Scots would live longer if....

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.... they ate like the English. www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15561501 And so would the Welsh and Northern Irish as well. So put down your deep fried Mars Bars O Celtic brethren, pick up a Yorkshire Pudding and do your arteries a favour. What could be controversial about that?

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo you can take my freedom, but you can't take my irn bru. Glass bottle full or orangey bubble goodness.

Mealy pudding with your mince and tatties? Mackies ice cream? Tablet? Chappit Neeps?

I like white pudding.....

Well we must be doing something right in my part of Scotland,East Dunbartonshire. According to this we have the highest life expectancy in Scotland.

Pan drops!!

Soor Plooms, brandy balls, lucky tatties!!

I've never tried white pudding.Am I missing out?

If you try it, have the defibrilators on stand-by.

tbf I have only ever eaten it when taken with drink slightly. It tastes much the same as black pudding....

I love black pudding. It's hard to find a really good one though. Most aren't spicy enough.

I've heard of red pudding too.What's in that?

We called the white pudding sausages 'mealy jimmies'.

Stovies are/is? healthy, though, wouldn't you think?

Red Pudding

It tastes the sam even though there's no blood in it?

A good black pudding must have a slightly cloying texture too,not too crumbly,but like the fudgy part of a brownie, or the soft centre of a cookie.

Are white puddings mealies in the disguise of batter?

Oooooh Stovies! How do you make yours? It's a never ending argument here on how to make stovies! I'm from Aberdeen, now in West lothian and the first time I was served up stovies down here, well, describes it well!! I am now on a one woman mission to convert the central belt to my stovie making ways!!

Thankyou,Sospanfach.

And black pudding must never be deep fried!

pretty much the same, even though no blood. Spicy and meaty and fatty. Texture different though.

phew, we'll I'm OK then - I'm Scottish but live in the South East of England ... And I see no-one has mentioned haggis?! Am veggie so don't eat the "real deal" but veggie haggis - no-one will ever get me to give that up, served with yorkshire pudding and lashings of gravy ... yum!

I love Haggis. Again as with black pudding it can be difficult to find a good one.Some makers try to fob us off with beef offal,which doesn't work.

But you must step away from your mealies and your neepies and your bru of irn..... be warned!!!! If you don't start knitting your own pasta or letting the sun dry your tomatoes as we do in that well known national paragon of rude health and long life that is 'England' you're all doomed. To coin a phrase.

Ok so they are saying on the news the English diet is still crap, just not as crap as ours and if we really want to make a big difference we need to take on a mediterranian (sp? typing quick, because i need the loo) diet. Thats pizza? I'm sorted!!

LaFilleSurLePont, for you, you can get it in a gift box

GlaikitFizzog I have the solution. Deep fried Pizza. That's that sorted.

Thankyou Seb. I think I'll give it a try.

I'd rather be doomed living in my beautiful country ....

Anyway I'm from good stock! All my grandparents were still going strong well into their late 80s early 90s!

So that'll be stuff deep fried in extra virgin greek/italian/spanish olive oil instead of smartprice vegetable oil - sorted! (PS Glaikit - how do you have your stovies? When I was growing up, ours was always corned beef and mashed tatties ..)