Chapter intro

Sand eels

- the Dictionary of the Scots Language contains a quotation which seems to suggest that the Charlie Chaplin film, in which he eats his shoes, might have something to do with a Scottish recipe:

The greatest dillagate [delicacy] ava' [of all] Was sandells fried wi' bacon.

Fortunately, this is only an alternative spelling of sand eels.

Saith Scalder