Good Day Sunday (the 15th)

meowington · 2018-04-15T11:48:15.458Z

It’s excellent isn’t it?

shinymcshine · 2018-04-15T11:49:11.976Z

Square sausage is the bomb. Back me up here someone Scottish. @Lo-Pan

Losageless · 2018-04-15T11:49:19.361Z

Head now clear due to exercise ! Caring for baby whilst he eats his toes and also I’m doing some house when he is distracted.
Lunch with TV soonish and then hopefully a walk and a pint at decent pub later this afternoon. Onwards and upwards

profk · 2018-04-15T11:50:08.898Z

just woke up. poured myself some coffee but realized it was fucking decaf

TKC · 2018-04-15T11:50:59.251Z

Its making me want to rewatch the whole thing again!

Epimer · 2018-04-15T11:59:50.022Z

It’s literally the second greatest foodstuff in existence, after tattie scones.

shinymcshine · 2018-04-15T12:01:45.904Z

This man knows.

noise_ramones · 2018-04-15T12:04:52.546Z

seems like I’ve lived a deprived life as an englishman

profk · 2018-04-15T12:05:51.296Z

most scottish dishes are fictional

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Clapshot

Clapshot is a traditional Scottish dish that originated in Orkney and may be served with haggis, oatcakes, mince, sausages or cold meat. It is created by the combined mashing of swede turnips and potatoes ("neeps and tatties") with the addition of chives, butter or dripping, salt and pepper; some versions include onions.

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Rumbledethumps

Rumbledethumps is a traditional dish from the Scottish Borders. The main ingredients are potato, cabbage and onion. Similar to Irish colcannon, and English bubble and squeak, it is either served as an accompaniment to a main dish or as a main dish itself. Cooked leftovers from a roast meal can be used. However, to make fresh rumbledethumps one needs to lightly sauté the shredded onion and cabbage in butter until the onion is translucent and the cabbage wilted, then add some potatoes mashed with ...

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Stovies

Stovies, stovy tatties, stoved potatoes etc, stovers or stovocks is a Scottish dish based on potatoes. Recipes and ingredients vary widely but the dish contains potatoes, fat, usually (but not always) onions and often (but again not always) pieces of meat. In some versions, other vegetables may also be added. The potatoes are cooked by slow stewing in a closed pot with fat (lard, beef dripping or butter may be used) and water or sometimes other liquids, such as milk. Stovies may be served accom...

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Empire biscuit

An Empire biscuit (Imperial biscuit, double biscuit, German biscuit, Belgian biscuit, double shortbread, Empire cookie or biscuit bun) is a sweet biscuit popular in the United Kingdom, particularly in Scotland, and other Commonwealth countries. It is considered a traditional Scottish snack but is also popular in Northern Ireland, and it is an iconic dish in Winnipeg, Canada. The biscuit was originally known as the "Linzer biscuit", and later as the "Deutsch biscuit". With the outbreak of the F...

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Plain loaf

A plain loaf, slices of which are known in Scots as plain breid (pronounced [plen brid]), is a traditional style of loaf made chiefly in Scotland and Ireland. It has a dark, well-fired crust on the top and bottom of the bread. There is no crust on the sides due to the unbaked loaves being stuck together in batches, baked together then torn into individual loaves afterwards. The term batch loaf is sometimes used. This style of bread does not fit well in most modern toasters due to the greate

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Soor ploom

A Soor ploom (Scots for "sour plum") is a sharp flavoured, round, green boiled sweet originally associated with Galashiels, Scotland. They are sold loose by weight in paper bags, traditionally in "quarters" — a quarter of a pound. They are said to have been first made in 1337 in commemoration of a skirmish near Galashiels. A raiding party from England were overwhelmed and killed by local men when discovered eating unripe plums. A "childhood favourite," they are pale green and "slightly acid in ...

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Clootie

A clootie (also cloutie; from the Old English clūt: "a piece of cloth or leather; a patch; a rag") is a strip or piece of cloth, a rag or item of clothing; it can also refer to fabric used in the patching of clothes or the making of proddy rugs (a.k.a. "clootie mats"). The saying "Ne'er cast a cloot til Mey's oot" conveys a warning not to shed any clothes before the summer has fully arrived and the May flowers (hawthorn blossoms) are in full bloom. The saying also appears in English as "Ne'er ...

profk · 2018-04-15T12:06:24.305Z

‘plain loaf’ has done me a bit.

pinkybrain · 2018-04-15T12:10:12.825Z

Work has been cancelled ffs, only got the call when I was halfway there. Fuck this

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NickDS · 2018-04-15T12:11:32.893Z

So that is 6 sausages/sausage variants? I’m impressed.

anon80418723 · 2018-04-15T12:13:21.085Z

Plain loaf is the best toast bread. Plain loaf with Graham’s salted butter - would eat it for every meal.

Lo-Pan · 2018-04-15T12:23:04.882Z

Ye canny whack a square sausage roll

Lo-Pan · 2018-04-15T12:25:03.484Z

You taking the piss oot of my soor plooms?!

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Jeremys_Iron · 2018-04-15T12:29:05.653Z

Halp.

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keith · 2018-04-15T12:36:28.957Z

I’ve hardly eaten any of these.

I need to sort my life out.

keith · 2018-04-15T12:38:01.814Z

I’m watching Rastamouse with The Child and amusing myself with the idea of how good it’d be if President Wensley Dale was voiced by Senator Clay Davis.

anon89873996 · 2018-04-15T12:40:50.881Z

I tried a different way of poaching an egg earlier, first time results were promising. I may actually be able to make decent poached eggs now

shinymcshine · 2018-04-15T12:41:42.604Z

Sssshhhhheeeeeiiiit