The Scotsman

Oh boycott

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Yet again Scottish Nationalis­ts are urging a boycott of Scottish businesses, this time because Stahly Quality Food is promoting its “Great British Haggis” with a Union Jack on the packaging. These people are the kind of “neeps” that make fools of all real Scots and don’t belong on the same plate as anyone’s haggis!

ALLAN SUTHERLAND Willow Row, Stonehaven

A Twitter comment (Letters page, 5 September) claims both haggis and whisky are unambiguou­sly Scottish. Hmm! As a student I left one digs because the “traditiona­l” offal dishes too frequently served up by my English landlady were awfully like haggis, which at the time I hated! Bushmills Irish whiskey as a licensed product, to my knowledge, predates anything similar in Scotland by at least 100 years and of course, it was use of the (Irish) Coffey Still which first enabled Scotch whisky to become universall­y acceptable – and consequent­ly profitable.

(DR) A MCCORMICK

Kirkland Road Terregles, Dumfries

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