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[venta]

Every time, Baxters, every time.

Today's lunch was a tin of Baxters' soup, hotted up in the office microwave. But yet again, I've fallen victim to one of the classic blunders.

Highlanders broth, according to their website, is "packed full with specially selected tender cuts of beef, lamb and a variety of vegetables including pearl barley for a deliciously warm and filling meal. Perfect after a walk in the hills!"

Scotch broth, on the other hand, is "a real meal of a soup; beef, mutton, potatoes and barley combine to create a rich and warming soup."

Not much difference, you'd think. Not so! The latter is lovely, the former basically tastes brown.

I am posting this here in the hopes that articulating the above will make me remember to buy Scotch broth, not Highlanders broth, in the future. Perhaps if I form a policy of not purchasing inadequately apostrophised soup all will be well.

Comments

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Would it help mnemonically to link this to the idea that broth is one of the few things can correctly be described as Scotch, rather than Scottish or Scots?

(The others include whisky, eggs, pancakes, and arguably mist but I'm not so sure about that one. )

[venta.livejournal.com]

Definitely mist. Also bonnets, I believe.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

And Corner.

[ylla.livejournal.com]

Tape.

[drdoug.livejournal.com]

Gard, but not Guards.

I have just got the Soup Dragons reference, which prompted a groan.

[venta.livejournal.com]

One kudo to you. Have an answering groan for the G(u)ards.

[venta.livejournal.com]

And Common. Scotch Common is just around the corner from us in Ealing. I have vainly tried to convince my boyfriend that Scotches Common and Corner are different things.

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

Also hop and butter.

[venta.livejournal.com]

Hop & Butter sounds like a slightly avant garde deli.

Are Scotch hops and Scotch butter Things?

[pseudomonas.livejournal.com]

No, t'other way round...

[venta.livejournal.com]

D'oh!