tatties

Haggis's starchy side

Tatties is Scottish and Northern English dialect for potatoes.

The word appears in traditional dishes like tatties and neeps (potatoes and turnips, served with haggis) and in casual speech: I'll put the tatties on for dinner.

Outside Scotland, the term signals Scottish identity or affection for Scottish culture.

culinary

mash

Crushed soft mixture

bangers · haggis · shepherd's pie · fish supper · rosti · latkes · hash browns · gnocchi · pierogi · aloo gobi

nutrition

carbohydrates

Sugar-based energy compounds

  • starchyContaining complex carbohydrates
  • energyPower to do work
  • fibreSlender threadlike structure

potassium · vitamin C · filling · satiety · caloric · dietary · gluten-free · glycemic

harvest

planting

Placing seeds in earth

  • diggingRemoving earth below
  • liftingRaising something heavy
  • cropCultivated agricultural plants

field · farmer · yield · cultivation · agriculture · storage · clamp · sacks · forks · ridges

varieties

rooster

Male domestic fowl

waxy · purple

botanical

tubers

Underground plant storage organs

chitting · blight · stolons · maincrop · sets

Opposites
dialect/register

tattiespotatoes

Edible underground tubers

spuds · taters

food category

tattiesrice

Staple cereal grain

bread · neeps · caviar · truffles · foie gras

Family

tatting, tattie, tattier, tattiest, tattiness

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