Just popped into the Clubhouse for a quick snifter and saw this and this, about the English inventing haggis. LOL. Personally speaking, my scots friends [and I genuinely mean real friends] can keep it north of the border. Give me a Yorkshire pud any day.
[This post is part of #Silly Week.]
Just because no body wrote about it doesn't mean it isn't a scottish invention.
ReplyDeleteI would keep it quiet if haggis was in my diet too:)
Angus, I had you in mind when I wrote "my scots friends".
ReplyDeleteOf course it proves nothing but it was a good story though. :)
First Golf is Belgian and now haggis is english. When will it end!
ReplyDeleteand here I thought haggi were something you hunted.... ;D
ReplyDeleteJams - one wonders.
ReplyDeleteHGF - oh, they are and tricky varmints too.
I'd be inclined to give it credence. After all, a Scots food writer is making the claim. But it's now a Scots national dish. So what? This is a tiny island. Why does it matter?
ReplyDeleteI think the trick is to bait the trap with a jigger of whisky, then hide behind a tree with a mallet...
ReplyDeleteYou don't find that a bit squishy, HGF?
ReplyDeleteAndy - welcome.
Guess what? Yorkshire pudding wasn't invented in Yorkshire either and as for Welsh rabbit.............
ReplyDeleteMs Brown should have looked a bit harder, there are English recipes for haggis from manuscripts dated 1420, sloppy research, plus the ancient greeks ate something similar....in fact it's a universal dish dating from times when 'nose to tail eating' was a necessity rather than some foodie fashion fad.
There is also the chance that we're missing a bit of old Scottish humour in Burns poem as the English and Lowlanders were referred to as 'pudden faced' by the Highlanders.
Grymm
Thanks for that correction, Anon. :)
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