Mars Bars - ...deep fried delight?

Palomar · 2004-12-17 08:22:32

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*Couldn't pass this up because of the same-name reference. :laugh:

--Cindy

Grypd · 2004-12-17 17:04:01

THEY ARE GREAT!

But on the serious side the Health inspectors have decided to take them away as they are a serious concentration of calories. But i doubt they will have much luck.

John Creighton · 2004-12-17 17:15:20

Calories are the food energy in food you need. If you are working late in a factor or something. Say a doable shift and are hungry. There is no better way to get quick lasting energy then from a Mars bar. There is no good substitute either. Snickers the closest to a mars bar I can think of don’t taste nearly as good. I find it ridiculous the notion people have about large portions of food. There are skinny people who need the food and if they don’t have much money then a barging is needed. If they ever do anything stupid like that or create a fat tax I hope skinny people get an exemption. BTW did you know that chocolate bars were originally created as rations for military troops. The army new how beneficial a quick does of calories could be if you are burning the candle on both ends. In short. Don’t take away my right to eat mars bars!!!!!!!!! Willpower less health NAZZI’s where ever you are.

Grypd · 2004-12-17 17:19:32

Hah, but in Scotland we tend to get a fish and chip shop to put batter on them and a half a minute in a deep fat fryer and then eat. There certainly is not anything sweeter especially glugging down Irn Bru at the same time.

Certainly reminds me of the last old firm game.

Palomar · 2004-12-17 18:32:40

THEY ARE GREAT!
But on the serious side the Health inspectors have decided to take them away as they are a serious concentration of calories. But i doubt they will have much luck.

*Hi Grypd, I was hoping you'd chime in. I'm going to try one for myself. Once in a while I make fish and chips with "Golden Dipt" batter mix, and I could certainly do the Mars candybar with it as well! Will use olive oil, though. I'm curious as to what it tastes like (and hopefully I -- or we -- won't get hooked on them!). :laugh:

--Cindy

P.S.: Just now read your 2nd response:

a half a minute in a deep fat fryer

Thanks for that timing tip!

Shaun Barrett · 2004-12-17 19:25:20

What with haggis, and now deep-fried pizza (?! ) and deep-fried Mars bars .. it just goes to show the Scots will eat almost anything!

GraemeSkinner · 2004-12-17 22:04:59

THEY ARE GREAT!
But on the serious side the Health inspectors have decided to take them away as they are a serious concentration of calories. But i doubt they will have much luck.
*Hi Grypd, I was hoping you'd chime in. I'm going to try one for myself.

Don't! They're evil, Mars Bars should be untainted and chilled just enough to make the hard to bite into.

Graeme

Mad Grad Student · 2004-12-17 23:48:00

Skinny dudes/dudettes of the world unite!

But seriously, when people become obese you'll have a very difficult time blaming it on anything but the person and their eating habbits. Some people can just naturally do without fatty, empty-calorie-rich foods (not that it isn't marvelous to grab a Snickers every once and a while), and well, life just isn't fair. But it's not the vendor's fault if people habitually eat unhealthy foods when it honestly should be obvious to them that what they're eating isn't the most nutritious stuff. They should be allowed to sell it to the more responsilbe customers (and everyone else) no matter what.

That said, while I probably won't ever have a problem being obese I do have plenty of other vices to contend with. I absolutely loathe all vegetables (corn is somewhat tolerable) and can't stand salads. I probably eat one half or one third (at best) of the amount of fruit I should be eating every day and probably am eating way too many junk simple carbohydrates. The only nutrition problem you ever hear about now is obesity, so it's strange to have my future health perhaps sidelined by something so simple as just not eating enough fruits n' veggies. Oh well. I suppose I have plenty of time to develop better eating habbits over the next couple of years before I really should start worrying.

Still, I'd love to try one of those deep-fried Mars Bars. Mmmmm, trans-fatty acids. :laugh:

GraemeSkinner · 2004-12-17 23:53:14

Still, I'd love to try one of those deep-fried Mars Bars. Mmmmm, trans-fatty acids. :laugh:

Worse in my view than the amount of fat involved in deep-fried Mars Bars is the fact that many will cover them in salt before eating them.

