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Philippe in Edinburgh Monday, April 5, 2004 • read strip Viewing 53 comments:

Cute.

"Mars Bars in Batter". This is mindboggling, yet fantastic. It also sounds...deadly, much in the same way as Deep Fried Cheesecake on a Stick.

truly you have never known the horrors of the "scotch egg":
[IMGS OFF]

That looks delish!

At first glance I thought that was an octopus dipped in a blender.

SCOTCH EGG IS THE WONDER FOOD. ALL HAIL THE SCOTCH EGG!

HERESY!
Nobody speaks that way about Cheesecake and avoids the impending divine wrath!

They used to sell them in my school (I'm from Greater London but we still got them for some reason), and while I was so, SO intrigued, I never tried one...

...because I was afraid I might like it.

The very same reason why I haven't tried one.

That, and I'm afraid I might be violently ill.

Woah, woah, woah. Deep fried Mars Bars are incredibly delicious. The only thing that ruins the experience is knowing that you're shortening your life by several weeks just by touching the thing.

It is actually made of awesome.
The batter tastes like doughnuts, and the chocolate goes all melty and nice.

those Scots are some real health nuts...

I remember someone, I forget who, said that most Scottish food was invented on a dare. Some highlights I came across in Edinburgh include Mars Bars in batter, pizza in batter, muffins topped with chocolate and Mars Bars and a sandwich consisting of a Terry's Chocolate Cream between two slices of buttered bread. I get the sense they invented Scotch, then got wasted and invented most of their cuisine.

So, the entirety of Scottish cuisine includes haggis and all sorts of food covered in batter?

They got to keep warm somehow! Scotland is terrifyingly far north.

That would be Mike Myers as Charlie MacKenzie, in "So I Married An Axe Murderer".

Scotland played Italy in the Euro qualifiers recently (I'm talking football here), and the Scottish fans' chant went a little something like this:

Deep fry your pizzas!
We're gonnae deep fry your pizzas!
Deep fry your piiizzzzaaas!
We're gonnae deep fry your piiizzzz-as!

Which says it all really...

That's awesome. I actually live in Edinburgh. I bought a slice of deep fried pizza on accident on one of my first ever nights out here. Deep fried pizza is an extremely, inconceivably wrong thing. I threw it away.

My brother ate a deep fried Mars bar just the other day, though!

By accident is the only way to buy a deep fried pizza

Guys, look! I just ate half of this deep fried pizza... completely on accident!

A 4 for the Scotch Whiskey Heritage center. That place is a trip.

This brings to my mind a thought: people would buy small achewood character dolls.

OH GOD I HOPE SO

I would totally buy an achewood doll! They should put them in happy meals or something.

Yeah, but then you'd have to buy the food .

Come on Chris, you know that tomorow you wind up back at the Scotch Whisky Heritage Centre.

I swear to god , I have a stuffed otter like that.

Battered mars bars are wonderful!!!
You must try them, but beware not to eat more than one or you WILL vomit!

I had half a deep-fried Snickers at the carnival, and I did vomit. That might have something more to do with the whirlwind trip on the Spider shortly afterwards. It is a mystery.

I was once where Philippe is. I was dressed in bandages, attacking Vanessa Feltz because I thought it would be funny.

I have a feeling that the bar Phillipe is sitting on will not be sat on for much longer.

Phillipe has encouraged me to purchase an equally-adorable stuffed otter for myself.

I am 21 years, and I have a stuffed otter on my bed. This drives the ladies wild.

even better? i have a beanie baby...

[IMGS OFF]

Royal milf? I lived in Scotland and totally missed that... dang!

That's the Royal Mile, dude.
Although I imagine the royal milf might visit there at some point.

I'm Scottish and even I don't like the food over there

Your avatar wisely agrees.

a 4 simply because someone was telling me how fried chocolate bars are hot in scotland...and now i have ottery proof. i also find it hilarious that i live in the DEEP south, and had never heard of this particular fried atrocity.

HEY! I freakin'... LIVE here.

5.

It is worth noting that Mars Bars in the UK are not the old Mars Bars we used to get in the States. I believe the latter had almonds in them, among other differences (and I believe they stopped making them ages ago).

It's been a long time since I had one, but I believe Mars Bars in the UK are basically what we call Milky Ways in the US.

Why do we name so much candy after celestial objects?

Whoa whoa whoa! You call Mars bars Milky Ways?? But then what do you call Milky Ways ? Because we have them, but they are like, very very light, fluffy vanilla flavoured... I dunno... whipped... nougat-like stuff... covered in milk chocolate.

That's right, it's all flooding back now. Milky Ways in the UK are Three Musketeers over here. We need a flow chart.

What the FUCK. Why can't you just call things by their right names.

HEY we saved your ASS in WWII and stopped the Norman Invasion of Plymouth Rock by killing the Pope of England back in 1812 for our right to name our treats whatever the HELL we want.

We celebrate this right every day ("Guy Fawkes Day") and that is why we are proud and fat as a nation.

I'm pretty sure these candy bars are all American products, in which case it is YOU who calls them by the wrong names. SO THERE

Um, I think you'll find that we invented language.

You guys keep this up and soticoto might show up.

Don't let that happen.

Oh fuck you're right. I feel like I've started some kind of demonic summoning spell, and now I can't undo it.

We were fools, and now we'll pay the price!

[soticoto]It's called Marathon, not Snickers! All Yanks are cvnts! The cake is a lie![/soticoto]

Well, the answer is that the name of the family is "Mars". So naming their tasty snacks after spacey things just seems natural. What I never knew is that they came from Minnesota, like me.

Anyone else first read that sign as "Royal Milf"?

Someone did indeed

I...I want to go to the Scotch Heritage center.

It is like...the alcoholic's mecca!