Editing Hawick (section)

===Confectionery===
''Hawick balls'' or ''baws'', also known as Hills Balls<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herdman |first=John |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DoEKAQAAMAAJ&q=%22hawick+balls%22 |title=The County of Roxburgh |date=22 November 1992 |publisher=Scottish Academic Press |isbn=9780707307206 |via=Google Books}}</ref> or taffy rock bools,<ref name="auto">{{Cite book |last=Davidson |first=Alan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RL6LAwAAQBAJ&q=%22hawick+balls%22&pg=PA797 |title=The Oxford Companion to Food |date=22 January 2014 |publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=9780199677337 |via=Google Books}}</ref> are a peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet that originated in the town.<ref name="auto1">{{Cite web |date=17 September 2010 |title=Hawick Balls |url=https://food.list.co.uk/article/29506-hawick-balls/ |website=The List}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Dictionary of the Scots Language:: SND :: sndns1968 |url=https://dsl.ac.uk/entry/snd/sndns1968}}</ref> They are particularly associated with rugby commentator [[Bill McLaren]] who was known to offer them from a bag that he always carried.<ref name="auto" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Reason |first=Mark |date=23 September 2011 |title=Rugby World Cup 2011: Scotland captain Rory Lawson trying to live up to values of his grandfather Bill McLaren |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/international/scotland/8785073/Rugby-World-Cup-2011-Scotland-captain-Rory-Lawson-trying-to-live-up-to-values-of-his-grandfather-Bill-McLaren.html}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2010 |title=Final farewell for Bill McLaren |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8474324.stm}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 January 2010 |title=Bill McLaren funeral: hundreds celebrate "voice of rugby" |work=The Daily Telegraph |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/rugbyunion/7071715/Bill-McLaren-funeral-hundreds-celebrate-voice-of-rugby.html}}</ref> They are now produced in [[Greenock]].<ref name="auto1" />