On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Mistral wrote:
Iain Coleman wrote:
If anyone thinks there is some item of take-away food that the Scots would never dream of frying... they're wrong. It's our national sport.
Which leads me back to the question I meant to ask the last time you brought up snack foods - and I know it sounds off-topic, but it's for a fanfic, so it's not really - will someone tell me whether there are Twinkies in the U.K., or what the equivalent might be? (Twinkies over here are little (4") mass-produced fingers of sponge cake with fluffy cream filling inside, said to have a shelf life as enduring as cockroaches.)
We don't really do Twinkies here, I don't think. One could doubtless find a similar product on the supermarket shelf, but it wouldn't be anything well-known, I don't think.
I keep thinking a certain Scottish-y character might be
rather fond of them, though I don't think they'd be much good batter-fried.
You might want to go with Cadbury's Creme Eggs. Chocolate eggs, about 4cm long, hollow, and filled with an extremely sticky and sweet creamy goo. Popular, unhealthy, and apparently rather good covered in batter and deep-fried.
Iain