Deep Fried Mac & Cheese, Fried Toffee Coffee Crunch Cake and so many more. They’ve been in the finals 15 times in 19 years of the competition. Thoughts: It’s fried cherry pie. With ice cream.

So it was with some horror that I read about the deep-fried mince pies being served at fish and chip shops across the country. Bill Rai, who owns Oh My Cod in Spalding, Lincolnshire, offers the ...