Deep Fried Mars Bars, are they still being sold?

hollydolly said:
even in the little corner sweet & tobacco shops they still have them... this is a photo I took... you can see the mars bar just behid the snickers bars
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Oooh look at all of that wonderful wonderful sugar.. 😁💕
 
Sunkist said:
Now that I think about it, I haven't seen any Mars bars in quite a few years.. I'd wondered if the company stopped selling them.
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Effem foods used to make them and they changed their name to Mars Foods incorp. They definitely haven’t stopped making them. They are one of their biggest sellers which is why the company changed their name to Mars.
 
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A triumphant: "up yours" to the food pyramid, the deep-fried Mars bar is Scotland’s, and arguably the world’s, ultimate culinary dare. It takes a perfectly innocent chocolate bar, coats it in standard batter, and plunges it into scorching fat until it transforms into a crispy, golden, gooey nugget of molten caramel and molten chocolate, often with a suspiciously, delightfully sinful, chocolate leakage.
Here is an amusing look at this, gut-busting, 600-to-1200-calorie, arterial disaster:

It’s often described as tasting like a hot, greasy, chocolate-filled donut, sickly, comforting, and dangerous. This is a, can you feel your arteries clogging as you eat it, snack. It’s a total of 1,200-calorie napalm-hot bomb of sugar and fat that acts as a one-way ticket to stroke city. It was allegedly invented in 1992 in Stonehaven, Scotland, as a joke, or a challenge, by a bored school kid.

While it’s the bad boy of Scottish cuisine, it is mostly consumed by tourists looking for a thrill. Even Mars corporate has famously tried to disown this abomination by distancing themselves from the health hazards. Best enjoyed once every ten years, potentially with a side of irony and a very,very, long walk. It is, essentially, the phallic profile of reckless, delicious abandon a masterpiece of: why not?
 
There was somewhere in my town that did them at one time - I dont like Mars bars much nor battered fried things - so I never tried one.

Deep fried icecream is a thing in chinese restaraunts mainly - I have had that occasionally.
 
January said:
There was somewhere in my town that did them at one time - I dont like Mars bars much nor battered fried things - so I never tried one.

Deep fried icecream is a thing in chinese restaraunts mainly - I have had that occasionally.
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I had deep-fried ice cream in a Mexican restaurant once, years ago. It was ok, I guess.
 
Sunkist said:
I had deep-fried ice cream in a Mexican restaurant once, years ago. It was ok, I guess.
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after all this talk... and knowing it was my Countrymen who invented it in a fish and chip shop many years ago...I'm beginning to be tempted to try one...

I think what I'll do at some point is cut an inch from a mars bar or equivalent, coat it in batter and then fry it.. and see what all the noise is about these last few years lol
 
hollydolly said:
after all this talk... and knowing it was my Countrymen who invented it in a fish and chip shop many years ago...I'm beginning to be tempted to try one...

I think what I'll do at some point is cut an inch from a mars bar or equivalent, coat it in batter and then fry it.. and see what all the noise is about these last few years lol
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I'm sure you know that some chip shops that do the deep fried Mars bars also do deep fried balls of batter, i.e. they get a small ball of batter, deep fry it, then coat it in more batter and deep fry that. Oh, and I've also seen adverts in a chip shop for deep fried pizza as well, i.e. you buy a slice of your favourite pizza at the chip shop, and they then deep fry it in batter for you! 😋 👍
 
BJintheUK said:
I'm sure you know that some chip shops that do the deep fried Mars bars also do deep fried balls of batter, i.e. they get a small ball of batter, deep fry it, then coat it in more batter and deep fry that. Oh, and I've also seen adverts in a chip shop for deep fried pizza as well, i.e. you buy a slice of your favourite pizza at the chip shop, and they then deep fry it in batter for you! 😋 👍
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Deep-fried pizza? 🤢🤮
 
BJintheUK said:
I'm sure you know that some chip shops that do the deep fried Mars bars also do deep fried balls of batter, i.e. they get a small ball of batter, deep fry it, then coat it in more batter and deep fry that. Oh, and I've also seen adverts in a chip shop for deep fried pizza as well, i.e. you buy a slice of your favourite pizza at the chip shop, and they then deep fry it in batter for you! 😋 👍
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Actually the Scottish chip shops have been serving deep fried Pizza for longer than the mars bars....

My favourite is deep fried Haggis.. and deep fried black pudding.. none of which I can get here in the south of England...
 
hollydolly said:
Actually the Scottish chip shops have been serving deep fried Pizza for longer than the mars bars....

My favourite is deep fried Haggis.. and deep fried black pudding.. none of which I can get here in the south of England...
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I guess it's those "to each their own" things.. 😁
 
Some years back, I visited Scotland with my Daughter and her husband. He and I shared a breaded and deep fried Mars bar. The nasty taste of European chocolate combined with the fishy flavor of the frying oil made it unpalatable and I didn't finish my half.
 
Llynn said:
Some years back, I visited Scotland with my Daughter and her husband. He and I shared a breaded and deep fried Mars bar. The horrid taste of European chocolate combined with the fishy flavor of the frying oil made it unpalatable and I didn't finish my half.
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you have to be joking...''horrible taste of European chocolate? ''..European chocolate is the best quality chocolate in the world ''....


what you ate in a Mars bar was cheap chocolate made by an American company !!
 
Wow, that reaction didnt take long.Nope, it was made in Europe. And I Included that remark because I become a bit weary of hearing frequent comments about American chocolate. USA is a huge country and we have many more candy manufacturers than Hershey and Mars. This country produces some fine chocolate that compares with any made anywhere in the world.
 
hollydolly said:
you have to be joking...''horrible taste of European chocolate? ''..European chocolate is the best quality chocolate in the world ''....


what you ate in a Mars bar was cheap chocolate made by an American company !!
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My favourite chocolate is LINDT 80%. Really annoyed because Coles and Woolworths have decided to put it up to $8.99
a block. It's the only treat I buy so I do limit myself.
 
oscash said:
My favourite chocolate is LINDT 80%. Really annoyed because Coles and Woolworths have decided to put it up to $8.99
a block. It's the only treat I buy so I do limit myself.
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A commercial from awhile back.. considering the way the brand name is pronounced, it was funny, telling people 'EVERYBODY LOVES TO EAT LINDT!" 🤣
 
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