Than the Fowll monster Glutteny
Off wame [stomach] unsasiable and gredy,
To dance he did him dres.
Him followit mony fowll drunckart [foul drunkards]
With can and collep, cop and quart, [various drinking vessels]
In surfeit and excess.
Full mony a waistles wallydrag [slovenly fellow]
With wamis unweildable did furth wag
In creishe [fat] that did incres.
(Dunbar)
There might be a very good excuse for waggling unwieldy wobbly bits in Scotland, a country of outstanding food and drink. There are the soft fruits such as Perthshire raspberries; tasty lean beef from our native Highland Cattle and succulent Aberdeen Angus steaks; rich cream and cheeses from the dairies of Ayrshire and Lanarkshire and wild salmon from the Spey, the Dee, the Tay, the Tweed and the other great salmon rivers. Arbroath Smokies, Finnan Haddock, Loch Fyne Kippers, Aberdeen Butteries, Dundee Marmalade and Forfar Bridies are just some of the stops on the gastronomic map of Scotland.
Eating
Drinking
The Scots are an abstemious people but there is a minority who occasionally find the maut abuin the meal [the malt above the meal]. The rest of us can then sit soberly by and think up words to describe people in varying degrees of drunkenness. The Herald30 Oct 1993 noted: An Englishman can be drunk but a Scot can be fou, smeekit, roarie, the worse o drink, blin fou, roarin fou, fou as a puggie, fou as a wulk, miraculous, pie-eyed, mortal, steamin, steamboats, mingin, fleein, greetin fou, stottin, soople, spuin fou, drouthie, sappie. Here are some of these and other useful words to describe drink and its undesirable outcomes in Scots.