Deep-fried Mars bars: A symbol of a nation's diet?

The deep-fried Mars bar has become a worldwide symbol of all that is wrong with the high-fat, high-sugar Scottish diet. But do people really eat them or is it a novelty item which has unfairly taken on a wider significance?

The Economist newspaper recently ran a feature on Glasgow's health record under the headline "No city for old men".

It was just the latest in a long line of news story to cite "an excessive love of deep-fried Mars bars" to represent all that is wrong with the eating habits of a city and - by extension - a nation.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19463119

Don`t even like the sound of that

they are very nice ,so is deep fried banana

no they not nice

I can handle the banana but not the candy bar thats way tooooo much

I had to stop doing the deep fried mars bars, the customers loved them, but the staff had a habit of overcooking them.. one fryer full of fat = around $60.00.. if the mars bars were overcooked, they stuffed up the fat.. it started costing some serious coin when it happened 2 or 3 times a night.. if it happened on a busy night, it cost a lot of business because a fryer would be out of action for at least 30 minutes while the fat got changed and reheated.. a pity because they were quite popular, just like mushy pea's...