A Little bit of Country Life

Mrs Gruff has made the same decision, and she e-mailed a complaint to the producers of Country Life.

Actually I've been meaning to blog about this matter myself but seem to have forgotten to, what with all the excitement of driving to Hawkshead and buying Mrs G a brand spanking new pair of Meindl Borneo Ladies Pro boots, or whatever they're called (plus socks, wax etc).

We don't buy anything labelled Br*tish if we can avoid it, and the CoSA is only seen on our shopping if we no choice but to starve.

That last line should have read: ' ... if we have no choice ... '.

I'll have full British breakfast, please.

What, no Scottish objection? Charlie, I take it you're referring to the 'Full English Breakfast':

http://www.icons.org.uk/nom/nominations/full-english-breakfast

A full Scottish is different. Flat lorne sausages, potato scones, haggis and a bowl of oats on the side. Very nice, but different.

A full Scotch breakfast is a culinary myth. What one is served for breakfast in North Br*tain is nothing more than a tartan tinted English breakfast (Loch Fyne kippers for instance instead of the genuine article). Herrings in oatmeal are not uniquely Scotch, nor are white puddings. Lorne sausage is simply a very inferior beef burger and there is nothing Scotch about potato cakes, or oatcakes either. Haggis was once eaten throughout Northern Europe, including England. What Scots regard as uniquely theirs are nothing more than survivals from a more primitive, pre-modern European agricultural past. We moved on in England but they couldn't, without our money. A genuinely Scotch diet represents very poor fare indeed. They've a lot to thank we English for.

Haggis is an Anglo Saxon dish...... although, I think that battered Mars Bars is entirely Scots...

I have just fired off this email to Dairy Crest.

Sir/Madam
Can you please explain to me why you have now chosen to change the name of the butter you produce from English Butter to british butter.
Can I remind you that 85% of your market in the former UK is in England.
You will forgive me for thinking that the Westminster Raj has whispered in your ear.
We will forthwith no longer purchase any of your products.

consumercare@dairycrest.co.uk

I will let you know if I have a reply

Mad dogs and Britishmen go out in the mid-day sun.

and did those feet in ancient times walk upon Br*tains mountains green

"There'll always be a Britain and Britain shall be free, if Britain means as much to you as Britain means to me..."

Charlie Marks you are thirteen and I claim my Order of Lenin.

I suspect that Marks seeks to be a nationalist's bitch but hasn't the balls to say so.