a question for our cousins North of the border
 

I have just enjoyed my supper of a few crackers topped with Stilton and two glasses of vintage port. To me this is the most enjoyable way to eat cheese and probably typically English.

I there anything that you would describe as typically Scottish in terms of traditional, enjoyable and in regular use. So that means no deep fried mars bars etc. I have eaten the obligatory burns night haggis with tatties/neeps etc. and enjoyed some very good food in Scotland.(But could never claim to be traditionally Scottish )I just want to know what normal people think is a good snack or supper?. Please, no porridge, it brings back memories of reading kidnapped as a child.

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Oatcakes (preferably of the Orcadian "Stockans" variety) and Cheese (any damn cheese without mould!!!! Sorry just can't go Stilton :pukel:)

And Damn you Tim, I now have the munchies :)

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Chicken tikka masala, possibly.

Nah, serious answer... Scottish traditional foods are mostly based around making something more interesting to eat out of boring staples. Veg dishes, stuff like haggis... Similiar to Irish, Polish and Russian food that. Not great access to spices and seasoning either. Subsistence cuisine tends to have very interesting dishes, but it's not usually stuff you'd actually choose to eat if you live somewhere that you can grow something nice. Soups too, of course. There were loads of hunter-gatherer dishes, stuff based around indigenous animals, but that all got left behind long ago (plus, we overfished our boars, deer, birds etc)

So, a lot of the scottish foods that are actually good to eat are fish based... I give you the Arbroath Smokie. Also stuff like cabbielaw, and I think we can lay claim to smoked salmon too.

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Scotland (traditionally) has one of the healthiest diest in the world - akin to a Northern italian diet but sadly we have Glasgow that gave us the bad reputation.

Cullen skink
Square slice (glasgow)
Scotch broth
Prawns (none of your langoustine pish)
Mince pie (the round variety)
Clapshot (mashed tatties)
Tattie scones
arbroath smokies

Apple frushie
Hatted kit
Marmalade pudding
Tipsy Laird
Raspberry cranachan

Butteries (Eber deen)
Pan loaf
Shortbread
Tablet


Howtowdie with drappit eggs
Potted hough
Scotch egg
Skirlie
Stovies

Rollmop (pickled herring)
Finnan haddie (Similar to smokies)
kippers

**** a leekie (Not pishing aginst a wa' after a night on the bleesh)


I love cooking....:)

ps..... as a testimony to the west coast diet...100% true story - in Scotland there are numerous projects of recycling human waste into fuel pellets. The tenders went out in the Euro Journal. The company that wonn the tender has successfully implemented conversion processes with the exception of the west coast of Scotland (primarily Glasgow).The process failed and they could not convert the waste into pellets due to an extremely high percentage of fat in their ****e!

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yer mam's stovies - pure class!

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That just about covers everything stuartyboy!!

One omission tho.

Stornoway Black Pudding. MMMMmmm.



The older generation would probably add Salt Herring, but cant stomach it myself.

Much prefer to go out and catch a few Loch Dunvegan mackerel, then grill em. Cant get fresher than that. lol. (already on the cards for next weekend)

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Haggis...you're making me really hungry. Fresh caught mackerel yummy

Oh....Dundee cake

Dingwall haggis!

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Don't forget Whisky!

Reeled in 100 odd Mackerel with a mate off the rocks at Garelochhead, and then at a deep spot further down the loch the next day. 6 feathers on a line and pulling in 3 - 6 fish almost every cast. BBQ'd the first 50 with Dijon mustard and fed the entire campsite in one big fishy nosh up on the Saturday night. Had a great night meeting loads of folk and getting ****ed. On the Sunday bought home 25 each, filled our freezers and ate Mackerel until we got so sick of it we made soup and pate.

Fish is a biggie up here 'cos we can be cooking it even before rigor mortis has set in. Lots of wee places to buy fish caught on small day boats too. Fish at the supermarket have all gone floppy again having had rigor mortis over a week earlier. Big commercial trawlers sailing out of the likes of Hull are at sea with the catch on ice for 7 - 10 days before it even hits the market.

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Its not a meal but what about

Tunnocks Teacakes and Caramel Logs or Strathaven Toffee :smt045

and dont forget

Black Pudding / White Pudding / Red Pudding and Lorne Sausage

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Stop this. STOP THIS NOW!!! i'm down my olds i can't go raiding their kitchen... Blooming starvin

hasn't anyone mentioned IRN BRU??? its my staple diet i can't start the morning without a can... i'd inject the stuff if it made it any better...