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[Prospero]

New York Times article (registration required; check bugmenot.com if you aren't registered)

Smoking is one reason for Scotland's "sick man of Europe" tag, [Deborah Ski] said. But another was staring her in the face: deep fried pizza, covered in a coating of batter for added crunch, sometimes doused with salt and vinegar or soupy gravy.

"It soaks up the grease like a sponge," Ms. Ski said. "It's heart attack material there."

The smorgasbord of Scottish indulgences goes on: fried fish, fried sausage and fried hamburger, also encased in batter. There was fried haggis (sheep stomach's bag) and fried black pudding (boiled pig's blood in intestines). If vegetables are required, French fries, or chips, are on offer, the saltier the better. For dessert, the fried Mars bar can be ready in no time, although not at Jaconelli's, where the concoction is ridiculed as a media-hyped fad.

Now, I'll admit to having had a deep-fried Mars Bar, and it was pretty damn tasty. But deep-fried pizza in gravy? I'd eat a Hardees' Thickburger before I ate that.

 

[demon]

SCOTTISH ARE THE FATTEST PEOPLE ON EARTH

 

[xsarien]

Fried pizza? Are you shitting me?

 

[Tritroid]

So it looks like the Scots put batter on EVERYTHING. :lol Batter on pizza is an interesting idea though...seriously.

Oh and fried blood pudding? You're a nasty fuck if you eat that stuff.

 

[8bit]

Deep fried pizza is tremendous, but I think you can only eat it once in your lifetime.

^^^^Glasgow Salad^^^^

 

[Ignatz Mouse]

For years, I've been saying everything's better when it's battered and fried.

Two reactions:

1) Perhaps it's a genetic trait. I'm scottish.

2) Upon reading this, I've decided there are certainly limits.

 

[lochnesssnowman]

We'd batter an apple if there was good cause. The chippies here can be heart attack in a bag material. I haven't tried the pizza (or heard of it) or the mars bar and I imagine most Scots haven't either. I love king rib suppers and nowhere in England seems to do them or know what the are. Get one when I'm in Fort William over Christmas.

There's a place in Lanarkshire (south of Glasgow) that does a jumbo sausage, wrapped in Doner kebab meat and then deep fried and battered, which makes my heart weep just reading it.

 

[8bit]

Deep fried pizza is a Glasgow thing and has been around as long as pizza has over there, never heard of gravy on it though.

 

[Brannon]

...deep fried pizza...

And just as quickly I get to use my new favorite phrase "Hawt Hardore Food Porn!".

Where can one try this in Atlanta?

 

[Prospero]

We'd batter an apple if there was good cause.

Actually, that doesn't sound like a bad idea. If you could somehow take apple slices, dip them in caramel, and then fry them--mmmmmm.