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the Japan deep-fried Mars bar award

Once visitors to Scotland have tired of its whisky, castles and heather clad hills, many go in search of its fabled gastronomic speciality: the deep fried Mars Bar, a symbol of the very worst of Celtic cuisine. This is the last thing that one would expect to find in Japan, a country so obsessed with its food and fabled for the purity of its ingredients, yet there also are a large number of what might be termed gastronomic black holes.

Our shortlist for Japan's deep fried Mars Bar award:

+ Camembert in a can and its rubbery siblings
+ Plastic ham, if you can call it ham, the piggy most definitely died in vain
+ Spongy sliced white bread
+ Crust free sandwiches designed for the toothless
+ Questionable sandwich fillings - potato salad sandwich anyone?
+ Sausages with thick plastic skin and fish fed pigs producing fishy, limp bacon 
+ Cheap, watery vegetables - sorry daikon lovers
+ Dustbin pizzas bedecked with wholly inappropriate toppings such as mayonnaise and fish eggs
+ $50 melons, $10 punnets of oversized watery strawberries, tasteless apples

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