Deep-Fried Mars Bars

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Deep-Fried Mars Bars are battered and fried chocolate bars.

The chocolate bars used are Mars Bars -- caramel and nougat covered in chocolate. The batter used is the same batter as is used for fish and chips. The caramel and chocolate melts; the batter holds it together.

The fat used for the deep-frying is usually beef dripping (aka beef tallow.)

The bars are often chilled first, though not frozen, to help ensure that none of the melting chocolate and caramel leaks out into the fat, which is also used for other foods.

Deep-Fried Mars Bars are served at fast food outlets in Scotland. In 2004, about 1/4 of fish and chip shops in Scotland offered Deep-Fried Mars Bars. The cost (2004) is 70p ($1.38 US), 1 pound ($2.00 US) extra for with chips (aka French fries to North Americans.)

They are also made and sold at a few fast food places at Bondi Beach, Sydney, Australia, and a few other places in Australia.

Three-quarters of purchasers are children. [1]

Snickers Bars are also used by some in place of Mars Bars.

Cooking Tips for Deep-Fried Mars Bars

The beef tallow at fish and chip shops can get very hot, thus sealing the batter quickly. You may not be able to get your oil at home as hot. Consequently, some recommend freezing the bars first if you try this at home.

Nutrition for Deep-Fried Mars Bars

An average Deep-Fried Mars Bars has 420 calories.

History Notes for Deep-Fried Mars Bars

Deep-Fried Mars Bars possibly originated at the Haven Fish Bar (since 2000, the Carron Fish and Chip Bar) on Allardice Street in Stonehaven on the north east coast of Scotland. Reputedly, a customer named Brian MacDonald asked the Haven as an experiment to batter and fry him a Mars bar. They refused at first, but then gave in. [2]


They were first mentioned in print, it appears, in the Scottish "Daily Record" in 1995: "Mars supper, please". 24 August 1995.

Research on the food item was done in 2004 by two Glaswegian doctors, David Morrison and Mark Petticrew, who reported their findings in The Lancet, a British medial journal. They thought it was an urban myth.

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