Popular chip shop invents new fried dessert - and people are upset

Although the national dish of Scotland will always be haggis, it is reasonable to consider the deep-fried Mars Bar the unofficial alternative.

Back in 1992, a chippy in Stonehaven, near Aberdeen in Scotland, became the talk of the town when they added a deep fried Mars bar to their menu. Since then, it's become a Scottish staple, with several other chippies and restaurants adding it to their menus.

The deep fried Mars bar has also inspired several other deep fried desserts to come about, such as deep fried Creme Eggs, and Nigella Lawson's deep fried Bounty bar, which she added to her cookbook in 1999.

Now, a chippy in Telford, just north west of Birmingham, has shared their own version of a battered dessert, but people don't know what to think about it.

The chippy, known as The Silver Fish, has now taken to social media to share their latest creation - the Battered Cuthbert.

In the video, the employees were seen holding a Cuthbert the Caterpillar cake from Aldi, showing it off for the camera before dipping the whole cake into the batter mixture.

After making sure Cuthbert was completely covered, they went on slowly put it into the fryer. The video then cut to a few minutes later when they picked up the now golden fried cake from the fryer, which looked a bit like a huge and weirdly shaped battered fish.

They went on to film all the angles of the cake to show how well fried it was before they went on to cut the cake in the middle.

Inside, the chocolate cake still looked light and moist, with the chocolate frosting inside it having melted slightly. It was then covered in the savoury batter mix.

"Wow. This looks unreal," the chippy worker said before taking a first bite of the cake. "Oh, my God. This is insanity. It's so good. This is the best caterpillar on the market. It's gonna be a 12 out of 10."

However, several people soon took to the comments to share their thoughts, including the official Aldi account, who wrote: "We said FREE Cuthbert not FRY Cuthbert."

A second viewer said: "Do you think God stays in heaven because he, too, lives in fear of what he's created here on Earth?"

"Does this hurt the Cuthbert?" a third person asked, while another said: "My arteries clogged with just a glimpse... and yet I want a slice so bad."

"This is something they'd unironically sell in Scotland," another wrote.

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