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===============================================<br></div><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">From: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color: rgb(0, 104, 28);">Tom Mc Rae</span> <span class="go"><<a href="mailto:thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com">thomas.mcrae@bigpond.com</a>></span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject: </span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;" class="gI">Lowlands-l Delectables<br><br></span><span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;"><span style="color: rgb(91, 16, 148);">Paul Finlow-Bates</span>Â <span><<a href="mailto:wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk" target="_blank">wolf_thunder51@yahoo.co.uk</a>> wrote.</span></span><br style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<span style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Subject:Â LL-L "Delectables" 2010.02.01 (08) [EN]<br><br></span><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">> Absolutely brilliant Tom!</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">
<br></div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">Even the Scots do not realise that chips originated in Scotland.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">After Sir Walter Raleigh brought the potato to England's shores Southern barbarians ate them raw and therefore rejected them</div>
<div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">They
therefore sold all their stockpile to Scotland where my ingenious
ancestors quickly found them to be delicious when cut into small sticks
and deep fried in lard. The English would not reveal the source and as
the things soon went off the Scots crammed the raw potato sticks into
brick shaped moulds and froze them for future use. These could be
stockpiled for many years and used when</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">there
was a dearth of potatoes coming from England. When that happened the
contents of some moulds were defrosted and the sticks deep fried when
it was discovered that those thus preserved had superior flavour and
crispness to the fresh variety.</div><div style="font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif;">There Oh Best Beloved you have the origin of the laudatiory phrase "A chip oif the old block".</div><div>
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Best Regards<br>Tom Mc Rae<br>Brisbane Australia<br>An honest man's the noblest work of God (Robert Burns)<br></div></span></span></div><br><br><br>
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