So, when the Tartan Army descended on Boston, and saw the city’s statues coneless, nature took its course.
The people of Boston seemed to love it, so much so that a proposed twinning of the two cities has been marked by the gifting of a signed cone from Glasgow to the city where that birthed the American revolution.
Back home, however, the reaction from some has been less than positive.
Edinburgh’s own Duke of Wellington statue, outside Register House in the city centre, was spotted sporting fetching, orange headwear earlier this week.
Monuments to Adam Smith and David Hume on the Royal Mile have also been anointed with plastic crowns.
While the image is more closely associated with Glasgow, some capital locals say this is nothing new.
Edinburgh city centre councillor Jo Mowatt told BBC Radio Scotland’s Mornings programme that the practice made statues look “undignified”.
“I think I would much rather it stayed the other side of the M8,” she said.
“I wouldn’t tell Glasgow what they should and shouldn’t do, that’s up to them, but in the middle of where it’s happening, in Edinburgh, it’s just totally inappropriate.”
