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Posted: 14-01-2005 20:24 Post subject:

Well in America, the home of the deep fried EVERYTHING, things like that are pretty common. Mostly around here we get deep fried twinkies and oreos. They are dipped in funnel cake batter and fried for about a minute then sprinkled with powdered suger.

And lemme tell you , df twinkies are delish! Very Happy

Posted: 15-01-2005 00:07 Post subject:

Posted: 15-01-2005 22:44 Post subject:

Definately no an urban legend.

I have worked in a few chip shops and often worked late fridays/saturdays.
i remember 3 drunk men coming in and asking if we sold battered mars bars, we told them no but if they popped next door and bought a mars we would cook it provided they ate it in front of us.
they got one, i fried it, one of them ate it, he lumbered outside and brought it back up...

Posted: 16-01-2005 10:43 Post subject:

Posted: 16-07-2010 09:12 Post subject:

Deep-fried Eccles cake rivals deep-fried Mars bar
The deep-fried Mars bar has a new rival - the deep-fried Eccles cake.
Published: 7:30AM BST 16 Jul 2010

The tasty treat has been created in an Eccles chippy just yards away from the location of the original Eccles cake shop in Greater Manchester.

Ms Whittaker, owner of Whittakers Fish and Grill bar, in Church Street, made them to promote the town centre - and they proved so popular they could be added to the menu.

She said: "All the shops were asked to do something to promote Eccles town centre as a place to shop and I decided to do something on the theme of its most famous export.

"Instead of the ordinary batter, which the Mars bar is fried in, I created a lighter sweet pancake batter and dipped the cake in it before deep frying it.

"We gave out the cakes for free to the public and they were overwhelmingly enthusiastic.

"I haven't decided whether to put them on the menu permanently, but as Eccles is having its annual festival this weekend, they might make another guest appearance.

"The only difference is that this time people will have to pay for it." There is a blue plaque near her shop marking the location of the original Eccles cake shop, opened by James Birch in 1796.

However the cakes had been around for years before that. It is said the cakes were so popular during Cromwell's rule in the 1650s that they were considered sinful by the Puritans and banned.

Bakers in Eccles make their own version of the delicacy, but the main producers of Eccles cakes are Edmonds in Ardwick, with their Real Lancashire Eccles Cakes.

The cakes are baked from puff pastry wrapped around dried fruit, with its currants steeped in sugar.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/7893526/Deep-fried-Eccles-cake-rivals-deep-fried-Mars-bar.html

Posted: 16-07-2010 13:20 Post subject:

Oh please God, never let a Britisher cook food again... headbutt

Posted: 16-07-2010 15:01 Post subject:

Posted: 16-07-2010 15:11 Post subject:

I like how the puritans wanted some cookies banned because people enjoyed them too much.

Posted: 16-07-2010 15:52 Post subject:

I had a deep fried mars bar from a chippie in north london a few years back,i like deep fried things and i love mars bars, but not to fussed about them both together.

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Posted: 19-07-2010 16:27 Post subject:

When i was a young un,i read an article(almost certainly in the daily record) that told the story of the scottish chippie that first came up with the deep fried mars bar,maybe an older reader of the greetin faced scottish rag can come up with more details?

Posted: 19-07-2010 17:07 Post subject:

From the same Wiki article as above: