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THEY are meant to be some of the UK’s brightest business brains but some of the candidates on The Apprentice deserve firing for their attitudes to Scotland.

In Wednesday’s episode, Lord Sugar’s task for the candidates will be to make gourmet food and sell it on the streets of Edinburgh.

But there’s nothing tasty about two of the English candidates, who dismiss Scotland’s heritage with stereotypical claptrap.

Beauty salon owner Jenna Whittingham, 25, lives up to her earlier claim that she is “once seen, never forgotten” by asking if Scots have their own language.

The Lancastrian admits she’s worried she won’t be able to understand anyone.

She says: “Do you think people like to speak aScottish language? Like, just a pure Scottish language?

“What if someone comes to the stand and they speak Scottish to us, will you be able to understand what they’re saying?”

Her comments horrify Scot Laura Hogg, from Glasgow, who is in a taxi with her and says: “Oh God Jenna, stop.”

The other project manager, Adam Corbally, 32 and from Derbyshire, decides to make meatballs on the cheap but sell them at sky-high prices.

He says: “Scots generally eat deep fried Mars Bars and deep fried food.”

Last night Edinburgh Southern MSP Jim Eadie said: “We get a wee bit tired of these kind of comments.

“I’m sure the good people of Edinburgh will be only too happy to show them that the diet does not conform to the stereotype – and that some of them actually speak good English.”