"Electrocuted to death"

[geraldthehamster]

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Richard

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Even in Scotland, they varied tremendously. The mass-produced ones were usually as you describe and quite inedible unless you were half-drunk and starving. Otoh, a good local baker could knock out some absolutely delicious ones with pastry worth eating.

[Grimly Curmudgeon]

Maevidal abarrsd!

[polygonum]

My memory is from when I was living in Ayrshire in 1962/3. A lot has likely changed in the world of the Scotch pie since then. The last one I had, bought from a butcher's shop, was 87.6% mutton fat, and had been heated on the turbo of a Saab for 20 miles or so - somewhere not too far from Aberdeen or Inverness or Wick - memory is not being more specific! It was pretty disgusting.

[Tim+]

Stop it! You're making my mouth water. ;-)

Tim

[robgraham]

Interesting then that the interwebby dictionaries source 'electrocute' as being 'electricity' + 'execute', which seems remarkably sensible, but then that leaves a gap in the language for being accidently killed by electricity - you can't really have one word which covers 'execution' and 'accidental' death. Not that the inventors of the word thought too much about it at the time, but 'electrocide' would have semantically been more correct. Rob

[John Rumm]

Or he had an electrodent perhaps?

[Mike Tomlinson]

En el artículo , robgraham escribió:

"acctrocute"

[The Natural Philosopher]

I am slightly amazed that I have the fonts to render that...

[Andy Champ]

Your name is Aelfsige, AICMFP.

As for what Grimly said... Qué?

Andy