For me, American ales like Samuel Adams and Fat Tyre fit neatly into the niche between light beer and bitter beer. The "red" beer produced by some of the microbreweries is also extremely good.
Bud, Coors, Miller etc. are all too watery for my taste.
Sierra Nevada beer is extremely good.
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damn i totally forgot samuel adams, they are good mainstream beer company and have a good variety of types of beers and yea budweiser and coors are watered down crap, yea yith i agree, i too love a good ale and should go over atlantic and try some of you guys' lagers and ale and such. i have gotten a taste lately for a brand of german beer called wernesgruner that is sold cheap at aldi shops. on the cadbury eggs, they are a traditional here in the states aswell around easter time and plenty of people love them but i just have never been a fan of anything cream or peanut butter filled. and while on the subject of food stuffs i have a real curiosity about scotch eggs, they seem incredibly unhealthy (not that i would be unused to that being an american =p), seems i will have to go over there to try one. kind of odd though that it isn't a southern thing aswell, people here also love putting meat in everything or frying it (this fast food chain here called sonic literally offers "fried mac n cheese bites").
Not sure if you've heard but there's a Scottish delicacy of battered deep fried Mars bar. 
yea we have them here too (although they aren't mars bars) and also deep fried oreos and twinkies, even deep fried green beans 
Oooo god we don't do any good lager over here... well not the UK anyway! 
(BTW I'm not a lager drinker, can you tell?)
Oooo god we don't do any good lager over here... well not the UK anyway!
(BTW I'm not a lager drinker, can you tell?)
You're an anything drinker aren't you Rich? 
When I want your opinion - I'll tell you what it is!
Almost... but lager is just piss.
Not sure if you've heard but there's a Scottish delicacy of battered deep fried Mars bar.
Actually it's deep fried anything you want. Last month my local's special was a pizza topped with doner meat and another pizza battered and deep fried, like a heart attack sandwich, with chips. 
Not sure if you've heard but there's a Scottish delicacy of battered deep fried Mars bar.
Actually it's deep fried anything you want. Last month my local's special was a pizza topped with doner meat and another pizza battered and deep fried, like a heart attack sandwich, with chips.
Oooohh, I've never tried a battered pizza supper. The bog standard ones where they fold a frozen pizza in half and chuck it in the deep fat frier are not the best by any means, but your local's sounds good. Probably not something you should eat every day though.
Not sure if you've heard but there's a Scottish delicacy of battered deep fried Mars bar.
Why do we always get lumbered with this? It's available in like, 2 chippies or something!! And it is also available in the rest of the UK in equally crap chippies!! Ok, granted, it first came to light up here, but fat buggers are rife all over the UK, not just up here.
Unfortunately raffles is right though, far worse than a deep fried mars bar is the deep fried half pizza supper, or 'greasy sponge and chips' as I prefer to call it. Indeed it is a heart attack waiting to happen!
I have never seen anyone deep-fry a Mars bar at an English chippie......or a pizza.
I have never seen anyone deep-fry a Mars bar at an English chippie......or a pizza.
I have, even ate one. It was horrid. Even to my foolish child mouth.
TBH I've never seen the deep fried mars at a Scottish chippie either, only seen it on the news ages ago. Similarly with it being sold in southern parts. Unfortunately the 'deep fried pizza' (god it makes me feel ill every time I think of it!!) is available in just about every chippie up here! Even the haggis, which is disgusting enough as it is, can be bought deep fried. 
I honestly believe if you went into most chippies up here and asked nicely, they'd deep fry a car tyre for you. With chips of course. 
About 13/14 years ago I saw the deep fired mars bar for sale in several Edinburgh chip shops. Are you telling me it was just for the tourists ?
Only if they where fat tourists. I'm not a dweller in that fair city anyway, being a Glasgow boy. I guess we aren't sophisticated enough for DFMB's. 
Incidentally, did you, like Wladek try one?? Or did you have more sense (or less beer) than him??
They're on the menu in many midlands chippies as well. Tipton is notorious for them (as well as other things).
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Having spent a good bit of time in Glasgow [1989 to 1995 with gaps] and still getting up there a couple of times a year, the deep fried passion has wilted a little over the years.
Mr Chips beside the Garage used to deep fry Creme Eggs.
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Mr Chips beside the Garage used to deep fry Creme Eggs.
at the sonic chain of restaurants i mentioned earlier they now apparently have deep fried cheese cake bites. utterly disgusting, cheese cake is supposed to be cold!
this other place called tgi fridays has deep fried green bean sprouts, just like america to take something healthy and make it not healthy.
