Please can we have a Scottish MN section - Mawsnet, mebbe?

[StayingSamVimesGirl]

Following on from discussion on another thread - could we have a Scottish section, please?

The local information is good, but it is too local to apply to the whole of Scotland, if you see what I mean.

I'm also v happy with MumsnetAlba assuming of course that MNHQ actually a agree with all of this-

Alba is shorter? MumsnetScotland is a lot more typing....

Also, what's wrong with Alba

No-one calls Scotland 'Alba' outside of a tiny Gaelic speaking population, that's why. We wouldn't actually have to type MumsnetScotland - it would be the title of a thread that we would post under.

I think a wee Scottish section would be braw.
Jocknet? (joke)

Unless we were signposting people towards it?

I guess you're right though, it never occurred to me that people would not know what Alba meant/ would find it divisive.

There are other threads with just as many letters in them though - it's not that long a name to type out and it would probably be shortened to MNScotland or something, like S&B often it.

I didn't know what Alba meant until about a year ago, had never heard it.

I have lived in Scotland for over 6 years now, and I have not yet had a deep fried mars bar. I'll get packed, shall I?

I don't think many people actually eat deep fried mars bars do they? I was born here and have lived here for over 40 years, and I can only think of one person I know that has eaten one.

I don't know anyone that's had one either.

But, I did once queue behind a teenager in a chippy who ordered a Cadbury's caramel supper...so some people are indeed eating deep fried chocolate

I know of someone who's had a deep fried Mars Bar - but she's from Coatbridge

I've never had a deep fried Mars bar either . I did used to be rather fond of deep fried pizza, chips, and irn bru. Never pizza crunch though, I do have some standards!

What is this pizza crunch of which you speak??!

A deep fried Mars Bar actually sounds quite delicious - in a dirty sort of way

I hope you don't mind an Englander voicing an opinion but I think it's a good idea to have a Scottish section

Deep fried pizza is a pure unsullied pizza simply cooked in the fryer.
The abomination that is pizza crunch is battered before frying

That sounds lovely...what am I missing?!

"Deep fried pizza is a pure unsullied pizza"

I like deep fried pizza, but, that is not a sentence I've ever imagined seeing, lol.

I can kind of wrap my head round fried chocolate, I don't fancy it, but gooey greasy chocolatey stuff, ok...but as a supper?...

Oh I've never had a pizza crunch but my local chippy does deep fried Mars Bars, Ive never had one, neither have the DC.

I've had NZ's equivalent, the deep fried Moro bar, and it was so delicious I've had more than one.

In which case, you are more than welcome to MNScotland Grouchy!

I'm onboard, even if I'm not a "maw". (Edinburgh-ish here).

I've seen a deep fried bounty on a chippy menu - think that would be lush. First time we stood in queue behind someone who ordered pizza and the chippy guy unwrapped a frozen pizza and threw it in the fat fryer DH and I were like this to each other

DH promises me that deep fried pizza is amazing but I refuse to believe him, mostly because the last time he had one he was at school.

I've not actually been brave enough to try a deep fried Mars bar over here. Suspect my taste buds have matured somewhat in the years since I was a student and regularly had ice cream for lunch.

Deep fried pizzas are amazing...I mean you can almost hear your arteries hardening as you eat it, but it's worth it.