XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: grawillers@westnet.com.au   
      
   "Westprog"  wrote in message   
   news:es97bf$etr$1@news.datemas.de...   
   >   
   > "allan connochie"  wrote in message   
   > news:45e52e34@news.greennet.net...   
   > ...   
   >> > On a pro rate population basis, I'll wager that more   
   >> > Spaniards, Italians, Portuguese, Greeks and Poles   
   >> > have attempted to learn to speak a second language   
   >> > compared to the English !   
   >   
   > Why say English here? Why not say British? I noticed the same thing a   
   > while   
   > back when there was criticism of "English" cooking, as if Welsh, Scottish   
   > or   
   > Irish cooking was significantly different.   
      
   I don't anything about Welsh or Irish cooking but Scottish cooking *is*   
   'significantly different'.   
   How could it not be given the different history, geography, flora, fauna and   
   climates of the two countries.   
      
   > Could there be an agenda here?   
      
   You tell us.   
      
   http://www.rampantscotland.com/recipes/blrecipe_index.htm   
      
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