True about StudentGrant et al. but Roger Melly is a Pisstake on british television hosts. People like Terry Wogan, Noel Edmonds, extremely personalityless hosts…
Whoa! Did I read that right? A deep fried Mars Bar?
Trion – it’s a trend in Scotland that started a few years back (early '90s?). IIRC it was a fish & chip shop in Falkirk that sparked it, but when I was at uni in Edinburgh all of the chippies would deep-fry any chocolate bar or piece of fruit for a surcharge. I never felt tempted to try it.
TheMadHun – the one thing I miss most of all about Edinburgh is the “saltandsauce” on the chips. Can you buy that stuff or is it a closely-guarded chip-shop-owner secret? (For the unitiated it’s a mixture vaguely resembling brown sauce and vinegar).
Nobody in the US even blinked at the deep-fried ice cream, London_Calling. It’s a standard dessert at franchise-type Mexican restaurants around here.
Yup, deep fried Mars Bar. so many calories Elvis would be proud.
Mars Bar. Coated in Batter. dropped in a vat of boiling oil.
Eaten quickly.
I saw the thread title & thought - Oops, why do I get the feeling that’s my fault!
Fame at last.
I don’t like hash browns & it has to be HP Sauce, not OK…
Tinned tomatoes are acceptable instead of grilled (esp if you grind black pepper in it and simmer…ummm). Tinned spaghetti is allowable, eggs should be fried for maximum cholesterol, but no one would shoot you if you scrambled them…but not poached or boiled for some reason… & you can get something called white pudding too, but I forget what that is. Most plates are too small for official fry-ups, but that’s ok as it is an art form to get them all cooked at the right time anyway! Much trickier than roast dinners. I believe traditional bubble & squeak has to include cabbage & potatoes.
Primaflora - they taste gorgeous (ignoring the recipe of course…) the main brand in England used to be called Brain’s Faggots which was even worse as a recipe idea (fortunately totally unrelated!).
Why is it always miles from dinner time when anyone talks about food?
I’ve heard of the mars bar thing, but it sounds revolting - has anyone tried one?
Fi.
I’ve tried one, and It tasted nice, but I was drunk, so I cant be sure.
Of course, another british delecacy is Cheezypeas.
If you like cheese, and you like peas, then you’ll love cheezypeas!!!
mmmm…cheezypeas…
Nah, I prefer squeezycheezypeas…
Scorchio!
squeezycheezypeas, in original and now Strawberry flavour!!
you aint seen me, right?
Me, with my reputation, in the girls’ dorm?
The mars bars are brilliant, but the chip shop in england where i found them would also do the same to snickers and twix bars. Also in scotland they had deep fried pizza at some chip shops
Deep fried Mars bar, I’m open minded but if someone were to say “put these babies heads in breadcrumbs and fry them” I’d say
Oi! No! take your babies heads and leave!!
I’ll admit to being somewhat impressed by the idea of a deep fried candy bar. Whoever came up with that one was surely an innovator. I’d probably try it as I’ll try anything once. But I’d want some defibulators nearby, just in case.
OK, so I’m an ignorant 'merkin … but I have to ask. If you deep-fry a Mars bar, why doesn’t it cease to be a Mars bar and become a puddle of liquid chocolate mixed with oil?
cuz the oil’s nice and hot, see, and the coating forms this barrier against the oil getting in there and screwin everything up. this is why expertly fried food can seem relatively greaseless hong kong style chinese restaurants, and vietnamese restaurants that pride themselves on their imperial rolls understand this concept. burp.
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Kat: black pudding is a type of sausage made from pig’s blood.
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And people eat this? Eww. Why? No, don’t answer that.
Yes, I did. Well, it’s not the worst thing I’ve ever found out on this board.
My guess, Fretful, is that the batter-dipped Mars bar is frozen before putting it in the oil. I used to have a recipe for deep-fried chocolate truffles (I am SO not making this up) and that’s how you made them. They were, in the opinion of everyone who tried them, wonderful.
This thread reminds me of a conversation I had with OpalCat a week ago. I was bored at work and checking out the SOAR recipe archives, when I came across their section for British food. It’s really, really funny to send the recipe for Black Pudding to a vegetarian without telling her what it is. As nasty as I thought it sounded (any food which has an ingredient list that reads like a paragraph from Carrie is NOT something I want to ingest), I’m sure she thought it was much worse.
SOAR, amazingly, also has one Eskimo recipe. It involved cutting the flippers off of something (I can only assume some kind of seal) and soaking them in blubber for a couple of weeks. I still can’t figure out if that was a joke.
Deep-fried snickers bars have been making the rounds at the various county fairs in the States for a couple of years now. I haven’t tried one, but people say they are the epitome of junk food decadence!!
The German variant of this type of sausage, is more straight-forwardly called “blutwurst”, or “blood sausage”.
If you find the “blood sausage” disgusting, what about kidneys? I’ve never cared to get past the smell to try steak and kidney pie, and as for the classically British idea of kidneys for breakfast …
Recipes for kidney supposedly begin “place in a pan of water and boil the piss out of them” … I think there was some American general commenting on the Battle of Britain - “Any people who can eat boiled piss-sacks for breakfast will never be conquered”. Probably paraphrased if I have it right at all. Anybody know the correct attribution?
Supposedly the Scottish “deep fried pizza” thing started when frozen pizzas were imported into the country, and lacking any context concerning what to do with them, people bunged them into the deep fat fryer, already established as an important tool in Scottish cookery. It IS true that pizza was introduced into the cultural mainstream in many places much more recently than people realize (most of Middle America was introduced to it post-WW II, though there were pizzarias in NYC in the early part of the 20th century).
BTW, I have an entertaining reference for “weird and disgusting foods” in general. I will corroborate the general opinion of lutefisk and retsina, but some of the
other things on here are quite tasty:
I am reminded of an Engliah mystery novel. I cannot remember the title, author or protagonists. The side kick, a policeman, always thinks that he is ill and takes medicine. Anyway, the detective and policeman visit a woman who invites them to “have a fryup!”
AS they leave the policeman says to the detective, “Sir, did you see the lard in the pan? Tiny feet!”