Here’s an intriguing article from the Guardian on Scottish food, an often-underrated cuisine. The health brigade will be both upset and gratified by this extract:
”The abuse of fatty foods (as well as alcohol, cigarettes and heroin) can only, in the end, be put down to a particularly phlegmatic “Get tae f***!” Rab C Nesbitt/Braveheart side to the national character, which, it has to be said, has held us in pretty good stead over the years. That and, of course, the traditional Scottish hatred of waste.
“I would hate to die with a heart attack and waste a good liver, kidney and brains,” said famous folksinger Hamish Imlach. “When I die, I want everything to be knackered.” And he did of course, aged 56. “