A crackling good day for cheese

A REAL cheese shop!











Also--Irn Bru, the only soda that outsells Coca Cola in Scotland.  Makes you a hardy soul, ready for anything. Although, somehow their marketing campaigners never tasted the stuff--its an awful blend of orange soda and cotton candy (quite sissy in fact). 

Also--they don't refrigerate their eggs in the grocery stores. In fact, they're often next to the bread. I know that eggs do not need to be refrigerated, but its strange to see them not.  Produce isn't readily refrigerated either.  Although, that doesn't say much, because their produce isn't that great.  Terrible fruit, except for the berries and some of the apples. 
  I checked out Edinburgh Farmer's Market this last Saturday morning.  It was smallish, but not tiny. The weird thing was that over half of the booths sold meat--pork of all kinds, aberdeen beef, game birds, ostrich and bison, etc.  Only two fruit and veg stalls, and the rest were cheeses, breads--including a German baker who had really good looking pretzels--and other various food stuffs. The did have a crisp fryer there--hot, freshly made potato chips, each made to order by one guy in a little cart.  You could get any topping or seasoning you wanted. Oh they looked so delectable! But alas, I was by myself, and I had just woken up, and didn't think I could eat a whole order myself.  I'll just have to go back.