Holiday coincidence
Jan. 18th, 2020 08:34 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mtbcThe Year of the Rat starts next Saturday which also happens to be the birthday of the poet Robert Burns. From Dundee we will thus pick up some celebratory foods from Matthews who describe themselves as an
(We are neither Scottish nor Asian. Those aghast at how we desecrate others' cultures by appropriating from them may not want to be reading this journal at all.)
oriental supermarketwhich intrigues me because some East Asian people find the adjective
orientaloffensive so it abides on my growing
don't call things thatlist. We shall also pick up traditional Scots fare, of course including haggis from a Perthshire butcher; I shan't be piping its journey to table given that the reed in my chanter is broken. It will be interesting to see how the various food goes together.
(We are neither Scottish nor Asian. Those aghast at how we desecrate others' cultures by appropriating from them may not want to be reading this journal at all.)
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