Graeme

John Creighton · 2004-12-17 23:56:26

Worse in my view than the amount of fat involved in deep-fried Mars Bars is the fact that many will cover them in salt before eating them.
Graeme

I’m convinced salt is not a problem if you drink enough water. Your kidneys should take care of it. But funny none the less . :laugh:

Anyway I am starting to want to try a deep fried mars bar. It will probably be less fatty then KFC. If I eat more then two or three peaces of KFC I feel bad all evening. Man that stuff is heavy.

GraemeSkinner · 2004-12-18 00:10:59

I think there is a difference between the salt you put on food just before you eat it (not something I do to be honest) and the food that is already part of processed foods and ready meals. They say everything is okay in moderation, but someone adding salt to a microwave meal is asking for trouble if its a regular event.

I've never tried KFC being a veggie, so could not compare them to deep fried mars bar which I tried once - a never to be repeated experience!

Graeme

Palomar · 2004-12-18 07:15:19

*Actually the notion that -all- obese people are always stuffing in food and eating all the time is a misconception. I was rather chubby as a kid (after age 8) until around age 16. In my mid-20s I began gaining weight again, but managed to take it off.

One look at a photograph of my maternal aunts and great-aunts lined up tells the tale: A lot of my weight battles have been due to genetics. My body type is like theirs.

Currently my weight is down to where it should be and I've kept it off for a long time. This involves consistent calculated choices of how much I can eat in the day and of what. It's not obsessive by any means; I've pretty much learned "what can and what can't."

In order for me to keep my weight stable, I can't consume much past 1300 calories in a day. Considering even 1 glass of skim milk has 90 calories...well, 1300 calories doesn't go that far.

The only time in my life I was able to pretty much eat what I wanted without worry was at age 21, when I was working a fast-food job while going to college. I did "lobby" -- which was mopping the floors, running around the restaurant collecting trays to be wiped down, hauling heavy bags of fries out of the freezer and carrying them to the front of the store, and hauling very heavy trash bags out to the dumpster many yards behind the store (and many trips throughout the day). It was physically demanding work and my metabolism speeded up apparently.

But otherwise my metabolism is slower than a 7 year's itch. And I do exercise regularly.

So...if you're naturally thin, **be grateful**. Food is a pleasure, and it stinks to have to always "be mindful"! Especially when it's your only vice or potential vice. :-\

--Cindy

Grypd · 2004-12-18 15:12:13

There is a serious side to the arquements about the deep fried Mars bar. In Scotland we do have a problem of Heart disease caused by inapropiate foods and smoking. Obesity though on the increase is still nothing like as bad as what the USA has to suffer. And frankly the modern way of working increases this risk.

So what are we doing about it and what can be done, The first is a ban on smoking in all public places, resturants, pubs, buses in the street? A serious increase in sports and activities available to the children and what seems to be the most confrontational a public health warning to be put on fast food. This is your mcdonalds, kfc etc.

It is from this that the deep fried mars bar gets its bad rep but then again if it is treated like what it is a luxury food it is not as if people eat it all the time only very occasionly.

And Shaun you are only jealous of Scots as it rains here all the time

Shaun Barrett · 2004-12-18 17:51:57

Grypd:-

And Shaun you are only jealous of Scots as it rains here all the time

As it happens, Grypd, I live in a part of Australia where we get lots of rain - much more than you get, I think! :;):

I spent a week driving around Scotland with my wife in the late seventies. It was September, supposedly autumn, but I remember how cold the winds were! It didn't rain much, though.

Obviously, Australia is quite different and has its own kinds of diverse attractions, but I think Scotland is a uniquely beautiful place with an atmosphere all of its own.
I'm not jealous of your rain, Grypd, but there are plenty of other things in Scotland to be jealous about (deep-fried Mars bars aside, of course! ).
:up:

Cobra Commander · 2004-12-18 19:38:16

Deep fried... Mars Bars? Sounds positively dreadful. <insert "blech" emoticon>

I never cease to be amazed at what my fellow humans will seek out and ingest.

