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In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by leoedin »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #12
arethuza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Yeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.

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.

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by volkadav »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #11
bitdivision wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

I've never seen nor heard of them anywhere in Scotland, but I have seen them in the Midlands.

I saw them on the menu at a chippy food cart at glasgow comicon this summer, so they exist here. I did not order one, but they were for sale. :)

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by rkachowski »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #12
arethuza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Yeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.

I'm born and raised in Scotland, we're keeping it.

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by smcl »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #12
arethuza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Yeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.

I'm actually from Scotland and grew up in an area that laid claim to their invention - near Stonehaven - around the time they popped up.

They're basically a silly novelty equivalent to "deep fried butter" is in the USA but they definitely came from Scotland. I've never had one and know only a handful of people who did, I suspect they came about as a sort of pre-internet way to grab attention and go "viral"

They're not exactly a delicacy or something that we should be proud of, mind ...

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by stoneman24 »

leoedin wrote: post #21
ErroneousBosh wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.

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.

My 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.

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by WWWWH »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #6
WWWWH wrote: post #4

You know I wondered who those guys throwing spears at the busses were. Thought they’d just come doon the watter.

Just Wishaw things. I used to work with a guy whose parents were Pakistani but who had been born in Scotland, although he had quite a strong accent from living with his grandparents for several years. People used to ask him "So where are you really from?" quite often. "I'm from Wishie", he'd say. "No but where are you really from?" "Well, dinna tell onyone," he'd say, dialling up the Lanarkshire accent, "but I'm real…

Perfect. Right up there with, "but are you a Protestant Muslim or a Catholic Muslim?"

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by ch_123 »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #12
arethuza wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The origins of the Deep Fried Mars Bar are disputed but all of the people doing the disputing appear to be here in Scotland? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

Yeah, you can't believe anything that's on Wikipedia. I actually live in Scotland. I have never seen anywhere that sells deep-fried Mars bars here, but I have seen them in England.

I lived in Edinburgh for a while, and there were a number of establishments (typically fish and chip shops) which made them.

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by baerrie »

metalman wrote: post #20

I know a few people born in, or on the edge of the "neolithic", inuit from far up north, and idiginous peoples a bit further south, and more than a few scotts, including a clan of blacksmiths, but allas this space isn't quite suited to the raising of ghosts but as a fact, there is no invention or practice that is not bieng conducted nativly, astounding continuity, though essentialy invisible, as there are no signs, l…

This is the best way for ancient culture to survive.

Re: In Northern Scotland, the Neolithic Age Never Ended

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Post by IAmBroom »

ErroneousBosh wrote: post #11
bitdivision wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They were supposedly invented in Scotland, and I've not seen them sold in an English fish and chip shop. Go to Scotland however and they're not uncommon. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep-fried_Mars_bar

I've never seen nor heard of them anywhere in Scotland, but I have seen them in the Midlands.

I haven't been to Scotland in over thirty years, so I might as well toss my opinion in as "fact", as well.
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