I think this is a excellent ad, and I know who I would like to be compared with!
I hope this ad is on a long time just like they do with other rubbish they keep showwing.The message is simple.

Maybe I'm being picky, but when I first saw the original post, I had a vision of a fine steak, marinated in a good single malt whiskey. I've always been under the impression that "Scotch" was whiskey and people or things from Scotland were Scot or Scottish? Please correct me if this is wrong.

At the Scottish Tartans Museum in Franklin, NC, the term Scotch-Irish is used. Matt Newsome could elaborate.

In the second ad, we see that he chops wood, cooks and wears a kilt. Seems like the perfect man. :smile:

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Maybe I'm being picky, but when I first saw the original post, I had a vision of a fine steak, marinated in a good single malt whiskey. I've always been under the impression that "Scotch" was whiskey and people or things from Scotland were Scot or Scottish? Please correct me if this is wrong.

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You are indeed correct JerMc. But the vendors of Scotch Beef market their product under that name, that's why it was used. Personally, I'd have called it Scottish beef. But, what do I know?

Maybe they marinate it :wink:

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Originally Posted by JerMc

Maybe I'm being picky, but when I first saw the original post, I had a vision of a fine steak, marinated in a good single malt whiskey. I've always been under the impression that "Scotch" was whiskey and people or things from Scotland were Scot or Scottish? Please correct me if this is wrong.

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it's not really picky. it's just another one of those situations where one word is okay but the other is better. or, for the sake of the non-tie wearing crowd, correcter. your impression is the preferred.

but wait and see what you've started....

In the Tartans Museum in Franklin, NC, the term Scotch-Irish is used. I do not know whether or not it is normally used without the hyphen.

I wonder if there is the distinction between "Scottish" and "Scotch" as there is between "Canadian" and "Canada?" (Only people from Canada can be Canadian, whereas geese from Canada are called Canada geese.)

cajun scot is the librarian.

Scotch-Irish is still very common today (in my part of the world, the Missouri Ozarks, for instance), although the preferred version is Scots-Irish. But, to be fair, one of the foremost scholarly studies on this subject by James Leyburn is entitled "The Scotch-Irish".

I prefer "Scots-Irish" or even "Ulster-Scot", since the latter does a better job in describing the Scots who moved to Ulster (Northern Ireland) before immigrating to the US, Canada, etc.

Cheers, (B)

Todd