Scottish Picnic Customs: Compare and Contrast

[ali8780]

Talisker with water from the burn. Hard smoked Caithness cheese, oatcakes by Nairns if not from the kitchen, rich butter from Daviot dairy, thinly sliced roe deer tightly rolled in tubes, pickled onions, beets and little cuces, smokies, baps left over from breakfast, bite-bits of carrot and turnip and broccoli kept chilled in a flask of iced water, dollar pancakes, pinot gris, creme caramel, black tea. All slow food. Laughter and good conversation. Oh, yes, sunshine and a brisk breeze, of course. For two or four, over the Moray firth looking north.

Honestly Rex, you do paint quite a picture I think I can feel the summer breeze come straight through my computer screen.

[ThistleDown]

Honestly Rex, you do paint quite a picture I think I can feel the summer breeze come straight through my computer screen.

I hope so, Ali, because that breeze and liberally-applied SsS is what makes the picnic possible.

Hmmmm, forgot the dog. Always a dog for a perfect picnic. Oh yes, and the smokies are from Loch Awe and the deer from over-by

[Bugbear]

Honestly Rex, you do paint quite a picture I think I can feel the summer breeze come straight through my computer screen.

That's the new forum software feature, Ali, it's so the Mods can reach through the screen and smack spammers and trolls with a rolled up newspaper. Someone probably just left it open.

I suppose you could take a batch of tamales on a picnic. We used to have those all the time when I was growing up.

[ThistleDown]

I suppose you could take a batch of tamales on a picnic. We used to have those all the time when I was growing up.

Tamales? I thought this thread was about picnics in Scotland? Are you trying to hijack your own thread, Ted? We don't know tamale from tilapia, but if you want to ask about curries or kielbasa we can probably provide lots of good Scots recipes.

[ali8780]

That's the new forum software feature, Ali, it's so the Mods can reach through the screen and smack spammers and trolls with a rolled up newspaper. Someone probably just left it open.

I suppose you could take a batch of tamales on a picnic. We used to have those all the time when I was growing up.

Oh Tamales....... Ted you're making my mouth water. That's actually what got me thinking of your blue corn.

So yes, sorry Rex, but I think we should add Tamales to the picnic, and ketchup (the American kind ).

[piperdbh]

No, Ted, you cannot take tamales on a picnic. It's in the rules.

[Bugbear]

Tamales? I thought this thread was about picnics in Scotland? Are you trying to hijack your own thread, Ted? We don't know tamale from tilapia, but if you want to ask about curries or kielbasa we can probably provide lots of good Scots recipes.

By all means, ThistleDown, do describe the Scottish picnic curries and kielbasa; it is compare and contrast.

[Jack Daw]

Getting back on the topic of a picnic My Scottish Dance Group have an annual picnic in a local park/beauty spot?
We bring and share so it could be Scotch eggs, green salad, rice salad, pasta salad, sausage rolls, olives, cheese dips, cheeses grapes, fruit cake, Tablet, ...Get the idea... some home made some from M&S or the supermarket.
Most important is...... Lots of wine, red white and rose, maybe bubbly? if we are lucky and well some bring beer and cider. We have a super time and yes we even do some Scottish Country dancing!

No potato salad? Come to think of it, I've had a picnic in Scotland before. It was during our trip in 2003. We bought the grub at a grocery in Lochgilphead and drove up and had sandwiches on Dunadd. It was chilly, but wonderful. I didn't think to get potato salad even if I could have found it there.