Comedian releases hilarious Scottish recipe videos with a north east accent
Andrew Scott, a comedian and film maker from Banff, and Chris Geddes, a musician from New Zealand, created the ScotScran series to highlight some traditional Scottish recipes as well as providing some laughs with a Scottish comedic character that wasn't stereotypically from Edinburgh or Glasgow.
Andrew's alter ego, Dodie McMuckie - who cooks in Buckie - was then born from this desire to show that it's not just the central belt that provides great comedy, as he explains: "I've always dabbled in comedy, having done stand-up and improv, and I always wanted to take it further.
The videos are already proving popular, and even Dodie's Buckie brogue, something Andrew was worried might not translate well with viewers from outside Scotland, has been well received, he said: "I do worry the accent won't work abroad, but international feedback I've had so far has been pretty positive. They get the gist if not the words."
The pair have created three videos so far with recipes for stovies, brose and oatcakes, and say they plan to make 13 in total, with Halloween, Christmas and Hogmanay specials on top of that.
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Andrew jokes that there were originally meant to be 14 episodes but that his three attempts to make Tablet went "very wrong in entirely new ways each time".
He also explained that tablet wasn't the only dish he struggled with, and that one of his home region's most famous dishes, the Buttery, gave him the most problems.
"I'm never making those again. Took absolutely bloody ages, made a hell of a floury mess, and at the end of it all you get these dense pastry discs that take 5 years off your life with every bite," he said jokingly, before adding: "And that's before you put on the extra butter."
Released every Monday, upcoming episodes will include recipes for Shortbread, Cullen Skink and Rumbledethumps.