People from Dundee

[colly]

What are they called?

Dundee-ites?

Dundee-onians?

Dundee-ans?

 

[Archie_tect]

Dundonians...

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

Dunderheads

 

[Pat "5mph"]

Something to do with sheep, I heard?

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

I thought that wiz Aberdeen

 

[Pat "5mph"]

I think here in Glasgow they put all up north in the same "minestrone"

 

[Maz]

Cake-makers?

 

[colly]

Thanks. Dundonians sounds right.

What sparked the question was a news item about Dundee United. My Mrs said: I wonder if they wear an Orange kit because of the marmalade.

Which is a bit of an off the wall statement.

She said marmalade was made in huge quantities there in Dundee's heyday. Maybe it still is.

 

[Archie_tect]

Why Colly....

 

[colly]

I refer the honourable gentleman to my previous reply.

 

[redcard]

The accused


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[snorri]

wonder if they wear an Orange kit because of the marmalade.
Which is a bit of an off the wall statement.
She said marmalade was made in huge quantities there in Dundee's heyday. Maybe it still is.

They play in a tangerine strip, not orange, and are sometimes referred to as The Tangerines. Dundee was famous for the three Js, jute, jam and journalism, as anyone who received a Scottish education in the 20th century will tell you!

 

[Maz]

What are they called?

Dundee-ites?

Dundee-onians?

Dundee-ans?

Scottish.

 

[growingvegetables]

She said marmalade was made in huge quantities there in Dundee's heyday.

Definitely! Supposedly invented by one James Keillor of Dundee (as in ... Keillor's Marmalade ). The story goes a Spanish ship went down in the Firth of Tay, and these boxes of thick-skinned and bitter fruit were washed ashore. Completely inedible, so his thrifty wife boiled it and added sugar - and they made their fortune.

And you can still get/make Dundee marmalade - gorgeous stuff!

But as far as I know, there's only one company still making "proper marmalade" in the area ... and they're up the road in Arbroath.

Aye - and it's Dundonians.

 

[Oxo]

When Scotland goes independant will they be 'foreign' or 'continental'?