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?

The station is unrecognisable nowadays, last time I went, the old cobbled car park had changed into a shiny Tokyo style shopping centre.

How do you like your morning rolls? Soft,crispy or well fired?

I like mine soft with just a hint of crispiness.

OP you've got to admit it's an improvement.
(I've never loved Aberdeen, so I'm happy not to have to go outside )

Vanilla ice cream with great big bits of tablet through it then more tablet crumbled through it.

Yes but I was so surprised, it was like a time warp thing...

WitchofWoo 4 litre tub of Scottish tablet ice cream here

Oh crispy and warm with butter and golden syrup!!

Where does that extra R in northern come from OP?

Sweet home sweet home to meeeeeee...

ooh sorry Glaikit, I'm with your dad on this one. Fortunately though we don't need to have this argument because, as far as I know, there is no veggie alternative to stovies

And butteries .... oh my is my mouth watering! My mum always makes sure she's got plenty in when I visit, as well as plenty of proper butter so that I can drown said butteries (or "morning rollies" as we call them!) [stares off into the distance thinking of rollies but having to make do with croissants instead]

Waitrose is the answer

Does anyone know Stonehaven? There is a wee ye olde sweet shop on the sea front there called Aunt Betty's (i think) they make their own ice creams! Tablet, tuttie frutti (witht he actuall chew sweets, Irn Bru, macaroon

A lot of people i went to school with in Aberdeen said 'northren and pattren' ...so I always sing it like that.

there's only one difference between rowies and croisants, lard in rowies, butter in croisants!!

haha Glaikit - my granny also says "nothren"!! Am so glad I decided not to watch Loose Women instead of mn'ing! And have to say when I lived in Peterhead I don't remember ever having butteries - they were strictly a Morayshire thing

Anyone for a bridie?

and lots of salt in the rowies Glaikit, don't forget the salt!

yy OP!! Ah how I miss it! And I'm only 130 miles away!

salt smalt!!

They used to sell bridies and pies at break time at our school...lovely...

Yum to stovies I am making them this weekend...recipes differ area to area I find!! Mine involve hough and beef dripping

This thread is supposed to be about Northern Irish, Welsh and Scottish diets..

The Scottish have taken over the thread

Ha me and my friends at scool used to run the fuck tuck shop and we would get every break time a bakers tray full of hot rowies, sausage rolls, iced fingers, donuts all loverly calorie laden goodies!

My dad calls bridies Braddies!

See... not being Scottish myself... I can understand how, when having to gird yourself against bitter weather and all that stomping around on hillsides chasing sheep and seeing off marauding tribes of haggis, clad only in your tartan rugs with a bagpipe and a caber or two for company (did I get all the stereotypes in there?), you'd be quite justified in stoking up your fat stores on stovies, tablets, butteries and sugary lardiness of all kinds. But that, if you're sat behind a desk all day & not using up 4000 calories, these traditional delights might end up killing you.

This whole issue pretty much correlates directly with social and economic deprivation.

There are social and economically deprived parts of England that suffer similar health issues from overconsumption of alcohol and food.

Sounds harsh but ff benefits were not paid in cash but people had to turn up to a centre where they could get a nutritious cooked meal then the obsesity problem would disappear. If I showed you a video at 10.00 am of the post industrial town I live in it would look like the pictures we saw on TV this morning.

ff -= if

We do that all day we only sit to mumsnet