Scots would live longer if....

[CogitoErgoSometimes]

.... 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?

With slices of white pudding? Supersize me...

sospanfach even I think a deep fried pizza is a tiny winey step too fat!!

typo! too far!! :o

they do exist though, don't they....I've never tried one...

It's not what we eat but worrying about it does the damage.

Deluxe flavoured Arran cheese yumm

Has anyone mentioned morning rolls yet? You can't beat those.

no, you can't beat Tunnocks Teacakes either.....

Scottish tablet

kando do you really want to start this debate :o!!

Dad makes his with corned beef and cubed potatoes, cooked until they fall apart!

I use casserole beef, onions, stock and potatoes whack it all in the slow cooker the nigth before let it mush down. Serve with oatcakes and a glass of milk!! Mmmmmm heaven on a plate!!

Down here they use sausages, chicken, bacon (think breakfast leftovers) and any veg going off at the bottom of the fridge!!

Butteries (rowies), LaFille?

With butter and jam.

The best stovies I had were made by a relative in Aberdeenshire. My mum asked for the recipe, 'weeel, first hing in the inyins...' the rest involved miscellaneous bits of game, lots of black pepper, chicken stock and potatoes.

I've never tried a butterie or rowie before. I'm a Glaswegian.I'm loyal to my morning rolls.

That said in the interests of scientific research I'll have to track them down and sample one.

Do you have a roll with egg and tattie scone with your irn bru for a hangover?

Witch

Do you spread your butteries on the rough or smooth side? I like a bit of rough, and you get more butter on that way. Maybe the healthy long living Englanders are spreading on the smooth side!

Oh how could I forget Aberdeen Rowies!! Half your dail calories in one compact salty doughy lardy buttery lovliness! Only available from one bakery in aberdeen. Accept no immitations!

I love Tunnocks teacakes,and caramel logs.Caramel wafers are pretty good too,but I favour their messier cousin.

You have to get butteries from the NE. They're different down south.
(Actually they're different from when I wis a lassie, I think they used lard then.)

Witch are you a Granite City girl??

My mum brings me aid packages of Rowies from Aitkens Baker LaPrune! They still use lard!

Stop tempting me with delicious goodies,Seb.

I love a morning roll with egg and potato scone,even more so if you add a slice of black pudding too,but I don't drink alcohol,so i can't use a hangover as an excuse.

Smooth side mostly but sometimes toast them and cut them open, posh like.

Check all the Scots out! The OP's report said we ought to worry and we are all having a food ceilidh at the very thought of tablet and butteries!

Has anyone had the tablet ice cream from the ice cream shop in St Andrews?

Ooh. Ooh. Is it anywhere near Aiberdeen station?
I only ever go to change trains there.

They don't freeze well, though Glaikit, must be all that fat..

All together now

Tablet ice cream? What genius thought of that?
Hmm, I have an ice-cream maker..... has it got bits in?