{"id":6697,"date":"2012-09-10T14:02:11","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/?p=6697"},"modified":"2012-09-10T14:03:43","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T13:03:43","slug":"the-fight-over-the-birth-of-the-deep-fried-mars-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2012\/09\/the-fight-over-the-birth-of-the-deep-fried-mars-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"The fight over the birth of the deep-fried Mars Bar"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>The chip shop owner who first served it up 20 years ago has been warned against claiming special status for the fatty treat, under the EU&#8217;s Protected Food Name Scheme. Mars&#8217; lawyers wrote to the owners of the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, saying they wouldn&#8217;t support such an application because the deep-fried bar is against its commitment to healthy living.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Two points. I&#8217;m pretty sure there are a few chippies in Edinburgh who would question who cooked the traditionally Scottish delicacy first, and secondly what is &#8216;Mars&#8217; commitment to healthy living?&#8217; Asking you to work, rest, <em>and<\/em> play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The chip shop owner who first served it up 20 years ago has been warned against claiming special status for the fatty treat, under the EU&#8217;s Protected Food Name Scheme. Mars&#8217; lawyers wrote to the owners of the Carron Fish Bar in Stonehaven, Aberdeenshire, saying they wouldn&#8217;t support such an application because the deep-fried bar is against its commitment to healthy living. Two points. I&#8217;m pretty sure there are a few chippies in Edinburgh who would question who cooked the traditionally Scottish delicacy first, and secondly what is &#8216;Mars&#8217; commitment to healthy living?&#8217; Asking you to work, rest, and play?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-link-log","comments-off"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-1K1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}