The dance “Butterscotch and Honey” was devised by Jean Attwood, from Loughborough.

The title comes from a song, a ‘bothy ballad’, written by George Bruce Thomson to a tune attributed to Willie Kemp.
It tells what happened one harvest time when MacGinty’s pig escaped from the sty and found some toddy in the kitchen!

MacGinty's Meal and Ale

First of eight verses:

This is nae a sang o' love, nor yet a sang o’ money. faith,

It's naethin' very pitiful. it's naethin very funny.

But there's Hieland Scotch and Low-land Scotch and butterscotch and honey.

If there's nane o' them for a' there's a mixture o' the three.

And there's nae a word o' beef, brose, sowens, sauty bannocks,

Na. nor pancakes. peas. eggs. for them Wi' dainty stomachs.

But it's a' aboot a meal and ale that happened at Balmunnocks.

Aye. MacGintv's meal and ale whaur the pig gaed on the spree.

Chorus

They were howlin' in the kitchen like a Caravan o’ tinkies’

Aye, some were playing ping pong and tiddly-widdly winkies’

For up the howe and doon the howe ye never saw such jinkies ,

As MacGinty’s meal and ale whuar the pig gaed on the spree.