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StewL · Post by **StewL** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:47 am

Mallog

In my house too it wasnt a nasty putdown, it was tongue in cheek and just meant to keep you grounded so you dont get "too big a heid"

wini · Post by **wini** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:03 am

Pokie Hats and 99's were bought at the Tallies.

any o them still around.

When were ye last called a "wee scunner"

wini

rye470 · Post by **rye470** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:40 am

These were a few of my dad's favourite's, some of which I still use with my kids;

His favourite drink was 'a hauf an a hauf'.

When he didn't quite believe my excuse - Dae ye think a wiz knitted?

If he didn't quite agree with you - Away, yer heids ful o mince!

Enquiring as to the well being of any of my friends or why was I in the hoose instead of 'oot galavantin' - Where's yer big/wee china the night?

And even though It's 20 years since I lived in Scotland, I still have to consciously stop myself from telling folk that - am gon fur ma messages.

Oh, and I had a '99' two weeks ago on Wednesday. At the front in Ayr to be exact, and it was GREAT. My 6 year old son thought he had died and gone to heaven. Ice Cream and Chocolate - together.

Christine.

bobbyinmelbourne · Post by **bobbyinmelbourne** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 8:54 am

"Whit's fur tea?"
A run roon the table an'a kick at the cat.....
Bobby in Melbourne

Muriel · Post by **Muriel** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 11:01 am

Anyone come across the term "a McCallum" for icecream with raspberry sauce? A great favourite of my grandfather, who was from Bridgeton & a great Clyde supporter.

Muriel

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:24 pm

Ah mind thaem Muriel,

Oh where is the chip shoap, that ah knew sae well
The wee coarner cafe where they used tae sell
Hoat peas an bray, an' McCallum's and pokes
And you knew they wurr Tallies as soon as they spoke
Do you want a -da- rasberry ower yer ice cream?

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:35 pm

Muriel wrote:Anyone come across the term "a McCallum" for icecream with raspberry sauce? A great favourite of my grandfather, who was from Bridgeton & a great Clyde supporter.

Muriel

Oh aye!

But the origin of the term can lead to quite violent debate on various DGs across the www.

Explanations range from ......

"A keen supporter of the Clyde football club in Glasgow, G. MacCallum was the instigator of the MacCallum Ice Cream. So that he could advertise his team's colours, he requested his local ice cream seller to squeeze raspberry juice over the top of his ice cream cone.
His suggestion soon caught on." .... and the traditional Clyde FC colours are red and white !!

To ......

"MACALLUM (n)

Once widely applied to an ice cream with raspberry sauce. According to the DSL, "a jocular adaptation of the surname MacCallum, probably with a play on Mak + caul(d), cold + 'em, them". It goes back at least to the 1930s, while in 1951 a character in the popular radio serial The McFlannels cracked: "Ah'm as cool as a Macallum. It's the wife that's feelin' the heat."

Your Macallum might well come in the form of...

A POKEY-HAT (n)

An ice-cream cone or cornet (from colloquial English hokey-pokey, ice-cream + hat, from its resemblance to a dunce's cap). "

To:

"My understanding of a McCallum's Ice Cream, is not a cone dipped in raspberry sauce - but of two balls of ice cream, set on a dish (usually typical '50s style chinaware) with a wafer and a moat of Raspberry Sauce surrounding the two balls.

When I was a child, if I asked for a McCallum's in the Garden's Cafe, Cosy Neuk, Grosvenor or to this day, The University Cafe that's they way it is served."...............

Take your choice

David

PS On the way to the above on the www, I came across this tale from an Australian immigration officer..........

"I must have stamped thousands of passports over the years at Melbourne Airport, but one I recall vividly was an Italian immigrant with a fair understanding of the English language. His entry visa was issued in London so this lead to a few routine questions:

I said," been living in England?"
He said, "No, Scotland."
I said,"Where in Scotland?"
He said, "A town called Largs."
I said,"Working at Nardini's were you?"
He said,"Howa you knowa that?"

I pointed to the computer screen which only I could see and tried not to laugh - didn't tell him I had local knowledge. " ...............

dww

DavidWW · Post by **DavidWW** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 1:39 pm

rye470 wrote:......... snipped .........

His favourite drink was 'a hauf an a hauf'.

.... snipped .......

Christine.

Translation, - a half-gill of whisky with the chaser of a half-pint of heavy or export (beer).

After quaffing the whisky, the glass is normally held upside down over the beer glass to recover the last few drops.

But what's a "gill"? In the Imperial unit system it's 5 fluid ounces, converting to a fraction over 141 millilitres, so that a half gill is just over 70 ml, which is one heck of a size of measure, but I suspect that it's originally linked to the Scots gill which is only about three quarters of the Imperial gill.

The standard single measure of whisky in Scotland in the 1970s used to be the 1/5th gill, but these days it's often a 1/6th which hardly wets the bottom of the glass (or whatever is now the metric equivalent). Going back before that, the standard measure used to be a 1/4 gill (there are still pubs in Glasgow that advertise that they are a "1/4 gill" pub).

Completely useless fact No.1: A "boilermaker" in Pittsburgh is the same idea.

Completely useless fact No.2: In certain pubs in Finland, it's not possible to order a 'a hauf an a hauf', unless you have a very cooperative travelling companion, as each person is only allowed one drink at a time

(at least that's how it was in the 1970s/80s).

David

Davie · Post by **Davie** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 2:49 pm

I mind well when the 1/5 of a gill got introduced in Glasgow.
Whit a rip off it wiz.
Worse noo, as we huv mls., whitever they are.
As David pointed oot, wan hauf widnae wet the boatum o’ yer gless.
I don’t know too mony pubs in the city the day that wid serve ye a quarter o’ a gill.
I think it is illegal, thanks to the EC twats in Brussels.
A bottle of whisky wis normally referred to as a five giller, when we brought back the duty free frae Spain, it wid be a Litre boatel, which we cried a seven giller.
A good barman could get 21 haufs oot a bottle.
A lot of the auld yins in ma day, wid buy a hauf and a pony.
This consisted of a hauf and a whisky glass filled with beer.
Illegal again I think.
On the brighter side.
Whisky, in comparative money terms, is a lot cheaper the day that it was in the 1930s,
http://mysongbook.de/msb/songs/t/twelvean.html

Love the "Usless facts" David.

mallog · Post by **mallog** » Sat Sep 16, 2006 3:36 pm

rye470 wrote: Oh, and I had a '99' two weeks ago on Wednesday. At the front in Ayr to be exact, and it was GREAT.
Christine.

Ye might a told me !!!! We could've had a mini-meet

btw it was my dad's favourite tipple too taken just as David said

Mallog

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