From: fjmccall@gmail.com   
      
   The Other Guy  wrote:   
      
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   >Buttered Partans ~ Small Pastry ~ Stewed Onions   
   >   
   >Partans are edible crabs, one of the few words that came into Scots (I   
   >mean into the northern form of ‘English’ that we speak) from Gaelic. We’d   
   >certainly use the word at home. Seafood is a growing component in modern   
   >Scots cuisine and widely available – for example, scallops (pictured   
   >above), plus what we would have called ‘pra’ans (prawns) sometimes   
   >referred to as Norway lobster (Nephrops) or (if posh) langoustines. And   
   >lots more. I’m getting really hungry writing this.   
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   Wasn't seafood historically a big part of at least some Scots' diets?   
   I thought coastal Scots did a fair amount of fishing and traveling in   
   small boats...   
      
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    man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore,   
    all progress depends on the unreasonable man."   
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