Scottish Tablet

One of the things I did with my friend over the weekend is pop into the British Lolly Shop. She bought a few novelties for her kids (she left her three kids at home with her husband) including a gob-stopper for the five-year-old, which is going to stop his gob for a very long time. My friend’s husband’s family is Scottish, so she was looking at Scottish lollies. I got lured in myself into buying a “Scottish Tablet”, because I thought it might be similar to these things a Scottish friend in Armidale used to have sent over called “Gold Bars” which were totally scrumptious.

So, when we got home I decided we should eat my Scottish Tablet. I was looking forward to this – mouth watering as I remembered Gold Bars. But seriously! Scottish people ought to be ashamed of themselves. This is what is in a Scottish Tablet: Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Full Cream Sweetened Condensed Milk, Butter, Salt, Flavouring. Think of something reminiscent of fudge, only more like just a slab of sweetened, and I mean sweetened, fat (and I thought I had a sweet tooth!), with none of the redeeming features of fudge. It's not even really flavoured! There is simply no excuse for eating anything like it! So horrid.