Understanding Athelind's Argot: "The Scottish Restaurant"/"That Scottish Place"

[athelind]

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H.G. Wells: This is delicious, far superior to that Scottish place I breakfasted.
Amy Robbins: Scottish?
H.G. Wells: MacDougall's.
-- Time After Time (1979)

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[jimrob.livejournal.com]

I laughed. Thank you.

Most of your argot terms I keep wanting to adopt as my own, but the appropriate conversations never seem to arise...