Editing Deep-fried Mars bar (section)

==Origin==

[[File:Carron fish bar.jpg|thumb|A banner on The Carron Fish Bar in [[Stonehaven]], reading "Birthplace of the World Famous Deep Fried Mars Bar", December 2007]]
The origins of the deep-fried Mars bar are disputed. John Davie claimed to have invented it in 1992 in The Haven Chip Bar (now The Carron)<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/deep-fried-mars-bar-creators-6140625|title=The man who created the deep-fried Mars bar has made a shock confession|first=Lauren|last=Crooks|date=July 26, 2015|website=mirror}}</ref> in [[Stonehaven]], near [[Aberdeen]] on Scotland's northeast coast.<ref name="McColm">{{cite news | last = McColm | first = Euan  | date = February 26, 2000 | title = No Haven for the Deep Fried Mars Bar; Birthplace of the Battered Choccy Treat Closes Down | work = [[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]] }}</ref><ref>French batter Mars bars menu publisher:BBC News http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/654750.stm BBC News</ref> It received rapidly escalating media attention after ''[[Aberdeen Evening Express]]'' writer Alastair Dalton reported on 23 August 1995, "HOT chocolate has become this summer's sizzler in Stonehaven chip shop. Mars Bars, deep-fried in batter, are being snapped up by sweet-toothed teenagers. The craze started when the school holidays began and has quickly taken hold says Ingram Mowatt (41), owner of The Haven, Allardice Terrace. "<ref>Aberdeen Evening Express, 23 August 1995</ref> The article included a quote from a Mars spokesperson, who said this was the most unusual way they had come across of enjoying a Mars bar. The following day the story was picked up and run in the ''[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]]'' in an article titled "Mars supper, please".<ref name="BBC19463119" /><ref name="LancetPIIS0140" />

Scottish broadsheets ''[[The Herald (Glasgow)|The Herald]]'' and ''[[The Scotsman]]'' ran the story the following day, and the UK broadsheets the day after, each adding their own cultural slant. On the fifth day, [[Keith Chegwin]] performed taste tests on ''[[The Big Breakfast]]'' TV programme and the story was covered by the [[BBC World Service]].

Other chip shops have disputed Carron's claim.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://thetab.com/2015/07/29/scottish-chip-shops-at-war-over-who-invented-the-deep-fried-mars-bar-47159 |title=Scottish chip shops at war over who invented the deep-fried Mars bar |website=thetab.com |date=2015-07-29 }}</ref> Tom Cummings, the former owner of Duncan Street Chip Shop in [[Banff, Aberdeenshire|Banff]], stated that he had sold fried Mars bars in the 1980s, and he had copied the recipe from the since defunct Dodie's Chip Shop in [[Buckie]] on the [[Moray Firth]] coast.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://insidemoray.com/2015/07/buckie-lays-claim-as-true-home-of-the-deep-fried-mars-bar/ |title=Buckie lays claim as true home of the deep fried Mars Bar |website=insidemoray.com |date=2015-07-28}}</ref>