The Scottish diet
Jumbo sausage in batter with chips (fries), anyone? For a little light snack?
We didn't indulge when we stopped at The Hungry Haggis fish and chip restaurant in Aviemore, on our way back from Caithness. We just wanted honest-to-goodness fish and chips. The night was wet and stormy, and the steamed-up windows of the restaurant beckoned us in.
That trip was a microcosm of a certain type of Scottish cuisine. A meal in an Indian restaurant in Tain on the way north. Soup and cheese toasties at North Highland College during the Mod. Had we wanted dessert we could have had a range of home baking. Haribo Tangfastics Sour Mix sweets to while away the journey once it got dark.
We redeemed ourselves by starting breakfast at The Auld Post Office B&B with fresh fruit salad and fruit juice.
After that we had a choice of porridge or cereals with yoghurt, then full Scottish breakfast (bacon, eggs, sausage, baked beans, mushrooms and tomato) or scrambled eggs and Orkney smoked salmon. Then toast and marmalade. Bliss.
What a hilarious menu!
ReplyDeleteWhat?! No deep-fried Mars bars??
ReplyDeleteYummm!!!
ReplyDeletewv: hashers!!!
Wow... if that's a light meal, I don't want to know what a regular entree is like. Definitely a good thing to keep in mind should I ever have the opportunity to visit!!
ReplyDeleteHaribo Tangfastics Sour Mix ???
ReplyDeleteWhen did Soor Plooms go out of fashion?
Next time try stopping at Storehouse at of Foulis (Nr Evanton - not far north of Inverness)
Good heavens, that's some majorly heavy food!!! I wouldn't need to eat anything else after just the starter! I really like the look of your fruit though!
ReplyDeleteFish & chips sound good. I was introduced to Fish & chips via Arthur Treacher's restaurants, where I experienced malt vinegar on fish & chips for the first time. The bowl of fruit looks good too.
ReplyDeleteI loved this post!! We ate many a 'full Scottish breakfast' on our visit. We took the train to Inverness and went to The Hootenanny for dinner and some real Scottish music! Do you know the kind of food they serve there? THAI! It was delicious but unexpected!
ReplyDeleteDeep fried Pizza!?! Yuck. The fruit looks great.
ReplyDeleteThat fruit salad looks great, and I love fish & chips, but the top three items on that menu hold no appeal for me. Isn't Scotland the home of the deep-fried Mars Bar? I could almost try one of those, but my arteries are hardening just thinking about it!
ReplyDeleteMmm, now you really made me hungry! Your traditional Scottish food is quite different from the Norwegian, and I hope I will be able to try it sometime!! All the best from Anette :)
ReplyDeleteA native in exile, still visit and go to the chip shops but never heard of RED pudding. What on earth is it?
ReplyDeleteI looove scrambled eggs and smoked salmon. I have never understood the concept of a deep fried pizza. Ugh. But every once in awhile the best thing in the world is a fish supper, especially when it is cold and dark.
ReplyDeleteAh I have fond memories of those Scottish fish and chips!!
ReplyDeleteI even had black pudding once and liked it, then found out what it was! :-)
Interesting reactions!
ReplyDeleteMal, thanks for the recommendation of somewhere to eat north of Inverness.
Linda, I've never been to the Hootenanny in Inverness - must try it.
Foody and Happyone, my husband will eat the occasional white pudding, I love black pudding as part of a Scottish breakfast, but we don't like red pudding. It's a kind of mixed meat sausage, deep fried in batter. I will post a photo one day to shock you. There's a hilarious Wikipedia article about it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_pudding, which very pompously says, "this article does not cite any references or sources"...