SCOTS have been left baffled by a chef’s digs on the nation throughout a video of himself cooking up Falkirk’s weird “official” sandwich.
The TikTok-based chef, recognized solely as Massive Nibbles, created the scran as a part of a collection showcasing his tackle the “official” sandwiches of UK cities and cities.
Nevertheless, viewers had been left unimpressed by the prepare dinner’s tackle numerous features of Scottish tradition, together with panning Irn-Bru as being “made out of rust” and taking a dig on the nation’s alcohol legal guidelines.
The video opens with the chef introducing his challenge with a backhanded introduction: “I’m making the ‘official’ sandwiches of UK cities and cities. At present’s sandwich is Falkirk.
“Well-known for inventing the tender drink that’s made by mixing rust from a public youngster’s play swing with sugar and someway making it style good.”
The chef then launches right into a scathing assessment of Falkirk’s vacationer points of interest as he throws onions right into a dish alongside a gammon joint glazed with honey, mustard and marmalade.
He says: “Falkirk is attention-grabbing, there’s bought to be one thing within the water as a result of for such a boring, sleepy city they’re constructing some actually bizarre stuff.”
Referencing the Kelpies statues and the Falkirk Wheel respectively, he says: “Two large horse heads that gentle up at evening and the world’s solely rotating boat carry that appears like a decommissioned Thorpe Park experience.”
The chef then explains that he’s cooking the gammon within the glaze, while additionally pouring in a can of Irn-Bru to offer it a particular flavour as he wraps the dish in foil and locations it within the oven.
He then takes a dig at Scots’ diets saying: “After all, it wouldn’t be Scottish if there wasn’t one thing fried so for good measure, we’re whacking in some chips.”
The chef then launches a remaining few weird digs on the nation, claiming: “You already know someplace actually isn’t price going when the Romans couldn’t even be bothered to journey that far north.
“And with that, on high of Scotland’s draconian consuming legal guidelines, you possibly can’t even drink your self blissful.”
With that, the chef reveals off the completed product – with the Irn-Bru flavoured glazed gammon tucked right into a thick roll alongside the chips.
The video was posted to social media on Sunday with the caption: “You’re fortunate @IRN-BRU and Gammon is a factor as a result of I’d of (sic) by no means finished it in any other case.”
The clip has since obtained over 14,800 likes and greater than 400 feedback from baffled Scots who had been confused by the chef’s ingredient alternative.
One person stated: “Other than completely all the things being unsuitable, this video is spot on”.
One other commented: “By no means in my 35 years of dwelling in Falkirk have I seen or heard of this sandwich, we’re not likely a gammon-eating city.”
A 3rd replied: “Marmalade? Confused in Dundonian. This video is borderline offensive”
One other added: “Excuse me mate the Romans did truly journey to Falkirk, Antonine’s Wall runs straight by means of Falkirk so please take that again.”
A fifth wrote: “Bro actually hates Scotland.”
