XPost: soc.culture.welsh, soc.culture.cornish, soc.culture.irish   
   XPost: soc.culture.scottish   
   From: micheil@shaw.ca   
      
   On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 09:09:08 +1000, "Adam Whyte-Settlar"   
    wrote:   
      
   >   
   >"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.   
      
   Boy, talk about insular! Scottish cooking is unique to Scotland.   
      
   >   
   >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   
      
   And that's just for starters!   
   >   
      
      
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