HQ is it really acceptable ....

I am going to buy some Sottish shortbread. That'll do me.

(But I hope I don't look like that when I eat it.)

We've got whisky
And a tin of shortbread from Christmas.

I knew I should have bought the steak pie from M&S and not the more healthy chicken.

How can you have not eaten shortbread from Christmas?!

Are you sure steak pie is Scottish?

Because this is a second tin which I was going to give to the family but they are too health conscious.

Yes, my Scottish friend assured me that steak pie was what they ate on New Year's Eve to soak up all the whisky.
She hated it.

It could have been New Year's Day.

This thread has nothing to do with the original post now.

I have been re watching Two Doors Down, they had steak pie New Years Day, said it was tradition.

In my previous life with a National Charitable Organisation I was the only female at a Burns Night Supper.

After my short speech I cannot remember a thing? Apparently I kept up with the men in the Whisky drinking, I think I felt human about 48 hours later

Yep - always steak pie on New Years Day. I make mine from scratch and the DCs insist on there being Wee Willie Winky sausages in there too ( they’re the mini skinless ones)

Love it when threads meander.
This started as a grump of a thread and now everyone is chatting about Steak Pie, Shortbread and Whisky!

Just to say that it was the whisky that my friend hated, not the steak pie.
She made a great steak pie.

A question for the Scottish posters:

At a Burns Supper once someone advised me that a tot of whisky should be poured on to the haggis on your plate.
Is this true or fake news?

This started as a grump of a thread and now everyone is chatting about Steak Pie, Shortbread and Whisky

Far more interesting and entertaining it is too

And a negative thread has been turned into a positive one.

I’ve not heard of that Callistemon but I think the rules are very flexible when it comes to whisky and Burns suppers

For years I cooked steak pie for New Year's Day dinner. I had no idea I was keeping up with a tradition! I must be psychic, or something.

" Wee Willie Winky sausages"

Ooh!

(I have no idea why I find that funny)

Oh, yes I do!

Much more interesting and relevant than the first part of the thread. I have a kind of yearning for Cranachan......... haven't given it a thought in years.

DH is on a low fat diet so maybe I'll sprinkle some toasted oat flakes over his raspberry yoghurt.