BYC Café

[Athaid]

I don't say this to be mean or anything, I'm just curious. Why do so many Americans love Scotland? Or talk about their scottish heritage?

 

[Tumbling K]

Good morning everyone. Coffee is on.

 

[MissWiggles]

Good morning. Starting an ugly stretch of more days at work than I would like to think about.

Hound is home, they put him under, cleaned the area and added a couple of stitches. No drain needed, so hopefully this will finally heal up.

Made two batches of wild blueberry jam and a batch of muffins, DH and I are hoping to pick more tonight, but it's gonna be a hot muggy one...

Have a wonderful day people.

 

[scottcaddy]

Lol someone will need to let me know what a troll is

Good Morning Everybody

A troll refers to those people unlucky enough be be born and or live under the big 'M'


Scott

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

I don't say this to be mean or anything, I'm just curious. Why do so many Americans love Scotland? Or talk about their scottish heritage?

It is all about hertiage. Americans like to have festivals where people from eat traditional food and listen to traditional music and do traditional activities, especially if it is their ancestors traditions.
But it isn't just Scottish, I imagine they must have had a large population of Scottish settlers in CO. In Nebraska there is very few Scottish, we have a great number of Irish, German, and Czech. My husband is of Czech decent, so every year we drive a couple hours and go to the States Czech festival, we eat sauerkraut dumplings, FIL eats greedy duck, and Wilber Weiners, and lots of kolachies. We listen to polkas, and just have a huge party. Lots and lots of people drink tons of beer. They even have a couple beer floats.
My father was Irish, so we do more corned beef and cabbage, they have huge festivals for that too, but I have never been.

 

[OrganicFarmWife]

Good morning everyone
Thing 1 had a great day, lots of cake and swimming.

 

[Mtn Margie]

Morning! Thanks for the coffee. I was hoping for some rain yesterday, not just a few sprinkles. Oh well.
I hope your dog mends quickly now that all of the infection is gone, Wiggles. The wild blueberry jam sounds wonderful! (Drooling over here....and it ain't the dog.....)

 

[Bantambird]

We celebrate various heritage by doing certain rituals throughout the year too. We eat lutefisk and lefsa( potato tortilla) during Christmas season, and I have my grandma's old mandolin for making sauerkraut. There is a huge Irish population here and especially in Butte where the copper mines are, and St Patrick's Day is a drunken feast day where the beer is dyed green. I hear rots that there are more Irish people here in the states than in Ireland.

 

[Athaid]

Oh, it's just not really a thing here I guess. My gran used to work in the woolen-mill or the "tartan shop", and she said they used to get a lot of Americans coming in asking about their surnames, and they would look them up on the computer to find their tartan and then buy scarves and kilts and such.
I'm half english half scottish. With Irish, Czech and Spanish/Italian ancestors. (If I went back as far as my great grand parents.) But I just see myself as British. I only ask because Americans seem to care much more about their heritage than other nationalities. For instance, ask a german what they are and they'll say german, even if their grandparents were french. But a lot of Americans will say Irish-American or something similar, even if they've never even been to Ireland.

Oh and, this isn't me trying to be rude or anything. Celebrate your heritage all you want

 

[Bunnylady]

What was the line from Stripes - ". . . our forefathers were kicked out of every decent country in the world?" One way or another, most Merkans' ancestors were displaced persons; they left the countries of their birth, but they took a little of that country with them wherever they went. Many times, they had relatives where they were heading, or settled in communities that already had a significant population of their particular ethnicity. The great American Melting Pot is more like a stew, and a lot of people like to remember who they are (or who they wish they were, lol) at least once a year. Everybody's Irish on St. Paddy's Day, right?

(And while we're talking ethnic celebrations, my parents enjoy heading up to Holland, Michigan, to celebrate my father's Dutch heritage during their Tulip Festival)