muso wrote on Feb 21
st, 2012 at 1:58pm:
Grey wrote on Feb 16
th, 2012 at 11:42am:
Frances wrote on Feb 15
th, 2012 at 10:38pm:
[quote author=756273756664070 link=1317089609/166#166 date=1329301244] My dear fellow the Scots are hard pressed to make porridge.
And on what do you base that statement? If you are so knowledgable on the subject, would you care to enlighten us as to what makes the perfect porridge and where it can be found? Are you talking about steel cut or rolled oats or maybe some other grains?
Based on my knowledge of the Scots, Frances.
I guess you might well be Scottish, as they were always fond of France. Look The Scots are very good at a number of things, engineering and science generally, military music, comedy festivals, annoying the English. But as cooks....I'm afraid if we (the English) didn't throw some offal and scraps over the wall from time to time so they can make that haggis abomination, they'd have starved centuries ago - okay salmon and grouse I'll grant you. Though grouse are more fun to shoot at than eat. Venison? Well that just shows how desperately hungry they are. Anybody can see that Scottish deer are to be looked at not eaten. It's a cold barren rocky place not much use for veggie growing. Especially the veggies native to central and Southern America any half decent cuisine relys on.
I'd give a good recipe for porridge, but you'd think it pretentious and it lacks salt.
Quote: I think it's fair to say that the Scots have a new found confidence, especially with the prospect of independence.
Amazing the number of countries that have faced the prospect of independence like that. Uganda, Zimbabwe, the USA. Talking about civil war it wouldn't surprise me if that was high on the agenda.
Quote:You did know of course that the standard of education in Scotland was always much higher than that in England. Prior to the Education Act, the literacy rate in England was in the low 30%'s, whereas Scotland had almost universal literacy for several hundred years before that, due to the prevalence of parish schooling.
That's so the clans could keep score and accounts of who had done the wrong thing by who. See above.
Quote:I remember being impressed by the high standard of handwriting of by 16th century relatives during my geneology research afe years ago.
Impressing you wouldn't be hard if that sentence is anything to judge by.
Quote:I've also been a Burns Night MC on many occasions, so if you want to cast cultural aspersions against the Scots, I have a mighty arsenal with which to fight back the English onslaught.
Hit me with your best shot
Quote:- Aye, and tha's no how ye make porridge.
I used to eat haggis. On my visits to Scotland, I now eat vegetarian haggis. It's very tasty.
The best way to make porridge is to burn the recipe and make muesli instead. A vegetarian Haggis now there's a thing. We know what a vegetarian spaghetti ragu is, it's a spaghetti ragu without any meat. Pretty poor fare. But a vegetarian haggis... what's that? It's bullshyte isn't it?
Actually if you stuffed a condom with cow dung and boiled the crap out of it that's about as close as you could get
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