Do people actually eat deep-fried Mars bars?

Take a normal chocolate bar, place in batter, put in deep-fat fryer and a few minutes later you have a dubious treat

They surveyed hundreds of fish and chip shops in Scotland to find out if "the delicacy" was available and if people were actually buying them.

It found 66 shops which sold them, 22% of those who answered the survey.

David Morrison, senior lecturer in chronic disease epidemiology at the University of Glasgow, was one of the experts who did the research.

The deep-fried Mars bar is seen as a "totem" for something which is a significant driver of ill health, obesity and high-fat diets, he says.

Morrison doesn't want to "demonise" a single food stuff but notes that it is well-known that high-fat and high-sugar foods lead to health problems.

Annie Anderson, from the Centre for Public Health Nutrition Research at the University of Dundee, used to send her medical students out into the city to see if they could find somewhere that sold deep-fried Mars bar.