{"id":2465,"date":"2006-03-18T19:34:18","date_gmt":"2006-03-19T00:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/a-wee-corner-of-scotland-at-ellesmere-mccowan\/"},"modified":"2006-03-18T19:34:18","modified_gmt":"2006-03-19T00:34:18","slug":"a-wee-corner-of-scotland-at-ellesmere-mccowan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2006\/03\/18\/a-wee-corner-of-scotland-at-ellesmere-mccowan\/","title":{"rendered":"a wee corner of Scotland at Ellesmere &#038; McCowan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity: took a wrong turn coming out of the<br \/>\nfederal building, and found ourselves in Scottish culinary heaven (which is not an oxymoron, I assure you). At the corner of Ellesmere &#038; McCowan is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotfood.org\/shops\/butnben.htm\">The But &#8216;n&#8217; Ben Butchers<\/a>; they sell all sort of quality Scottish foods. So far, we&#8217;ve sampled and can approve their butcher&#8217;s pies, plain bread and empire biscuits. They&#8217;ve also got a supply of UK Heinz Beans, which knock the gummy North American beans into a cocked hat.<br \/>\nNext door but one is St Andrews Fish &#038; Chips. They&#8217;re amazing. I think the chips (hand cut, of course) are deep fried in some unhealthy, but tasty, animal byproduct. And they have Irn Bru, too &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Serendipity: took a wrong turn coming out of the federal building, and found ourselves in Scottish culinary heaven (which is not an oxymoron, I assure you). At the corner of Ellesmere &#038; McCowan is The But &#8216;n&#8217; Ben Butchers; they sell all sort of quality Scottish foods. So far, we&#8217;ve sampled and can approve their [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[1044,1401,946,1089,614,951,1367,381,548,2901,143,943,650,150,1345,1199,168,217,879,582],"class_list":["post-2465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-amp","tag-beans","tag-cc","tag-chips","tag-course","tag-eep","tag-elves","tag-fed","tag-federal","tag-fish","tag-food","tag-gum","tag-ink","tag-led","tag-ren","tag-scotland","tag-scottish","tag-uk","tag-wrong","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-DL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}