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LOL, brilliant marketing! Dirty Dick's pub is in Edinburgh, it was 3 doors along from my old apartment (their fish & chips and haggis burgers are actually excellent!).
Right opposite we had another pub called "Filthy McNasty's".
I never ate there.
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Oh yes...... a burger and a big spoonful of haggis......... on a bun. Very very tasty, I promise!
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I'm sure. Still, while I've always wanted to go to Scotland, if I ever do, I'm bringing sandwiches. And beer.
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That is wise stinkie
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Oh come on! Now while I am a big Belgian beer fan, Scotland has it's own share of excellent traditional ales (Ossian, Deuchars, amongst others) although for someone used to >7% Trappiste Ales they'll seem pretty weak at between 3% and 5%. Nevertheless, Harvieston, Traquair, Orkney Brewery and Brewdog are all producing world class strong ales, porters and imperial stouts which shouldn't give a Belgian anything to complain about. I have 4 bottles of Harvieston's 8% Ola Dubh (Gaelic for "Black Oil") sitting in my drinks cabinet right now waiting for a deserving winter evening- wonderful black ale aged in casks previously use for aging Highland Park single malt- 1 x 12 year old and 3 x 18 year olds. I've tried them before- the 12 year old is a little rough, the whisky taste is overpowering and it's too oakey, but the 18 year old is remarkable- very smooth, the whisky, vanilla and oak tones are much more subtle and if the truth be told I'd often rather drink 3cl of this than 3cl of 18 year old Highland Park. They also make 30 and 40 year old variants, but aside from being insanely expensive for beer (16USD+ for 33cl) I've heard they're not that great.
As for the food, well, no Scottish food is not one of the great cuisines if the world (as if!), but haggis is truly delicious. I've served it to many of my foreign friends at traditional Scots "Burns Suppers" and everyone liked it (well, those who survived anyway
).(Linea, don't get me started on English food and drink- Liver and Onions washed down with a pint of Carling anyone? Only kidding, I'm half-English after all.
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@jackson said:
wonderful black ale aged in casks previously use for aging Highland Park single malt
Hmm, I like the sound of that. I'll get me some if I happen to come across it.
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@unknownuser said:
As for the food, well, no Scottish food is not one of the great cuisines if the world .....
Oh I don't know Jackson, the battered mars bar has a certain charm.
@unknownuser said:
Don't get me started on English food and drink- Liver and Onions washed down with a pint of Carling anyone?
LOL! When was the last time you were in an English pub or restaurant? The mid 70's?! Food in England is so diverse now. Microwave Lasagne anybody?
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LOL - I actually made deep fried Mars Bars for an international food buffet party a few years ago. I had no idea how to make batter back then, so I went to my local (Swedish) supermarket, bought a handful of Mars Bars and a packet of tempura batter, sliced the Mars Bars up, coated them in the batter and fried them. I only made them as a novelty anyway so on tasting the horrendous results I thought I may as well put them out for anyone daft/brave enough to try them- bizarrely the plate was empty in no time, one French-Canadian guy came back for seconds saying he had been skeptical, but he really liked it. Here's the thing- I suspect "real" deep fried Mars Bars are made with plain batter- water and flour. The just-add-water Japanese tempura batter I'd bought was flavoured with, among other things.... garlic. They tasted absolutely disgusting. BTW, the whole deep fried Mars Bars thing is virtually an urban legend, stemming from one chip shop making them at the request of some school kids. I have seen them listed on the "menus" of a couple of chip shops, but I don't think I know a single person who ever tried one. It's more of an in-joke than something anyone actually orders.
@linea said:
LOL! When was the last time you were in an English pub or restaurant? The mid 70's?! Food in England is so diverse now. Microwave Lasagne anybody?
Haha, my point is an Englishman would find it no harder to find great food in Scotland than a Scotman would in England, especially if you take into account that England's population is 10 times that of Scotland. There are few meals anywhere which can beat the satisfaction of tucking into a proper Yorkshire Sunday roast beef dinner with all the trimmings. I just got back from Berlin and, while German traditional cuisine is hardly world-renowned, modern Germans' tastes are so well developed that I haven't eaten so well in a long long time. In fact the only country I've been to where I couldn't find a single decent restaurant was the Czech Republic (and service with smile seemed to be an alien concept), but that was over 10 years ago.
OK, I'll get down off my soap box now, but that's got me thinking, it's about time I did a Sunday roast!
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