OT - Marmite

Smoked would be nicer than jellied. I am sure you must be able to buy it, I can buy beautiful Alaskan Dungeness crab (far more tasty than the King Crab) online. Expensive though. Smoked would also be far easier to ship.

You can pick some up from amazon.com

Sheena, you must have been given the wrong sort of haggis! MacSween make a lovely spicy haggis and we've got four of them in the fridge ready for a Burns Night Supper on Sunday.

Lucky you - is it a modern idea ? It was never spicy when I used to have it. There was an ex pat Scot here in the 70s who made nice haggis but he is long gone unfortunately.

For some unknown reason people in NS (despite being founded by Scots) seem to go overboard on celebrating St Patricks Day and overlook Burns or St Andrew.

Yes! Delicious stuff! But how to ship it?

Did you *have* to send me this link?!

Linda

I'll look for it - but I think it was tinned?

Of course she did

No, but I thought I would !

Smoked would be easy to ship - smoked salmon is shipped all the time, no need for dry ice etc because it has been smoked.

Our first Burns Night was at the Links Hotel, Brora (Sutherland) in

Sounds interesting, I'll try it some day. I do know that peanut butter spread on the bread rather than dairy butter makes for a very nice cheese sandwich, particularly with a good strong cheddar.

Olwyn Mary in New Orleans.

My first was in Dunoon, Scotland, about 35 years ago! Gillian

Ahhh, smooth, creamy, grits. To be honest, I never had them until I went to uni in Atlanta. It's a very Southern food. But, they can have flavor. DH likes them as comfort breakfast food. I often cook them with some milk instead of water, and they're really good with all things bad for you - bacon, cheese, etc.

Marmite OTOH, yikes.

Ellice

Yeah for the PB fans. It's a favorite quick breakfast here - Peanut Butter toast. Spread thinly on a nice piece of toast, yum. I buy the organic PB of the Wegman's house brand, sometimes the Harris-Teeter one, but prefer the Wegman's. We've tried some others. For some periods of student hood with no money - we survived on PB w/Banana & honey sandwiches. Still eat them. DH is the one with the sweet tooth - so he's always happy to have a fluffer-nutter (Marshmallow fluff w/ PB).

I'm sure I've told this before, but when we first started working in France, my guys wanted some PB for quick sandwiches - we didn't leave for the big lunch break from our work site. I searched the local small grocery, the little shops, the large LeClerc (big supermarket). Finally, we bought Nutella - seeing the hazelnut pix on the front. Wrong - but made for some fine chocolate lunches. What idiots we were. Finally, in the smaller, non-chain grocery - way on a bottom shelf - I found French peanut butter. It was quite good, and we probably forced them to order more for those several months than ever before.

Ellice

White grits are made from hominy, which is a large (huge) corn kernel. Grits and gravy - very southern. As is biscuits and gravy. That sausage gravy, or red eye (ham) gravy I think historically is a food that comes from stretching limited resources. It just looks bland. But, they're not meant to be eaten just plain. Even if it's just all you're having for breakfast - normally people would have cheese grits, or grits with bacon, etc. I don't remember having grits with gravy - only biscuits with gravy.

You can also get yellow grits, but not as common.

Ellice

Sorry to take a time to respond. I was born in a Nursing Home in Waddon, 1936, and spent the first 9-10 years in Wallington.

It is strange, but Sheena's aunt and uncle live just aorund the corner. She visits them frequently, and has sent pictures of where I lived. No longer a house but maisonettes. It was there that i lived through WW2. In 1946 my Dad was appointed Borough Engineer of Uxbridge, Middlesex

What I have recently acquired from a second cousin in England is that some of my fathers forbears also lived in Surrey. That surprised me because I had thought they were from Sussex, George Henry Stripp (1847-1895) was born in Godstone, married in Godstone, and died in Edenbridge Kent.

My mother grew up in Guildford, which is where she met my father. They were married in Beddington ( close to Wallington) and their first born child is buried there.

If you want to send me your personal email, maybe we will find common interests!

Gillian

gillmurray1 at verizon dot net