When I did it in my mental taster, it seemed pretty decent as a combo... although I'd also like either separately as well... :)

There are combinations that enhance both partners,
and admittedly this is not particularly one of them.
As well, there are combinations that disparage both,
and this isn't one of those either.

Just happy enough to hang out together... ;)

Like us, I suppose.

Not sure... there's other ingredients besides the fruit and the jello,
so they might clash... vs contrast...

No doubt.

Ruth says she doesn't think so... ;) It's mostly dairy and sugar, and a graham cracker crust....

Again, I'd not discourage the experiment, just
don't expect me to be a major part of it!

So perhaps we needn't pursue the question. Depends
on how bored we become with the elderly cat.

Who probably will be mostly not even in evidence, as he isn't keen on strangers.... ;)

We shall see. Critters often paradoxically trust
me, even if I'd just as soon eat them as pet them;
plus they are famous for coming out and bugging
those who are allergic to them, as I understand
some of us are, including me.

+

A Scotch-Irish who came to New England during the
migration would have been foolish at best.

I suppose so. :)

The first wave of invasion of New England was of
course Protestant, but the subsequent migration
was Irish Catholic (around the famines - why
Boston I'm not sure).

Scots-Irish is also proper in genealogical circles...

My original observation was that I have encountered
only one self-described Scotch-Irish. I've never heard
one calling him/herself Scots-Irish. But see below.

Probably would depend on the circles one was in... lots of terms show up primarily in the genealogical circles, and not so much in the general public... ;)

So in genealogical circles, you've said that
Scots-Irish is considered proper, but what's the
percentage who use that term vs. Scotch-Irish
referring to their own families?

That quoted Scotch-Irish scholar points out that
the term Scots didn't gain ascendancy among the
Scotch, er, Scots until after the main emigration,
so that the Scotch-Irish (if they self-identified
as such at all) would not have contemporaneously
called themselves Scots-Irish, a mostly
20th-century affectation to counter a 19th-century
affectation.

And when not hyphenated, it tended to be Scottish... rather than Scots

When not hyphenated, anything but Scottish in that
usage stinks to my eye.

or Scotch.... Other groups had similar affectations, of course... :) I
think of the PA Dutch or Deutsch... who were of course, German....
another branch of my heritage... ;)

One wonders about the Dootzes ... there's no
substantial difference between the Dutch and the
Deutsch, especially in that era - it was all part
of the HRE and/or the Habsburgs, as I recall, with
the Duchy of Brabant and of Muenster sharing both
the Rhineland and the Netherlands. And the language
attributed as Penn Dutch is a "Low German" that the
northwest Germans and the Netherlanders (of the
18th century and possibly even today) would find
mutually comprehensible.

And that the term is not used in my circle.

Makes sense when one thinks about it... :)

Turns out one of my less favorite professors
was Scotch-Canadian and referred to himself as
Scotch. He even wrote a book about his ancestors
and titled it by that monicker.

Did he also imbibe...?

He was a less favorite professor. I knew about the
bibulous habits of only my more favorite professors.

Piqued my curiosity, I looked that question up and
came up with little information but did find this
semi-relevancy -

Samuel Johnson, who loved to chaff James Boswell about his origins,
regularly referred to the Scotch, which was the common term in the
eighteenth century for people from Scotland. In our time, the term
has come to seem both old-fashioned and disparaging; it is mildly
offensive to use it.

But the bony Lowland Scots who settled in Ulster and then crossed
the water to America, many of them winding up in Appalachia,
called themselves Scotch-Irish, and the term remains in use in
the United States. And not just here. When John Kenneth Galbraith
came to write about his people in Canada, the title of his book
was The Scotch.

(You can call us Scots-Irish if you like. This is America.)

- John McIntyre, I'm Scotch, so pour me one, Baltimore Sun 7/29/2011

Something I'm still trying to wrap my
head around the whys and wherefores of
that cruel sensitivity.

You and me both... ;(

You should have a worse attitude towards the
world, because every apple is a bad apple.

My food dislikes have not much to do with their
health effects, and a bit of a mold allergy such
as most normal people have doesn't appear to have
anything to do with it.

OK... :)

Further, I have been known to eat things that are
supposed to be bad for me.

Black Cat (2)
cat: booze
servings: 1

1 1/2 oz Kahlua
1 1/2 oz apricot brandy
1 1/2 oz ouzo

Shake, strain into highball glass.

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