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?

Nae bad, chavin awa, am nae a chav like, ken fit i mean?

My stoves are made with skinless sausages cause that's the way my mammy makes them. Mmm I want a stoves piece now.

Though in my family everything goes in a sandwich.
Pie. On a piece.
Sausage roll. On a piece.
Mars bar. On a piece.

Do any other Scottish folk do that or are we just greedy buggers in my family?

Nae bodder at a' Original, dinnae fash!
OvO double and triple doses of carbs in one sitting doesn't sound unusual round this way! Macaroni pies is a case in point :)

Aye peckin' schmohawk!!

In Aberdeen we have bacon rolls, down here W Lothian everything is on a roll, haggis roll, egg roll, pie in a roll, half a chicken in a roll I kid you not!!. WTF is that all about! A pie is a pie because you don;t need a roll its in its own little case already!!!!

The all night baker on George street in Aberdeen used to do lasange pies! Oh they were the best thing I'd every tasted after 2 for 1 night at Triple Kirks, but the next day, bluregh!!!

OP
ach awa an bile yer heid

I left Scotland when I was 19 and have never learned to cook stovies, mainly cause my dad makes it with corned beef but the beef version sounds good so will try that.

Lol at peh on a piece. My brother does that.

Anybody watching Scotland's greatest album tonight on STV,

Mmmmmm Butteries.

We're living too long, what's the point of staving off heart disease or cancer just to succumb to dementia and take years to die.

Eat drink and contribute to alleviating the ageing population and the pensions crisis.

I've had a right laugh this morning reading this whilst tucking into my tea and toast, plain bread doorstep of course dripping with butter served with marmalade and a wedge of cheese on the side.

Thanks to this thread we will be having stovies this weekend. I live in the Central belt but never put sausage, chicken or bacon in stovies. Surely corned beef, potato and onion is hash, not stovies.

When growing up Sunday breakfast was fried (IN LARD) sausage, bacon, egg, bread, potato scone, black pudding, fruit pudding or dumpling, all served with plain bread and butter. Oh and maybe some mushrooms and tomatoes to try and keep the arteries open.

Is it pan loafie, Jacaqueen, is it the endy bit, the heelie?

No a pan loaf is what the posh folk ate.

Plain loaf en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_loaf

We call the end the doorstep but I think some people do say heel or heelie.

Am pmsl at this thread this morning. Oh how it has brought back memories! I too left Scotland at 19 but it's so easy to switch back into Doric. My mum bought a book called "Doris and Chairlie" which is written in Doric - fanbloodytastic. My sister (who also lives doon sooth) and I were wetting ourselves reading it, but wetting ourselves even more when my dh tried to read it! Thanks for a great start to a Friday/weekend ladies!

The end of the bread is the outsider to me.

baggsie the pan loaf heelie.

Oh ye cannae fling pieces oot a twenty storey flat,
Several thousand hungry weans will testify tae that,
If it's butter, cheese or jeely, if the bread is plain or pan,
The odds against it reachin earth are 99 tae one!

Written at a time when folk in the tenement slums in Glasgow were relocated out to new high-rise developments and lifestyles changed drastically...

I also love Scotland the What? which was an Aberdeen doris comedy/show which is still available on cd. It includes a sketch where they are phoning up the Queen at Balmoral and speaking in broad Doric about what William and Harry want fae Sunty.
My dh said it is as impregnable as French to him...

Outside to me too

This is also Doric comedy genius...

I call it the heel fwiw

More Doric comedy from Desperate Fishwives, it crops up on Radio Scotland sometimes although not seen the stage version www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b007yc7w

Aye, it's a sare fecht fur a loafie o' breed

Just got lost in You tube land...some great old stuff on there...

soup

Anyone remember the Naked Video sketch "hello hello hello, this it the Outer Hebrides Broadcasting Association, calling civilisation!"

I do knit my own yoghurt, and would love to live in the Outer Hebrides...

Bettyhill needs an Ocado.

We simply must knit organic yoghurt.