"Civilized Haggis"

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Ya know, it's interesting. Many of those things we call National or ethnic dishes are in fact "poor people food." ...

… Some of the dishes that we used to prepare for the restaurant and people paid high proces for, were originally peasant food … Its a funny old world.

Exactly! There are examples from 18th Century New England of contracts with indentured servants that specified they could not be fed lobster more than X number of times per week, lobster being considered a garbage "by-catch" rather than proper food. Likewise the more recent popularity of dishes like blackened redfish, the "blackening" essentially just being a means to spice up a cheap piece of fish to make it more palatable.

Sorry to get off topic but an interesting side topic nonetheless.