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The Edinburgh-based tabloid The Scotsman described him in a feature piece a year ago: “as Scottish as a Tunnock’s Tea Cake.”

“Actually,’’ protests Gordon McRorie, thinking back to the marshmallow-and-chocolate biscuit brand that flies off Tesco shelves across the UK, “I’ve only had one or two in my whole life. They’re something that … sort of …’’

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Then giving up, with a sigh:

“I can only imagine that elderly people eat them.”

McRorie isn’t into gumming his food or dipping it into a cuppa English Breakfast for softening purposes just yet. Not at 27.

And as for the “as Scottish as …” part, accent aside, right at the moment he feels as Canadian as, well, a Morley Callaghan novel or a draw to the button behind cover for a deuce.

“I do, for sure,’’ says the scrum-half known as ‘Mouse’. “After spending four years indulging myself in the Canadian culture. After working on a ranch my first summer, especially in a town like Calgary. That was pretty cool. And obviously the guys on the team … I’ve known a number of them a while prior to putting a (Canadian) jersey on.