"Janet Baraclough" > wrote in message
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> The message >
> from (Victor Sack) contains these words:
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>> P. G. Wodehouse
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>> I Explode the Haggis
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>> It is the same with Scotsmen and
>> haggis. They like it. It is no good trying any appeals to reason. I
>> tell you they like it.
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> See, I told you so :-)
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>> An odd thing - ironical, you might say - in connection with haggis is
>> that it is not Scottish. In an old cook book, published 1653, it is
>> specifically mentioned as an English dish called haggas or haggus,
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> He was miles out :-). Haggis was known and eaten in Scotland long
> before. The word is Scandinavian.
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> http://www.macsween.co.uk/haggis/content.asp?PageID=11
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So, it didn't necessarily originate in Scotland - it has just survived
there.
Graham