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From: "Jean Hudson" <>
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Haggis is... English?
Date: Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:38:52 -0400
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Yuck....people actually eat that????!!!!!

Jean
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To: Mona Andrée Rainville ; Peter JW Howell
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Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 8:35 AM
Subject: Re: [Q-R] Haggis is... English?


>From the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary:
Main Entry: hag·gis
Pronunciation: \ˈha-gəs\
Function: noun
Etymology: Middle English hagese
Date: 15th century
a traditionally Scottish dish that consists of the heart, liver, and lungs of a sheep or a calf minced with suet, onions, oatmeal, and seasonings, boiled in the stomach of the animal


In a message dated 09/13/09 08:16:12 Eastern Daylight Time, writes:
Hi Peter,

Interesting.

So then, why did the English give their dish a Scottish name....?

Cheers,

Mona

Peter JW Howell wrote:
> Yup - we English invented it, still like it, but gave it away to Scotland hundreds of years ago . . . .
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> http://forums.canadiancontent.net/history/85845-haggis-invented-english-but-hijacked.html
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> A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred years
> before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, a historian has claimed.
> Historian Catherine Brown said she found references to the dish inside a
> 1615 book called The English Hus-Wife. The title would pre-date Robert Burns'
> poem To A Haggis, which brought fame to the delicacy, by at least 171
> years. The first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747.
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> Ms. Brown reports, "It was popular in England until the middle of the 18th
> Century. Whatever happened in that period, the English decided they didn't
> like it and the Scots decided they did."
> You can read more at _http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8180791.stm_
> (http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8180791.stm) .
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