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The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep
by arethuza 11mo ago
The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar
- ErroneousBosh 11mo agoYeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.
- Antibabelic 11mo agoYou can believe the references the Wikipedia article is based off, such as BBC Scotland: "They surveyed hundreds of fish and chip shops in Scotland to find out if "the delicacy" was available and if people were actually buying them. It found 66 shops which sold them, 22% of those who answered the survey. [...] Annie Anderson, from the Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research at the University of Dundee, used to send her medical students out into the city to see if they could find somewhere that sold deep-fried Mars bar. "It was not much of a challenge in Dundee," she says."
- gvurrdon 11mo agoI lived in Dundee during the 1990s and they were available. I'm told that they were popular at the Victor (https://maps.app.goo.gl/9g3je56Gt7spifo26 https://maps.app.goo.gl/9g3je56Gt7spifo26) though I don't see them on the menu today.
- sph 11mo ago> I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here The link above literally has a picture of a shop in Aberdeenshire which sells deep-fried Mars and claims to have invented the delicacy. Consider the possibility that your experience might not fully encompass the truth and you might not have seen the whole of Scotland. It's quite a large country.
- eesmith 11mo agoGoogle Street View of the same shop. https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Carron/@56.9627456,-2.2082035,3a,37.5y,321.6h,88.44t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1s4Nlhjd2lj8fLhJAgFSs1CQ!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fcb_client%3Dmaps_sv.tactile%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26pitch%3D1.5568086843308606%26panoid%3D4Nlhjd2lj8fLhJAgFSs1CQ%26yaw%3D321.60458429051675!7i16384!8i8192!4m6!3m5!1s0x48841c249bd3e6dd:0xddbcae17431ed2f4!8m2!3d56.9628331!4d-2.2082852!16s%2Fg%2F11h1d9nfm?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI1MTIwMi4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D https://www.google.com/maps/place/The+Carron/@56.9627456,-2....
- struanr 11mo agoI have seen quite a few chippys in Glasgow and Dundee, but it has always seemed to me like a thing for tourists
- vermon 11mo agoI lived in Edinburgh a while back and there are multiple chippies where you can get one.
- 0xEF 11mo ago> you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia Anything God, how ridiculously hyperbolic. But we're in the midst of a debate about the origins of a deep fried candy bar with strangers on HN and just supposed to believe that you live in Scotland and have seen every possible offering in every possible shop. Sounds stupid to decry something that people can verify to some extent then proceed to offer information that nobody can verify, doesn't it? This tired drum of Wikipedia being able to be edited by any wad off the street needs to be laid to rest, especially now in an age where misinformation is insanely prevalent in our general media and trusted sources who get paid to spread it.
- leoedin 11mo agoThey’ve been a Scottish thing for at least 15 years! Source: I ate one in Edinburgh 15 years ago. Scotland is the home of deep frying things that have no right to be deep fried. My English friends are alarmed when I tell them of the “half pizza and chips” we used to have for lunch. Half a deep fried pizza, that is.
- stoneman24 11mo agoMy dilemma as a student in Glasgow (a long time) at the start of term when I had some money, Fish supper or deep fried Pizza & chips. With the mandatory bottle of Irn Bru. Delicious but excessive consumption would certainly reduce your life expectancy.
- smcl 11mo agoDeep-fried pizza is originally an Italian thing ("pizza fritta") and would have entered Scottish cuisine through the Italian community (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Scots https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Scots). It's become its own thing now - a pizza crunch doesn't really resemble a pizza fritta - but it's originally Italian
- rkachowski 11mo agoI'm born and raised in Scotland, we're keeping it.
- smcl 11mo agoI'm actually from Scotland and grew up in an area that laid claim to their invention - near Stonehaven - around the time they popped up. They're basically a silly novelty equivalent to "deep fried butter" is in the USA but they definitely came from Scotland. I've never had one and know only a handful of people who did, I suspect they came about as a sort of pre-internet way to grab attention and go "viral" They're not exactly a delicacy or something that we should be proud of, mind ...
- ch_123 11mo agoI lived in Edinburgh for a while, and there were a number of establishments (typically fish and chip shops) which made them.
- coriny 11mo agoIt was possible to obtain them in Edinburgh 25 years ago, but it was rare. It was more of a meme than a popular choice, based around the Scottish love of deep frying absolutely everything.