what to do in Scotland ?

[Ben So Furry]

The pies are still deep fried though.

Call me thick if I missed the joke but - deep fried pies really?

 

[Mailmonkey]

Nice to see they think of the kids' health a bit better....

special lol @ cans of juice

 

[parttime crackhead]

Call me thick if I missed the joke but - deep fried pies really?

I swear to god. I'm not taking the piss. That's not the standard way we eat pies btw. Just if you get one out the chippy. If I have a pie I put it in the oven, if I have I steak pie I put it in the oven, but if I go to a chippy the mad bastards have launched it in the fryer with everything else. You should see them, absolutely soaked in grease.

Nice to see they think of the kids' health a bit better....

special lol @ cans of juice

Hahaha! YAS! Told you! Fucking JUICE!

 

[parttime crackhead]

I can't find a good picture of a chippy pie. If you click on this to get it full size you'll see them hanging about at the back...



Fuck knows what that one sausage is doing back there. Why's there an odd number of sausages? They come in twos.

This one will fuck with your head. Walk into a Scottish chippy & ask for "a single sausage". You'll get two sausages %)

 

[Mailmonkey]

Is that not some more sausages on the right at the front? Or are they King ribs? Or smoked sausages?

 

[parttime crackhead]

Those would most likely be black puddings. Again, I'm genuinely not joking.

The small battered sausage shaped thing is a sausage, the big ones will be black puddings. I will not even attempt to defend this. I think haggis from the chippy might look the same, I'm not 100% sure as I'd never buy a black pudding or a haggis.

 

[Mailmonkey]

I can see it's not King ribs now as I think I've spotted them. Front middle?

 

[StoneHappyMonday]

I fucking Scottish cuisine. Told it before but fuck it. Went up there, half way stop at Gretna Green. The most fucking unromantic place in the world btw. Went for breakfast in this cafe. Reeked of smoke, one woman owner chugging away as she comes to us.

Do you do breakfast?

I just do egg roll or bacon roll.

Can we have egg and bacon? For breakfast?

Well, I just do egg roll and bacon roll. But I suppose I could do egg and bacon and you could call that breakfast. You got to have the rolls too though.

Er, alright.

She then brings us the worst egg and bacon you've ever seen, swimming in grease. I swear she's emptied the egg out of the frying pan with all the grease. Fucking all of it. Worst food ever. Tiny fucking place, reeking of fags, fag hasn't left her mouth. Parody of a parody.

She'd been wise enough to take money up front, I'll give her that.

 

[Ben So Furry]

Were they battered?

 

[parttime crackhead]

I fucking Scottish cuisine. Told it before but fuck it. Went up there, half way stop at Gretna Green. The most fucking unromantic place in the world btw. Went for breakfast in this cafe. Reeked of smoke, one woman owner chugging away as she comes to us.

Do you do breakfast?

I just do egg roll or bacon roll.

Can we have egg and bacon? For breakfast?

Well, I just do egg roll and bacon roll. But I suppose I could do egg and bacon and you could call that breakfast. You got to have the rolls too though.

Er, alright.

She then brings us the worst egg and bacon you've ever seen, swimming in grease. I swear she's emptied the egg out of the frying pan with all the grease. Fucking all of it. Worst food ever. Tiny fucking place, reeking of fags, fag hasn't left her mouth. Parody of a parody.

She'd been wise enough to take money up front, I'll give her that.

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Welcome to Scotland... ya English cunt

 

[Urbain]

so its a cheeseburger in a fucking bun then battered whole? Fucking hilarious that the worst criticism you can give it is the rubber cheese.

No no no, just the 'patty'. The cheese is layered INSIDE the meat, so it comes out all rubbery.

Fuckin hell. That sounds rough. I've had a battered burger before but never a cheeseburger.

