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Posted by Lucille on July 11, 2009, 10:35 am
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>>> That's a cute idea - lucky cat finding it all to him/herself lol
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>>Cute chart.
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>>What exactly is haggis filled with?
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>>Lucille
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> It all hinges on the reputation that Scots have as to being mean.
> Centuries ago when people travelled if the end of the day came and you
> were nowhere, you looked for a house and knocked on the door and odds
> on, the family would shelter you, to the best of their ability, for
> the night.
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> It was Johnson got the 'mean' bit going when he travelled in Scotland.
> The Scots would provide him with what they had which was pretty mean
> fare, they themselves being impoverished by the g d English.
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> Haggis is made basically from all the bits that could not be sold
> easily. Organs, lites etc. ground up with oats added. It actually
> (when properly made) has little flavour after boiling, hence one eats
> it with neaps, turnips, for the flavour they give. And because neaps
> were very readily available. Perhaps it is really just another
> variety of sausage.
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> More than you wanted to know lol
Not really! My grandmother used every conceivable part of a food product
that she could use without poisoning anyone and used to stuff the neck of a
chicken with a concoction made of flour, stewed onions, some seasonings and
lots and lots of rendered chicken fat that could clog your arteries just by
smelling it.
I also remember reading something, somewhere or other, that the origin of
gefilte fish was that you could take a very small amount of nearly any kind
of fish, fill it with some kind of filler, maybe even oatmeal, season it and
feed a bunch of people healthy food.
Lucille
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