Comments | andrewducker: Interesting Links for 10-08-2012

andrewducker

Interesting Links for 10-08-2012

Aug 10, 2012 12:00

How does the Corby by-election change the UK's electoral mathematics?
(tags: elections coalition uk )
1300 extreme porn convictions in the last year. Rather more than the original estimate of _30_
(tags: viaCipherGoth porn uk law freespeech )
Spotify, Pandora, Streaming Music Make Up 25 Percent of Warner Digital's revenue
(tags: music spotify ( Read more... )

eu, prison, socialisation, music, business, security, work, scotland, freespeech, law, thefuture, omnomnomnom, creativity, pay, elections, coalition, memory, sex, spotify, children, links, birth, ohforfuckssake, technology, uk, productivity, mental_health, viaciphergoth, porn, therapy, brains, culture, relationships, psychology, food, alcohol

Leave a comment

Back to all threads

steer August 10 2012, 11:52:44 UTC

"Ms Watson revealed the battered snack was invented in the take-away - which used to be known as the Haven Fish Bar - back in 1995."

I am sure that I remember talking about them as a student in the early 90s. Our snack bar served mars bar toasties at the time -- but they didn't have a deep fat fryer.

andrewducker August 10 2012, 12:19:52 UTC

I can't remember when I first heard about them.

I have eaten one once though. It was amazing.

steer August 10 2012, 12:20:48 UTC

Yet to try it. A scottish friend arrived at York university in 1990 and apparently that was the first time she realised that pizzas were normally round and flat, not folded in half and battered.

andrewducker August 10 2012, 12:23:16 UTC

In my experience, chip-shop-pizzas in Scotland aren't battered, but they are deep-fried. I'm not sure that's an improvement.

I wouldn't say that Deep-Fried-Mars-Bar is something to be tried more than once. But frankly it's just a melted Mars Bar, some flour, egg, and oil. Many of the same people that scream at the thought would happily eat fish and chips, and have dessert afterwards.

a_pawson August 10 2012, 12:26:57 UTC

When I was at school Pizza Crunch meant it was fried in batter, Pizza Crispy was fried without batter. That might have been a west-coast thing though.

andrewducker August 10 2012, 12:28:00 UTC

It was when I worked in Easterhouse that I first encountered pasta dishes with chips. Which boggled me slightly at the time.

a_pawson August 10 2012, 12:29:03 UTC

Ah yes the old Glasgow salad (chips).

steer August 10 2012, 13:02:40 UTC

God... I feel I'm putting on weight just reading this.

steer August 10 2012, 12:59:02 UTC

Ah... you are probably right that the "battered" part is a detail I embellished mistakenly.

andrewducker August 10 2012, 13:01:07 UTC

From Mr Pawson's comment below, it seems that I had just not experience the full horror Scotland's culinary experiences have to offer.

helflaed August 10 2012, 21:36:10 UTC

Oooh- now they do sound nice.

Back to all threads

Leave a comment