{"id":157,"date":"2004-12-17T08:50:28","date_gmt":"2004-12-17T12:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=157"},"modified":"2004-12-17T20:05:54","modified_gmt":"2004-12-18T00:05:54","slug":"fried-mars-bars-and-more-in-the-cooker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/fried-mars-bars-and-more-in-the-cooker\/","title":{"rendered":"Fried Mars Bars and more in the cooker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I may have seen fried Mars bars, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.milkywaybar.com\/\">sold as Milky Way in the US,<\/a>  in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.durham.net\/~neilmac\/edinburg.htm\">Edinburgh<\/a>, but one thing is for sure there was a lot of frying going on in those pubs and takeouts. For some reason, it took a mention on Jay Leno&#8217;s show to send health officials out looking for candy friers. The health scientists verified that 1 in 5 fish and chips shops fry Mars bars. Batter &#8217;em up. Drop &#8217;em in. Sell &#8217;em for 70 p. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2-1406270,00.html\">Reported somewhat sensationally by the nearly unbelieving Times.<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/uk_news\/scotland\/4103415.stm\">Also covered by the BBC.<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/mefron\/blog\/\"> Miles<\/a>, we missed this treat whilst in Scotland. <a href=\"http:\/\/yumfood.net\/recipes\/deepfriedmars.html\">But you can try this at home.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I may have seen fried Mars bars, sold as Milky Way in the US, in Edinburgh, but one thing is for sure there was a lot of frying going on in those pubs and takeouts. For some reason, it took a mention on Jay Leno&#8217;s show to send health officials out looking for candy friers. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,7,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni-and-other-friends","category-amusements","category-general","post-preview"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/pjones\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}