[Osx-nutters] Re: Nat'l Science Teachers Reje ct Offers for "An Inconvenient Truth"

[Matt Johnston]

On 30 Nov 2006, at 19:29, Mark Smith wrote:

> Correction:
> Deep fried, yes.
> In batter, no.

There is a god...
> Though he's not far off the mark this time.
>
> He is referring to the so called "pizza supper", which is widely  
> available throughout Scotland (and Ireland, at least in Belfast and  
> Londonderry), not just in Glasgow and Edinburgh.

I've never seen it, but then there are a LOT of fast food joints here.

> So, a typical order might be:
>
> 	A special fish supper with two pickled onions (for the man of the  
> house)
> 	A (normal) fish supper (for wifey)
> 	A single chicken, a "roll and chips" and a pickled egg (for the  
> eldest unemployed male child)
> 	A haggis supper (for Senga who is 13 and is practising to become a  
> prostitute)
> 	Half a dozen 80 pence bags of chips (one for each of the remaining  
> children still living at home)
> 	Two pensioners fish suppers (half as much fish as in a full  
> supper, but roughly the same amount of chips) (for Granny and Granpa)
> 	10 Bottles of Irn Bru
> 	60 Kensitas Club (for dessert)
> 	And 12 Lottery Scratch Cards.

80p chips? You've been out of Blair's Britain for too long, mate.

Fucking quid fifty for chips at my local chippie. I say fack awf.

> There are also the mythological "Mars Bar Suppers" (deep-fried Mars  
> Bars in batter). Legend has it, that the widely claimed "we fry  
> anything" was put to the test with a chocolate bar. I've never had  
> one myself, or ever been in a chip shop that offered them and I  
> have been in hundreds of chip shops.

The local greasy spoon offers battered mars (or snickers or twix) but  
I've never seen anyone order one. I think it's just to make the  
customers feel better about their heart attack supper they have just  
ordered.

> To round thing off, I should add that salt and vinegar are  
> compulsory condiments (yes, on *all* suppers *and* singles) and  
> that Irn Bru is one of only two acceptable accompanying drinks. The  
> other is Buckfast Wine which is distilled be vengeful Monks in an  
> English Abbey and exported to Scotland to keep the dangerous madmen  
> drunk and pliable and, most importantly, north of the border.

Well, none of our chippies sell beer or wine so we are limited to the  
colas, the fantas and the mineral waters. Few progressive places  
serve Irn Bru but then that's a Scots drink and they're a fair  
weather friend if ever there was one.