Soor ploom

A Soor ploom (Scots for "sour plum") is a sharp-flavoured, round, green boiled sweet originally associated with Galashiels, Scotland.A raiding party from England were overwhelmed and killed by local men when discovered eating unripe plums.[1][2] A "childhood favourite,"[3] they are pale green and "slightly acid in flavour"."Soor Plooms" is the motto of the town Galashiels.[4] There is a Border pipe tune from 1700 called "Soor Plooms of Galashiels".
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