The one where we talk about deep fried Mars Bars

The Food Programme

BBC

Arts, Food

4.4 • 943 Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2019

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

Deep frying our food is a fast efficient way of cooking and it's not new.The ancient Greeks staged comedies involving frying pans. The Romans fried fish in copious amounts of oil. But these days deep frying often gets a bad press. British chip shops compete to create ever more outrageous deep fried dishes. Deep fried chocolate orange anyone? American state fairs hold extreme deep frying competitions involving butter and cookies. And in the west of Scotland the 'munchie box' is a fearsome thing to behold. Rachel McCormack explores different cultures' approach to deep frying asking why in Britain it's often regarded as unhealthy and lower class, whilst in Italy and Spain fritto misto has its place in a balanced healthy diet.

Producer: Maggie Ayre

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0:38.0	This year's new thing, Deep-fried bubblegum.
0:42.0	This is a marshmallow with bubblegum battery.
0:44.0	How to make deep fried beer.
0:46.0	Guess we're making today.
0:48.0	Deep fried Oreos.
0:50.0	This is going to be a deep fried twinkie.
0:53.6	Heart attack-inducing one this year.
0:55.6	Deep-fried butter on a stick.
0:58.0	Mmm.
1:00.4	Deep-fried Coca-Cola.
1:01.8	It's so good. This is a story about a kind of cooking that tends to get a bad press.
1:07.0	Mention deep-fried food and people start talking about horror stories from American state fairs.
1:12.0	mention it with this accent and everyone starts laughing and talking about deep fried Mars bars.
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