“Goths” in Scotland were pubs aimed at LOWERING alcohol consumption and were to be strictly unwelcoming (no billiards, no gambling, no dominoes!). Gothenburg System pubs were shareholder owned and used profits to fund local community projects.
While they used to be common across the Central Belt and Fife, there may only be one pub left that is still run with the Gothenburg System (The Dean Tavern in Newtongrange, nr. Dalkeith, which was opened in 1899).
On the Monday immediately preceding the Dalkeith Hiring-Fair in October (2nd Thursday of the month), Musselburgh celebrated a day known as Pie Monday.
To correctly celebrate Pie Monday everyone *must* have a hot mutton pie for tea, as simple as that.
It is meant to have started when a baker’s horse was lamed in Musselburgh as they were on the way to Dalkeith with a full cart of pies and something had to be done to prevent waste! They sold so well that the following year he was sold out before getting to Dalkeith and so it became a yearly tradition.
Musselburgh let it fall by the wayside and no longer celebrate hot mutton pies in October. They should sort that out!
Source
Stirling, R. McD. (1894) Inveresk Parish Lore from Pagan Times. T.C. Blair, Musselburgh. 284pp.
The 14th century chronicler Jean Froissart wrote in French. After travelling in Scotland, he invented French translations for Scottish places.
Edinburgh – HANDEBOURCH
Stirling – STRUVELIN
Roxburgh – ROSEBOURCH
Aberdeen – BREDANE
Fife – FII
Dalkeith – ALQUEST
Dundee – DONDIEU
Dumbarton – DOUBRETAGNE
Strathearn – ASTRADERN
Erskine – VERSI
Buchan – BOSQUEM
Sutherland – SURLANCKT
Moray – MORET
Jedburgh – GEDEOURS
