Whisky Sauce on Everything!

With limited time in Edinburgh we thought a food tour would be the best way to taste local food (bring on the Haggis) and learn some history.

We started the day at the King George the 4th bar with Cullen skink and haggis. WTF is Cullen Skink, it is basically chowder with smoked fish and scallions. It originated in Cullen in a time when their industry was cows and not fish. They would take the skink (what they call a shin of beef) and made it into a beef stew. Then their industry moved to fish and they smoked fish make it last longer and then made it into a “stew”. #themoreyouknow

Haggis…ummm….Haggis sounds mother fucking disgusting. But it is basically sausage that has no casing (because you don’t eat the stomach). It was served with tatties (buttered mashed potatoes) and nips (mashed up parsnip and/or turnip with butter) and a whisky sauce. Oh my it was delightful. To me it was like Shepard’s pie in whisky, so good. Now if I saw this meat come out of the stomach casing that would have been a different story.

For dessert we went to this ice shop where we had raspberry and vanilla ice cream drizzled with a whisky sauce. They seem to put that shit on everything.

Then we went had a wee whisky tasting followed up by tea and scones with clotted cream and fresh raspberry jam. This was free from whisky (which was kinda sad).

Oh and at some point we stopped for a wee bit of fudge. It was a jam packed tour.Read more