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Scots ask US to lift haggis ban
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| January 20, 2008
Posted on 01/20/2008 9:33:32 AM PST by Stoat
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To: sionnsar
122
posted on
01/20/2008 9:37:23 PM PST
by
SunkenCiv
(https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__________________Profile updated Wednesday, January 16, 2008)
To: Stoat
usually contains a sheeps lungs, liver and heart minced with onion,
oatmeal, suet, spices and salt mixed with stock.
It is then boiled in the animal's stomach for around three hours.
Baron von Bismark must have never heard of haggis.
Otherwise he'd have said that those who like laws, sausage and haggis
should never watch them being made!
123
posted on
01/20/2008 9:41:55 PM PST
by
VOA
To: GoforBroke
I love my Scottish heritage and I visited Scotland back in 2001. However, I did not eat Haggis there and I would not eat one here. In fact, upon returning to the states and about to clear customs, a customs officer asked us I we were bring any back!
I told him the same thing. Give me a Talisker instead.I don't think that just because you don't want to eat a haggis that this somehow makes you "less of a Scot" than those who do. It's a means of connecting with your heritage, but there are many other ways of doing so that don't involve eating haggis.
A quiet evening by the fire with a Burns collection, a nice glass of Talisker and a bonnie lass sounds like a perfectly wonderful way of asserting your Highland genes :-)
124
posted on
01/20/2008 9:47:20 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: HungarianGypsy
Thank you very much for pinging your list :-)
125
posted on
01/20/2008 9:50:03 PM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: southernnorthcarolina
The open not British Open :o)
126
posted on
01/21/2008 4:53:37 AM PST
by
snugs
((An English Cheney Chick - Big Time))
To: Stoat
To: decal
The local Scottish society makes a passable haggis - equal parts beef, lamb and liver, I think. I take it that you are in the USA or Canada and so your Society isn't allowed to use offal, or do they do it this way out of their own preference? One of the members of the pipe band Im in always brings flour tortillas to Burns Nicht. Haggis fajitas, mmmmmmmmmmm... |
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Is the 'usual' way to serve it on toast?
128
posted on
01/21/2008 5:48:43 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Bernard Marx
When I visited Edinburgh a few years ago I saw a blatant attempt to win American tourists over to haggis. A stand on the Royal Mile was selling haggis burgers. Sorry, no sale. I had a fine non-haggis lunch at the Worlds End pub instead.That's a shame. By doing that they insult Scotland as well as America.
Do things the proper way or not at all, I say! :-)
129
posted on
01/21/2008 5:51:35 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: yarddog; All
My Daughter gave me that book around a year ago. I am only about half way through it. It is tough going but it is interesing how much of the modern world owes it's roots to Scotland. I gave it to my mother and she loves it.
My ancestors on both sides are about 95% Scottish. The only two I have found who aren't are Irish. Although I love much of Scottish culture such as bagpipes, I will admit Scottish food doesn't appeal to me.
As others in this thread have mentioned, the sad fact is that a lot of traditional Scottish fare comes from a time of profound, crushing poverty and so it's going to a bit more 'sparse' than what we in the 21st century are accustomed to, but I also love much of the rest about Scotland and her fine people..
Here's a particularly stirring version of Scotland The Brave that you and others here may perhaps enjoy :-)
YouTube - Scotland the Brave
130
posted on
01/21/2008 6:04:04 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Bloody Sam Roberts
Oh that is just way too close to home.
I doon’t believe I’ve laughed much harder.
131
posted on
01/21/2008 6:06:30 AM PST
by
wita
(truthspeaks@freerepublic.com)
To: HungarianGypsy
Generally, I’ll eat anything that doesn’t eat me first, but I’ll pass on the haggis.
I printed out the article to take to the English guy that works with me. He’ll get a kick out of it. I realize this is about the Scottish, but it’s really fun to get him wound up about the French, LOL!
132
posted on
01/21/2008 6:07:37 AM PST
by
Diana in Wisconsin
(Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
To: Stoat
"Get your haggis, right here! Chopped heart and lungs boiled in a wee sheep's stomach! Tastes as good as it sounds. Good for what ails ya!"
133
posted on
01/21/2008 6:11:44 AM PST
by
dfwgator
(11+7+15=3 Heismans)
To: mad_as_he$$
No, dear God the humanity. Caving to the haggis eaters will cause the downfall of American society. The little pouches will be everywhere. Of the smell......s/If Americans continue on their baffling, breakneck tear toward Socialism and we end up with some limp-wristed Leftist pacifist in the Oval Office one day ((((shudder)))) and with the accompanying drawdown of our military forces that such an awful turn of events would bring, our British Friends may decide that the time is at hand to reverse "that bit of unpleasant business of the late 1700's " and to retake Her colonies. Although our Home Defense Forces would surely spring into action and repel such an invasion, certain beach-heads may prove tenacious, and we may be subjected to such indignities on our shores as Jellied Eel stands.
London
Brighton Pier
134
posted on
01/21/2008 6:30:36 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: dfwgator
135
posted on
01/21/2008 6:31:42 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Rudder
Thanks alot asshole. You made me spew coffee over my keyboard I was I laughed so hard!
136
posted on
01/21/2008 6:56:18 AM PST
by
Toadman
((molon labe))
To: Stoat
lol Sad but true. I have felt for sometime that we should dig up King George and take it all back and let him rule again!
137
posted on
01/21/2008 7:27:17 AM PST
by
mad_as_he$$
(Obama - all smoke not even a mirror.)
To: Toadman
Thanks alot asshole. You made me spew coffee over my keyboard I was I laughed so hard!It's the old haggis-in-the-morning "purge-effect."
138
posted on
01/21/2008 7:35:27 AM PST
by
Rudder
To: mad_as_he$$
lol Sad but true. I have felt for sometime that we should dig up King George and take it all back and let him rule again!Given a choice of King George, Mrs. Bill Clinton or B. Hussein Obama, I would have to go with King George.
In fact, I think that it would be a pretty easy call......even though he died blind, deaf and mad. Sounds better than any of the Dems at their most lucid..
Britannia Monarchs of Britain
139
posted on
01/21/2008 7:36:12 AM PST
by
Stoat
(Rice / Coulter 2012: Smart Ladies for a Strong America)
To: Brad from Tennessee; girlangler
Well, from that list I would eat the onions, spices and perhaps (if I’m in the right mood) the oatmeal.
Guess I’m just not a Haggis type girl.
140
posted on
01/21/2008 8:09:40 AM PST
by
Grammy
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