RECENTLY, my wife bought a tin of biscuits from a local supermarket because she thought it it would look neat on the kitchen worktop.
We thought they were from Scotland because of the attractive tartan decoration, the photograph of a Scottish castle and the name “Flora’s of Ryedale Scottish Collection” on the front.
After we had eaten the contents, which we both thought were excellent, we checked over the tin to see where in Scotland they were manufactured as we had never heard of a Ryedale, other than the one in North Yorkshire.
Given the name on the box we assumed the product to be associated with somewhere in Scotland.
We could not have been more wrong. Some 7,000-plus miles wrong, in fact.
On further inspection we discovered our “Scottish Collection” was from bonnie . . . Indonesia.
It is said that you cannot judge a book by its cover. The same appears to be true of a tin of biscuits.
Doug Porthouse, Ferryhill.
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