Orite…. now there are a couple of things, you just cant avoid coming across, wandering around in Glasgow. If you’re looking for cheap food, Glaswegians would point out to you a store called „Greggs„. and it really IS what you’ve been looking for!
You’re NEVER far from a „Greggs“ in Glasgow!
In these shops you find the most essential answers to your stomach’s requests. it’s all about pasties, pies and Irn Bru in there… but WHAT ARE these things?
A pastie seems to be a small baked leaf pastry thing, filled with different kinds of edables such as cheese and onion, minced meat, gravy(!)… a pie is basically the same, just with a different kind of dow around. Sure, even a vegetarian can live from Greggs… they sell salads, similar to the little round plastic boxes we know from McDonalds. Even sweets are found here… „It’s Greggs! – …and what will I have tomorrow?“
An alternative to Greggs, especially after 5 pm when Greggs closes it’s doors, are the many Chips Shops at every corner. But the things they sell are really against human nature, as the average size of a female scottish hip clearly proves… :-s These destroyers of beauty and harmony basically sell fat in different forms like battered saussages, battered haggis, battered MARS-bars, battered fish and of course… chips! but chips here are not what we know as the well-shaped tiny thin tasteful and crunchy things we are used to… NO! here chips are thick as a thumb, weak and drowned in old oil. They are served to make sure you’re full after slamming down the couple of saussages or what ever. and as if it was a secret tandency to cruelty of her’s, the lady would ask: „Salt & Vinegar, Sir?“ -“Sure! Go4it!! kill them, nasty lill bastards. chips don’t deserve a human death…!“
But let’s think of more cheerful things… in Switzerland or Germany we would now think of things that make a good life a happy life. things like Coca Cola. …The Scottish have never been a people of copiers, they’ve always be en originals. They would think of a thing called IRN-BRU. Long ago they invented this orange-coloured, sweet thing, and originally called it „Iron Brew“. But then a new law was promoted in the UK, that forbidd this name, because Iron Brew neither contains iron, nor is it brewed… and again, Scottish mentality would triumph over laws that were put on them from „down south“… they simply modified the spelling of the name, maintining of course the proper pronunciation ['ain.bru]. Irn-Bru survived and has happily ruled the country ever since.
…You MUST see the TV-Ads they do for the stuff! „It’s Phenomenal!“ Cheers!
Hold on, little Hobbits! IRN-BRU 32, der Energy Drink! „WAKEY WAKEY!!!“
DIET Irn-Bru! (…wer’s mag)
…these and more are found in youtube.com! but hey, gotta check out the guys who put MENTOS in IRN-BRU!
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