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Default Haggis is ENGLISH!


"Adam Hunt" > wrote in message
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> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8180791.stm
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> Haggis is English, historian says
>
> A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred
> years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, an historian has
> claimed.


Well she's got her dates all wrong but taking that aside just because there
is written evidence of haggis in England it doesn't prove it was an English
rather than Scottish dish. In fact I suspect that they ate basically much
the same in the south of Scotland as they did in the north of England.

Allan