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* The '''Scotch Egg''', a hard-boiled egg that has been de-shelled, wrapped in sausage meat, rolled in breadcrumbs, and--[[Running Gag|yes]]—deep-fried.
** Contraray to popular belief, the Scotch Egg was actually invented in Victorian London. *nods*
* '''The Swally (beer&alcohol)'''. Scotland also brews the official strongest beer in the world. It is made by the ''Brew Dog'' brewery, is 41% alcohol by volume (that is around 80 proof for those on old money) and called ''[
*** A note on Scottish beers, a weary traveller may find beers labelled as 60, 70, 80, or 90 Shilling. This due to a quirk of past Scottish licensing laws ([[The BBC]] has a good article [http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A288317 here]) Basically the lower the shilling, the weaker the beer. Lager is generally Tennents' (who used to put pictures of half naked women on their cans) and they do a lot of sponsorship of major events.
*** As with Whisky (above) there are a [[wikipedia:List of breweries in Scotland|number of microbreweries making specialist beers]]. Once again, sampling them all would be the work of a lifetime.
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