Oddly to some, Scottish cuisine is heavily influenced by the cuisine of France.
This is because both Scotland and France have England as a common historical enemy, and there was a lot of cultural diffusion between the two cultures back in the old days. I get a kick outa stuff like that, akin to the Black Irish descending from Spaniards.
PS: I went to a Scottish formal dinner thing in San Francisco last week, and wore my formal kilt outfit. Cougars hit on me in the bar! It must have been the exposed knees that made them all hot and bothered.
“As a person of Scottish descent...”
I too have Scottish blood in my ancestry (my great-great g’ma was Scottish. I lived in N. Ireland three years and spent many a weekend in Scotland. I enjoyed fresh Loch Ness salmon and haggis where we stayed in Ft William on one visit. And you are correct about the cuisine there being different from the bland English cusine. Scots also generally consider themselves Scots, and not a part of England or what is English.
False Scot, Sold your King for a Groat.