The scotch cuisine is best summed up as “fried”. They even advertise it. A bacon, sausage, eggs, and griddle cakes meal is known as a “fried breakfast”. There are “chippers” everywhere. They are small stands where you can get fried fish, potatoes, something that resembles a corn dog, and even a deep fried Mars bar. Honest. They batter and deep fry candy bars. It’s wonder anyone lives past 30.

And it shows too. While you don’t see as many really obese people here as in the States, by casual observation, most everyone here is overweight. You see a very few people who are obviously genetically thin, but they are the sort that come off as too skinny. Everyone else has a gut, and I don’t mean just the guys.