DEEP FRIED MARS BARS - RECIPE

Buy my cookbook shipped WorldWide! http://goo.gl/E4uy9a Barry is asked to try making battered mars bars. Bonkers! Visit the blog at http://www.barrylewis.net Twitter   / mrbarrylewis   From wikipedia: A deep-fried Mars bar is an ordinary Mars bar normally fried in a type of batter commonly used for deep-frying fish, sausages, and other battered products. The chocolate bar is typically chilled before battering to prevent it from melting into the frying fat, though a cold Mars can fracture when heated. The dish originated at chip shops in Scotland as a novelty item, but was never mainstream. Since various mass media have reported on the practice since the mid 1990s, in part as a commentary on urban Scotland's notoriously unhealthy diet,[1] the popularity of the dish has spread. It is said to have been invented in the Haven Chip Bar in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen on Scotland's northeast coast, in 1995.[2][3] The first recorded mention of the food was in the Aberdeen Evening Express following a tip off phone call to their journalist Alastair Dalton that a chip shop in Stonehaven had been deep frying Mars Bars for local kids. The Evening Express article included a quote from Mars spokesperson who said this was the first time they had heard of this being done with their product. The following day the story was picked up and run in the Daily Record, August 24, 1995, in an article titled "Mars supper, please".[4] This triggered a chain reaction with Scottish broadsheets The Herald and Scotsman running the story the following day and the UK broadsheets the day after, each adding their own cultural slant. Day five and Keith Chegwin were doing taste tests on the Big Breakfast TV program and the story was going out globally on the BBC World Service. Chip shops around the country immediately responded by putting it on their menus. Essentially one phone call to a local paper with a 'quirky' story transformed - in a space of just a few days - a bit of innocent fun between a chip shop owner and some local children in a Highland fishing village into a global cultural and gastronomic phenomenon. #barrylewis