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5:51 pm
May 7, 2010
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mmmmm food.
I have just eaten and feel enormously happy with myself.
Being Scottish but living in England I have found I do miss a lot of foodie things which I can’t get here. Bread for one thing, oh how I would love to have a plain loaf … but anyway one of the things I have always missed is square slice sausage. English peoplecall it Lorne Sausage and seem to be quite happy to eat something made out of sawdust and the bum hairs and farts of old cows. I mean come on when you cook the stuff it stays PINK honestly – is that not disgusting!!!
Anyway I found in an old recipe book instructions for making my own sausage mix and did so. Tonight I had two slices with an egg and some buttered bread on the side. Delicious.
Now if only I knew how to make plain bread I’d be in heaven.
Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves - Boudica addressing the tribes Circa AD60
7:16 pm
November 18, 2010
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I understand. I really miss f@ggots, black pudding and pease pudding. D’Hoffryn misses Scotch eggs…
It's always bunnies.
8:01 pm
February 24, 2010
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I don’t understand. There are no plain loaves of bread in England? You guys are in a deeper recession than I thought.
And Anyanka, I have no idea what you miss. Except for the egg part. 
12:48 am
January 9, 2010
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Ahh scotch eggs, they’re something I miss since becoming a vegetarian. And when I was a kid and traveling around England and we’d go to a pub for lunch I always had to have scampi and chips. Yum! And the deli at the local supermarket used to do the best vegetarian cornish pasties. But they don’t make them anymore 
7:37 am
October 31, 2010
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Sharon said
I don’t understand. There are no plain loaves of bread in England? You guys are in a deeper recession than I thought.
And Anyanka, I have no idea what you miss. Except for the egg part.
I was thinking the same thing! However, I do sometimes stand in front of the English food section at the grocery store sort of mesmerized at the things on the shelf I have never heard of before (spotted dick? treacle?). I’m sorry, those things just don’t figure into a southern cookbook. Of course, when I visit my in-laws and they insist on putting steamed green beans on the table and calling that tasty, I don’t understand that either. If the beans haven’t been boiled within an inch of their lives and aren’t swimming in bacon grease and onions then I don’t consider them “cooked”.
"We mustn't let our passions destroy our dreams…"
11:05 am
April 11, 2011
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Ok you guys, hold off on sending the food parcels just yet. Before I became a very small cog in government I spent ten years in a bakery working for Associated British Foods and you are probably taking the term plain loaves to mean any uncut bread, right? We have many forms of uncut bread in this country, but Maggyann is talking about something that is quintessential to Scotland. Plain bread in Scotland is rather different to anything in this country or the US and has a lot firmer texture to any bread that we would normally eat here. So, we might have water restrictions (although it’s rained for a month!), probably no petrol once the tanker drivers go on strike next week (although the price per gallon is outrageous), no interest on savings, benefit cuts to those most in need, a pay freeze for most workers, a rise in inflation, an out of touch posh boy’s government, price rises on food, travel, electricity, gas and water. A cap on pensioner’s tax allowances, a border control that’s a joke, fewer police, fewer nurses, a non-existant medical after-care system and a huge olympic bill. But we do have bread! Oh, to be in England…..
Phew, I feel so much better now. On second thoughts, keep sending the food parcels. Cake would be nice.
2:06 pm
May 7, 2010
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Neil that was a good little read, very well put!
Yes plain bread is a Scottish thing as opposed to what you get in England which we would describe as ‘pan’ loaves. Plain loaves have a very dark top crust and a lighter bottom one. Honestly there is nothing in this world as delicious as the outside slice (which is usually so thick) of a plain loaf, toasted and buttered immediately so the butter is all melted and dribbly and runs down your chin as you bite it………………………oh the agonies.
Let us show them that they are hares and foxes trying to rule over dogs and wolves - Boudica addressing the tribes Circa AD60
2:50 pm
June 7, 2011
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Mmm I miss a good old bacon butty for breakfast (I became a vegetarian) and ham, egg and chips for dinner 🙂
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6:36 pm
November 18, 2010
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F@ggots are a large pork meatball served with a thick slightly spicy gravy. They are between a golf-ball and a tennis ball in size.
Black pudding is made from pigs blood with lumps of fat mixed in. It’s similar to blood pudding but not as cinnamony as the ones sold here.
Pease pudding is yellow peas boiled until soft and then mashed with butter to make a puree and eaten with ham.
Scotch eggs are hard boiled eggs covered in saugage and bread crumbs and then either deep fried or baked in the oven.
It's always bunnies.
