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?

Oh Glaikit. Is it still there? I haven't been to Aberdeen for years. I would also be interested to know the fate of the Shakkin' Briggie. Is that still standing?

MmeLindor

I will always think of you as MmeMcLindor from now on...

In my mind you're a very soignée French laydee with a tartan beret

My aunt used to make home made deep fried mars bars. They taste quite nice. Incredibly sugary and you'll feel sick after a bite or two. Also the insides are generally molten.

My mum loves deep fried pizza. When i was (much) younger I temped for a summer. One of the boys I worked with always ate pizza crunch for lunch (battered, deep fried pizza). You can get just about anything deep fried in a Scottish chip shop. I'm always disappointed in the lack of choice and variety on offer down here.

I've had a deep fried pizza one drunken night in edinburgh.

have to say it was horrid

nevber understood why yu would deep fry a Mars bar - although mars bar melted under the grill on to toast was a student delicacy of mine

but i am interested in deep fried Bounty Bars

Midnightexpress yes it is! Still going strong, although the supermarket part is now a Costcutter branded store. The bakery and cake lady are still the same! I used to work round the corner and Friday was funcy piece day!!

Which shakkin Briggie do you mean? The little white one at Maryculter? It's still there but closed to the public for safety reasons.

I think the Daily Mash says it better than I could.

Scotland Needs Another Waitrose

Funcy piece

I remember working as a cleaner in the hospitals in Aberdeen as a teenager, and we had to ask the patients if they wanted a Funcy piece with their cup of tea. I always thought until then that it was anither word for a mistress!

Anither=another

Keyboard is breaking oot into Doric

The geography of the land may put paid to the last paragraph of your post, MoreBeta.

Fresh fruit and vegetables can be limited and very expensive in eg Stornoway, Barra or Shetland plus wages there are lower than further south so people tend to eat what they can readily buy or grow plus the meals on wheels scheme was stopped in many areas due to cut backs.

I think one of the worst adult mortality rates in the world (average age for men 54 iirc) is found in Govan, Glasgow and that would correlate with areas of social and economic deprivation.

Onyway, el hae twa pehs an' an ingin' een an a.

Div ye nae ken fit wye tae mak stovies quinie?

I'll be aff nae weel wi a sair heid the morn's morn efter this thread...

fit quinie ar yi referrin ti OP? My wyes i best wye in ma iver sae humble opinion!

Ye some cerapetamol (my grandmas actual translation) fur yer sair heid!

Och dinna fash yersel' quine.

:o

I could eat a scabby heided wean efter reading this thread

I huv dreams aboot battered haggis

Glaikit

It wisnae you I wis talkin tae, it wis the Frinch quine, ive nae doot ava aboot yer cookin, Im gye sure it's affy fine..

Onywye

Fit'r all haein fer yer tea the nicht?

Some forrin muck.

(but I did have a sausage roll for my lunch).

We're having omelettes with blue cheese, spinach and mushroom.
Not very Scottish...

Maybe I should bread the omelettes and deep fry them in honour of this thread

We hud spaghetti carbonara
It wis jist dandy

Aye aye, ken fit yer spikkin about. We had beef the nicht, it was fine! Glaikit yer stovies sound braw, ah cannae be daein wi corned beef is it
And what about cullen skink, Dean's shortbread, rizza's ice cream, pink fir apple tatties, local beef and game (that's three mentions of beef now ), strathdon blue cheese... loads of foodie treats in Aberdeenshire :)

Schmohawk

Far d'ye bide?

I'm guessing you're an Aiberdeen Weegie expat?

Foo's yer doos, Original? Yer dead right! Or as ma faither wid say- am I right or a meringue??? Boom boom!