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Coffee towers, now we’re talking! Another one I’ve not had for ages. Not long had my Tesco delivery, just have to appease my cravings with some Mackie’s Scottish Tablet ice-cream ??

There used to be a fabulous restaurant on the 1st floor- a good menu and decently priced. They would make a fortune in London.

And now I'm starving.

Charleygirl5

volver my mistake- it is so long since I last entered that shop (if it is still there) I forgot its full name. I have not been there since 1979 and my memory is on its way out.

Oh, not at all! I just wondered if they were the same!

It's still there ? And they have a shop at the bakery as well now ?

All the chippies here sell fritters. Kalu, you are so right about a morning roll!

Volver coffee towers from Fisher and Donaldson are to die for!!! My absolute favourite cake.

volver my mistake- it is so long since I last entered that shop (if it is still there) I forgot its full name. I have not been there since 1979 and my memory is on its way out.

I remember having fritters from the chip shop. Delicious.
The morning rolls here are a choice of normal or well fired. I have never found them outside of Glasgow and surrounding areas but they have a special taste, not found in supermarkets who only sell doughy types.

Is Donaldson's the same as Fisher and Donaldson's?

We could have a whole thread about fudge doughnuts and coffee towers

'A good roll does satisfy' with a picture of a horse rolling around. Was that Donaldson's rolls?

Charleygirl, Donaldson's rolls - you take me back sixty years. We used to have those for breakfast in our hall of residence when I was a student, except on Sundays when we had big, thick oatcakes, also known as bannocks, not to be confused with Selkirk bannocks. I don't remember fritters in chip shops, but it's been a long time since I was in a Scottish chippy.

Fritters must be new- I have never heard of them served in a fish and chip shop.

Fish and chips here are now over a tenner and I was told it was because the fish came from Russia. I could be wrong but I thought we were an island surrounded by fishing ports in England as well as Scotland.

Charleygirl15 I’m in Scotland, so theoretically could have a white pudding supper any time I wanted. But on the rare occasion I do have something from a chip shop, I invariably get fish (and preferably fritters, not chips).

Black pudding is an Irish thing too. Any time my mother went over she always brought some back from a Dublin butcher. Anyone coming over from Ireland brought us some too so I quite enjoyed it as a child. Last time I had it was one New Year on Arran and it was delicious. I also remember the haggis bring piped in and addressed. It’s lovely to see these traditions.

I think for me it is white and black pudding, square sausage, tablet and rolls. As a child I lived near Cupar and Donaldsons made rolls to die for. Few bakeries in England appear to have a clue.

Charleygirl I’ve not had a white pudding supper for years, that’ll be another craving now along with a decent buttery.

We used to have something called hog's pudding in Devon, that was white

I love white pudding and instead of fish and chips, my guilty pleasure was white pudding and chips. Nobody in this neck of the woods knows what it is and I suppose it is an acquired taste.

AreWeThereYet

We always buy McSween haggis from Waitrose. Haven't seen the black pudding.

DH bought some from Tesco yesterday
I can't comment on the taste .....

Visited Scotland as a stupid sassenach with my family when young and ate raw? haggis from the butcher (well we didn’t cook it, let’s put it that way) and really enjoyed it.

Black pudding flies off the shelf where I live.

We always buy McSween haggis from Waitrose. Haven't seen the black pudding.

Macsween do a very good black pudding and haggis both of which we slice and grill. Perfect on a morning roll, brown sauce is optional.

Waitrose sells McSween black pudding but it is not available all of the time.

Apparently they are available at Aldi!

We also have our own speciality - Glamorgan sausages