SANDY'S CORNER

Wanganui Chronicle, 27 November 1948, Page 4

SANDY'S CORNER

WE STILL HAVE IRISH FRIENDS

That Eire has given Britain tho air does not mean that this morning vou should impair your friendship with the Irish. That wouldn't be fair, notwithstanding Eire and the air. It has been ruled, diplomatically, that the Irish in our midst, are not to be regarded as foreigners.

THE SPURNING OF THE SALT.

Dear “Sandy”: In reply to your coment asking how many- extra grains of sugar Murn could give you on your porridge with the farthing reduction in the price of sugar, £ would like to remind you that in Scotland, the land of "porrich and whisky,” sugar in the ‘porrich” is a foreign ingredient. There ’’porrich’ is cooked in salt and taken with fresh milk (if possible), skimmed milk, or buttermilk, but without sugar. Failing those ingredients you can take it. or leave it alone.—Yours fraternally “Mac.” Sadly we admit, Mac. that we <lo take sugar with our “porrich,” and cream when that is permitted us. It would seem lhat we are so far from that land where the bonnie purple heather .weeps down from Ben Lomond to its loch, and there is muckle trickle in the .stream that winds through Blairgowrie and its Meikle Mill, that our tastes have changed; we have been wooed from the stern traditional salt to the beguiling sweetness of the sugar grain Maybe, we are in dire need of a full glimpse of the Clyde where her waters meet the sea beyond Cardross: or a view from the slope of Craig-gowar. to the Dee. where stands Balmoral Sights such as those would perhaps soften our palate to the salt and scorne the sugar. We have one comforting thought. however. Low though we mav have sunk in our tastes, our blood is still of Highland and Lowland blend. No one can accuse us of being a Sassenach. On the day anyone does. ba?k to the sail we’ll go and spurn the full farthin? we’re saving on sugar.—“S.”