Portion sizes (rant)

[tattiefritter]

I used to think it was just the Scots that has a penchant for deep frying everything! Growing up in Scotland it was normal to me to get lots of deep fried foods at the chippy (only occasionally though), when I moved to England I realised that perhaps it wasn't quite normal at all. My user name is actually a battered deep fried thing I used to eat as a teenager but can't stomach now (you can take the girl out of Scotland but you can't take Scotland out of the girl!)

Good (??) examples of artery clogging crap available from any Scottish chippy all battered and deep fried: sausages, haggis (naturally), black pudding, hamburgers, chicken, pies and pizza (I kid you not). Nothing is as bad as the deep fried Mars bar (I think they are called Milky Way in the States) or other chocolate bars. Add to that the proliferation of McDonalds etc. Food portions aren't quite up to American sizes yet but they are heading that way.

I did my degree in Glasgow and would regularly see school kids popping into the chippy at lunchtime and picking a chocolate bar off the shelf and asking the guy behind the counter to put it in the fryer for them It could be anything (I once saw a girl ask for a Creme egg to be fried - yuck), sometimes two of them would go halfs on a double finger bar like a twix and then spend the rest of their lunch money on cigarettes (another problem Scotland has - yay for the smoking ban ).

Don't get me wrong, I love Scotland, its a beautiful place but it deserves its title as the "Sick man of Europe".