Blinky the Shark wrote:

> Janet Baraclough wrote:
>
>> The message .net>
>> from Blinky the Shark > contains these words:
>>
>>> My buddy used to have a grilf with ties to Scotland. He visited there
>>> with her. When he asked about haggis, he was told that it was something
>>> they sold to tourists.
>>
>> It is, in the sense that we share it with favoured tourists, but it's
>> also widely eaten and enjoyed by Scots; every butcher and supermarket
>> sells it. Haggis is the central dish at annual Burns Suppers where it's
>> invariably honoured with a full performance of Robert Burns address to
>> it. If your buddy's informant didn't know about that cultural and
>> culinary tradition he was no Scot.
>
> She was from Glascow.

Afterthought: But I don't know who answered; if not her, it would've been
one of the natives. This anecdote would have been meaningless had that
answer have come from, say, a visiting Turk.


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