Aberdeen Butter

An English gentleman supping in a Glasgow coffee-room, ordered the waiter to remove the butter on the table and
bring him better. The servant replied that his master had no better, for that was Aberdeen butter; and the Englishman was proceeding to growl in very audible terms at Scottish butter in general. and Aberdeen butter in particular, when a gentleman at a neighbouring table, who afterwards turned out to be the Laird of Culrossie, in Aberdeeushire, addressed him, saying:

“That’s not true; Aberdeen butter is as good as ever went down your throat.“

The consequence may he imagined; a challenge was promptly given and as readily accepted, and the parties met. In the combat, which was with the small
sword, Cuirossie was beaten; but, after thanking his adversary for his life, he added:

“I’ll say yet again, that better butter than Aberdeen butter never went down the throat of an Englishman.”

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