But then round your way they shout that "salt n sauce" patter. A girl I know has recently moved to Glasgow from Edinburgh, she was distraught to find out that in Glasgow you apparently don't get "sauce" in the chippy. No pal, it's just that you get a choice of tomato sauce or brown sauce, not just salt & brown sauce watered down to fuck with vinegar.

Aye, not a fan of salt and sauce

 

[Mailmonkey]

Nice one for clearing that one up about the battered burgers Urbain...

Aye, not a fan of salt and sauce

No pal, it's just that you get a choice of tomato sauce or brown sauce, not just salt & brown sauce watered down to fuck with vinegar.

you fucking serious about Glasgow?? Salt and vinegar and brown sauce in a cocktail poured onto your king ribs or pizza crunch?

Christ I've got to stop asking "Are you serious about....?" Cos you are. You're just speaking the truth.

 

[Ben So Furry]

I still can't get over the pies. That has come as quite a shock. I believe you PTCH. Just shocked is all.

 

[JohnnyVodka]

Been a while since I been in Sleazy's, but I've never been charged door tax. It's an okay pub, particularly if you like more obscure indie at all. Been in the Art School a few times. Once wandered by mistake into a private room with pretentious art installations and managed to nick some free beer. The ABC does a good club night - lots of space to wander and mix of decent indie/dance.

 

[Mental Kenny]

This thread was awesome, the MM and crackhead convos about the culinary habits of the Scots are by far the most entertaining thing on EADD and have been so for a while. I have to get myself to Scotland it looks like I'd really enjoy the food. I only been there once when I was 11 years old, spent the summer in Aberdeen studying English. I don't remember much apart from spending all the money my parents had given me on Warhammer figurines at the Games Workshop in Edinburgh and being attacked by local kids on the bus who threw chips at me.

 

[parttime crackhead]

you fucking serious about Glasgow?? Salt and vinegar and brown sauce in a cocktail poured onto your king ribs or pizza crunch?

Christ I've got to stop asking "Are you serious about....?" Cos you are. You're just speaking the truth.

No. The "salt & sauce" thing is Edinburgh. I'm pretty sure round here we get the same as you when it comes to condiments in the chippy, salt & vinegar plus a sauce if you want it - tomato or brown. In Edinburgh they give you "salt & sauce" which is salt and "sauce" (brown sauce watered down with vinegar).

Been a while since I been in Sleazy's, but I've never been charged door tax. It's an okay pub, particularly if you like more obscure indie at all. Been in the Art School a few times. Once wandered by mistake into a private room with pretentious art installations and managed to nick some free beer. The ABC does a good club night - lots of space to wander and mix of decent indie/dance.

Sleazy's shout for at least a 5er any time I've been. I've only ever been to see mate's bands play. I think you're taking about the old Art School, which isn't even on Sauchiehall Street. ABC is rotten, I fucking hate that place. The big glitter ball is pretty cool though.

 

[brimz]

http://www.lalanterna-glasgow.co.uk/La Laterna in Hope Street is one of the best Italian Restaurants i have been to outside Italy . It has won plenty of awards & It's reasonable priced as well .

 

[knock]

You can get red sauce in Edinburgh if you ask for it. They just don't ask if you want it, and no-one ever does.

Pretty sure in Ireland it's chips and cheese, can anyone confirm? Possibly also SW Scotland? Seem to remember being in Stranraer and having chips and cheese.


Only Italian I know in Glasgow is Di Maggios, is that still open? Did good lasagne. In 2001.

 

[parttime crackhead]

Chips & cheese is pretty standard everywhere, is it not? Not really from the chippy though, more from the kebab shop etc.

I wouldn't really fancy chips & cheese with chip shop style chips. Chips, cheese & kebab sauce is a decent post-pub munchy if you're too skint for a kebab.

 

[knock]

I think it's an Ireland / west coast thing but I might be wrong! I've never heard anyone order chips and cheese in Edinburgh, or Fife, or anywhere I've been in England, or seen it on a menu. Or if I have I've forgotten all about it.