This is bound to result in war.
As far as I am concerned it should be who to blame.
Invented by an Englishman but known as a Scottish dish? So what was it originally stuffed with - barley? Englishmen are not known for the eating of oats, as Doctor Johnson immortal definition makes clear.
Whatever it was stuffed with, once the other Englishmen tasted it, and pronounced it “offal.” They drove the originator out of England and into Scotland, feeling the meal was only fit for wild men and beasts. And I say that as a proud Scots’ descendant.
Maybe the English tricked the Scottish into eating it as their national food.
Tam O’ Shanter ping!
"The Naked Chef" Jamie Oliver ought to be flogged, drawn and quartered for making a snide remark about American culinary prowess...
"We put the veg into the roasting pay, give it some extwa virgin olive oil...
Pop it in the ov, and it'w be weally weally tasty!
It was invented by somebody who was pretty freakin’ hungry, is all I’m sayin’...
Imagine fighting over the honor of inventing haggis ...
I'm guessing the Scotts are happy about such a revelation and the Britts will try to discredit such a finding!
But it sucked so bad the English gave it to the Scots?
God sake I’m not surprised. Two sides of the same culinary coin. Fetal duck eggs anyone?
Someone has to take the blame.
GGG worthy?
THAT BE HERESY!
Address To A Haggis
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great chieftain o’ the puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy o’ a grace
As lang’s my arm.
The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
Your pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’ need,
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead.
His knife see rustic Labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready sleight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright,
Like ony ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reekin, rich!
Then, horn for horn,
they stretch an’ strive:
Deil tak the hindmost! on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve,
Are bent lyke drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive,
“Bethankit!” ‘hums.
Is there that owre his French ragout
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?
Poor devil! see him ower his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash,
His spindle shank, a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bloody flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!
But mark the Rustic, haggis fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread.
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs an’ arms, an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle.
Ye Pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
And dish them out their bill o’ fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ prayer,
Gie her a haggis!
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This does not surprise me I discovered that the Irish actually invented the bag pipe and sent one to Scotland telling them it was a MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.The Scotch responded by sending a ball and clubs to ireland and said this was GOLF and it was a game...
Proof of more abuse of the Scots by the Sassenachs.
Invented a poisonous dish and made them eat it til they liked it.
Or perhaps the Scots took to it out of perverse humor to show the Sassenachs they could eat it.
Haggis, British? Why didn't Shakespeare write a poem about it then, as Burns did later?( It was a Scottish workman's meal, they couldn't afford to buy real meat in Scotland, occasionally rustling it on the hoof, which is why the Blackwatch came into existence. That rustlinng also gave the Brits fits, by scourging the Brit beef markets).)
Its more bullshite from the colonial historians.
The Brits still haven't learned to roll their own oats.