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They’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
by leoedin 11mo ago
They’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