Battered Mars Bar

i didnt say the battering and deep frying doesnt go on mate - noooo.... as long as ive been alive a fish supper or a haggis supper was a good friday night feed.

i said the mars bar was a tourist invention....and it was - so there. :P I suspect it was done for a bit of craic and it caught on in the Scottish chippies as everything else does there - "we are famous for something - lets make it look as though we've been doin it for years and claim it as a great scottish invention!" no matter how ridiculous! do you REALLY think someone would choose to eat a deep fried mars bar in ANY part of the world? Well....maybe here hehe! Nah it was a long lifed fad unfortunately.

Like i said - the health board asked that the chippies stop serving things like fried pizza etc, to try to bring down the rate of heart disease since we have one of the highest rates in the world. A lot of the chippies around glasgow (where im actually from!) have stopped as per the health boards efforts, but like i said earlier - deep frying and battering is the norm, not something you need to ask for specifically like you do here.

how i yearn for a roll on square sausage. if it wasnt for foot and mouth id have a freezer full of the stuff let me tell yae. what a cruel thing to mention to an ex-pat who doesnt get home as often as he should! you lot with your crap bread, and your regular sausages, and your daft shaped rolls, and your "chippers" - yaes dont know youre alive!

awwwww well-fired rolls ... well-fired rolls.

how i miss them.

every now and then i go home and visit the family and my aunt always has a block of square sausage (lorne sausage is the actual name for anyone looking to buy them from Asda or Sainsbury up in N.I), and half a dozen rolls ready for me waking up in the morning : Its one of the best things about going home.

Another thing i miss from home which im AMAZED you dont have here is a Greggs bakers - or Lightbodies, or... ya know? A high street baker who sells sausage rolls, bridies, cakes, and all things baked. The closest thing ive seen to a high street baker here is a spar with a servery counter!

As for Glaswegians - aye, i sympathise with you there. I had an american 'friend' who visited glasgow once and she immediately commented on the common approach of the everyday eejits - show's yur berd, geez a swatch, etc etc (ring any bells?)