So what are we doing about it and what can be done, The first is a ban on smoking in all public places, resturants, pubs, buses in the street?

Too much tax revenue at stake, at least here in the states. Raising taxes on cigarettes is one of the knee-jerk responses to budget shortfalls at the state and local level, banning smoking undercuts too much revenue (as New York recently discovered). It's similar to the laws surrounding drunk driving, they're justified on public safety grounds but in reality they generate too much income for them to ever be allowed to succeed in their stated goal.

Better to just warn people and let them do as they will, whether it be sucking on a cancer stick or scarfing down a few deep fried Mars Bars.

But then our present healthcare structure encourages everyone to want to meddle in the affairs of others, bah, better cut this off before a rant ensues.

What makes someone stick a Mars Bar in a deep-fryer? :hm:

GraemeSkinner · 2004-12-19 04:17:25

There is a serious side to the arquements about the deep fried Mars bar. In Scotland we do have a problem of Heart disease caused by inapropiate foods and smoking. Obesity though on the increase is still nothing like as bad as what the USA has to suffer. And frankly the modern way of working increases this risk.

Its funny though, Scotland has a high rate of heart disease & obesity, yet its got some excellent hills to walk in that would get rid of all the problems. Having toured Scotland a couple of times, I know there are built up areas, but none of them are that far from the countryside where they can have free excercise, no need to join a gym or spend money on fancy diets.

If I had my way, and it would not be pupular, I'd ban fast food restaurants before I'd banned smoking (but I'd have defined smoking areas in public places).

Graeme

Grypd · 2004-12-19 17:00:25

Deep fried... Mars Bars? Sounds positively dreadful. <insert "blech" emoticon>
I never cease to be amazed at what my fellow humans will seek out and ingest.
So what are we doing about it and what can be done, The first is a ban on smoking in all public places, resturants, pubs, buses in the street?
Too much tax revenue at stake, at least here in the states. Raising taxes on cigarettes is one of the knee-jerk responses to budget shortfalls at the state and local level, banning smoking undercuts too much revenue (as New York recently discovered). It's similar to the laws surrounding drunk driving, they're justified on public safety grounds but in reality they generate too much income for them to ever be allowed to succeed in their stated goal.
Better to just warn people and let them do as they will, whether it be sucking on a cancer stick or scarfing down a few deep fried Mars Bars.
But then our present healthcare structure encourages everyone to want to meddle in the affairs of others, bah, better cut this off before a rant ensues.
What makes someone stick a Mars Bar in a deep-fryer? :hm:

I think it does come down to money. In Scotland with a National Health Service all medical treatment for people suffering from the effects of smoking or poor diet control and people who are incapacitated as a result the state will pay for.

Medical bills are going up and up and with treatment costs it seems that expenditure versus tax raised is close to even about now. And there is the consideration that people who are healthier are more likely to be gainfully employed and so tax earners.

And the story is that the deep fried mars bar came about due to a bet between a fish bar owner and a customer that he could not fry everything and if he did the customer would not eat it.

Josh Cryer · 2004-12-20 09:39:08

Worse in my view than the amount of fat involved in deep-fried Mars Bars is the fact that many will cover them in salt before eating them.

I am a salt fiend! I would love to try that out, wow, this thread has got my mouth watering...

Palomar · 2005-02-17 15:51:22

*They don't sell Mars Bars in this area anymore. Shortly after starting this thread, it occurred to me I haven't seen them for sale around here for a while. Have kept an eye out...nope. Guess as close as I'll get is the Snickers Almond bar.

Was going to post about that sooner, but am glad I waited because (related) I just now received the following order from FedEx:

http://www.groovycandies.com/GCassortOr … CA4]Groovy Candies '60s sampler

and

I first saw these a couple of years ago on TV. They must be specially ordered. Will share with family and friends:

http://www.groovycandies.com/NewCandyDe … 942]Skybar

And as of tonight, calories and carbohydrates don't exist for the next 48 hours. <grin>

Anyway, I am going to try a deep-fried Snickers Almond bar (substitute for Mars bar). Might sprinkle some salt on it too.

--Cindy

Commodore · 2005-02-17 17:34:36

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