[jasper the rasper]

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Haggis is English, historian says

A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, an historian has claimed.

Historian Catherine Brown told the Daily Telegraph that she found references to the dish inside a 1616 book called The English Hus-Wife.

The title would pre-date Robert Burns' poem To A Haggis by 171 years.

But ex-world champion haggis maker Robert Patrick insisted: "Nobody's going to believe it."

'English dish'

Ms Brown said the book, by Gervase Markham, indicates that haggis was first eaten in England and subsequently popularised by the Scots.

She told the paper that the first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747.

Read More: http://news.bbc.co.u.../uk/8180791.stm

[roddy32]

I have never eaten that but I have seen it and heard people talk about that stuff and it is not something I would brag about.

[Earthling Series #6]

Ah! Time to post this...

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Horace

Much to his Mum and Dad's dismay
Horace ate himself one day.
He didn't stop to say his grace,
He just sat down and ate his face.
"We can't have this his Dad declared,
"If that lad's ate, he should be shared."
But even as he spoke they saw
Horace eating more and more:
First his legs and then his thighs,
His arms, his nose, his hair, his eyes...
"Stop him someone!" Mother cried
"Those eyeballs would be better fried!"
But all too late, for they were gone,
And he had started on his dong...
"Oh! foolish child!" the father mourns
"You could have deep-fried that with prawns,
Some parsley and some tartar sauce..."
But H. was on his second course:
His liver and his lights and lung,
His ears, his neck, his chin, his tongue;
"To think I raised him from the cot
And now he's going to scoff the lot!"
His Mother cried: "What shall we do?
What's left won't even make a stew..."
And as she wept, her son was seen
To eat his head, his heart, his spleen.
And there he lay: a boy no more,
Just a stomach, on the floor...
None the less, since it was his
They ate it – that's what haggis is.

http://www.heretical...a/mppoetry.html

[P.T.]

You know, I truly do try and be polite when asked to visit for dinner....but I think I'd have to decline this meal....I"m sure I'd think of a polite way but yup decline I would. lol

[jasper the rasper]

Thank you Earthling Series, that was great and I have not heard that one before.

Personally I love haggis and a large part of that is not meat, so don't be too put off by what you hear, I know there may be a couple or 3 things which are not normally eaten but it is still meat

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haggis

[Earthling Series #6]

Haggis is actually something I would be very much inclined to try if the opportunity ever arose. All the same, I've always been amused at the concept behind the Monty Python poem.

[jasper the rasper]

I usually get mine from Tesco's which is OK, but my wife usually gets it and as she does not eat it, it is good enough for her :lolo: but I would buy mine from a good butchers instead though given a choice. It worth trying though if you get a chance.

[Earthling Series #6]

Hey, we're having haggis in the Earthling household today.

[roddy32]

Yum Yum NOT

[Earthling Series #6]

I found it very Yum Yum

[Fred Flintstone]

Earthling Series #6, on 22 January 2011 - 06:22 PM, said:

I found it very Yum Yum

When I was driving the trucks years ago I practically lived on the stuff!!
Spent a lot of time in Scotland, they sell them in the fish & chip shops up there haggis in batter with chips....Extremely yummy!!

[Fred Flintstone]

Stand by to repel boarders Rod, Haggis might be heading your way soon...

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Scots government bid to overturn US haggis ban. Scottish minister want America to reverse its ban on haggis

A US government delegation has been invited to Scotland in a bid to overturn its 40-year ban on haggis.

Full story HERE

Ahh, I can see it now... all those cowboys rounding up the massive herds of haggis on the great plains...

[roddy32]

I suppose I will try it if I see it, after all, It IS food and I LOVE food.