a Longhorn next week.

Ooooooh.

Maybe I can go to Longhorn one night, and Chi-Chi's for the fried ice cream the next ...

xoxoxoBruce · 03-30-2005, 06:19 PM

Expense account?

wolf · 03-31-2005, 02:37 AM

No, although that reminds me I have to write down my mileage for the only type of reimbursement the nuthouse gives on stuff like that.

I have a very dear, traditionally-minded friend who sincerely believes the chick shouldn't pay for anything ...

Vegeta · 03-31-2005, 09:04 AM

Yeah, this is far from a "look at the freaky Brits" thing. In my area (around Louisville, KY USA), street festivals fry up Twinkies, Snickers, and other wonderful things I'd rather not think about actually eating.

Although, I was told a couple years ago that I had one while I was trashed...

(Off topic... This is my first post in a couple years. Someone forwarded me the catfish eating a basketball and I remembered how freakin' great the IOTD's are!)

EDIT: Aaaaaaand... I just realized it's a three-month old post. I wonder why it sorted at the top of my list?

*sigh* I'm a newbie all over again.

xoxoxoBruce · 04-02-2005, 02:08 AM

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*sigh* I'm a newbie all over again.

That's OK, we like newbies.

12-19-2004, 12:38 PM	#17
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Scotch eggs and corn fritters are food served in heaven. Oh yeah, baby. You folks probably think that's weird, but most of you don't have scrapple. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

12-19-2004, 01:07 PM	#18
404Error Lecturer Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: CT USA Posts: 826	"I do not like green eggs and scrapple, I do not like them, Sam I am." well, you get the point... __________________ "To disarm the people is the most effectual way to enslave them." ~George Mason~

12-19-2004, 01:13 PM	#19
jinx Come on, cat. Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: general vicinity of Philadelphia area Posts: 7,013	Scrapple is nasty. __________________ Crying won't help you, praying won't do you no good.

12-19-2004, 10:55 PM	#21
zippyt LONG LIVE KING ZIPPY! per Feetz Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Arkansas Posts: 7,661	I was going to bring up tempura, but Jinx beat me to it . Verry easy to make , GREAT camping food , you make up a whole batch of chicken strips or nuggets for the kids , and the adults get to eat the more exotic stuff , 'scroons , onions , squach , shrimp , eggplant , sweet potatos , etc,,,,,, Just use your imagenation My wife REFUSES to let me make fried twinkes If you do make tempura for lots of folks , do it out side as it is MESSY !!!! I use a catfish cooker and a BIG ASS wok we got from a Chinese restraunt that closed down. Oh and one more tip whear long pants and leather shoes , hot oil poping onto your leg can rune your buzz !!!! __________________ "Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get. " Brother Dave Gardner Last edited by zippyt; 12-19-2004 at 10:57 PM. Reason: because i want to !!!!

12-21-2004, 01:47 PM	#22
Dotster Complex Simpleton Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: UK Posts: 18	fried mars bar Mars bars, snickers, basically any chocolate bar you like you can have battered and fried over here in UK

03-29-2005, 11:19 PM	#24
Sun_Sparkz Has Body Temperature Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: I come from a land downunder Posts: 1,105	We have deep fried Mars Bars all the time here in OZ, its actually quite tasty, and if you only have a small piece.. you really dont notice the quantity of fat you would actually be taking in. they sell them for 50 cents each here (the fun size mars, not the full size) __________________ We'll never be as young as we are right now

03-30-2005, 10:33 AM	#25
OnyxCougar Junior Master Dwellar Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Kingdom of Atlantia Posts: 2,979	I was at the Longhorn Steakhouse the other day and they serve deep fried cheesecake. It is served in a big wine-snifter looking bowl with raspberry sauce at the bottom, the cheesecake looking bits mixed in with vanilla icecream, and whipped cream and cherries on the top. OMG good. __________________ Impotentes defendere libertatem non possunt. "Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth." ~Franklin D. Roosevelt

03-30-2005, 12:30 PM	#26
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Oh. My. Gods. I will be going to a conference that is near a Longhorn next week. Ooooooh. Maybe I can go to Longhorn one night, and Chi-Chi's for the fried ice cream the next ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

03-30-2005, 06:19 PM	#27
xoxoxoBruce The future is unwritten Join Date: Oct 2002 Posts: 71,105	Expense account? __________________ The descent of man ~ Nixon, Friedman, Reagan, Trump.

03-31-2005, 02:37 AM	#28
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	No, although that reminds me I have to write down my mileage for the only type of reimbursement the nuthouse gives on stuff like that. I have a very dear, traditionally-minded friend who sincerely believes the chick shouldn't pay for anything ... __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis Last edited by wolf; 03-31-2005 at 02:39 AM.

03-31-2005, 09:04 AM	#29
Vegeta As far beyond mutants as they beyond you Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: United States Posts: 52	Nasty but true Yeah, this is far from a "look at the freaky Brits" thing. In my area (around Louisville, KY USA), street festivals fry up Twinkies, Snickers, and other wonderful things I'd rather not think about actually eating. Although, I was told a couple years ago that I had one while I was trashed... (Off topic... This is my first post in a couple years. Someone forwarded me the catfish eating a basketball and I remembered how freakin' great the IOTD's are!) EDIT: Aaaaaaand... I just realized it's a three-month old post. I wonder why it sorted at the top of my list? sigh I'm a newbie all over again. Last edited by Vegeta; 03-31-2005 at 09:16 AM.

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