Haggis and kilts? No Yanks

[skauwt]

It's not their apparel that is the issue it is more about their refusal to eat the usual fare.

Even if one did not wear lederhosen at a beer festival would one drink Coke?

funny you should say that actually ...yeah i only drink dry cider or baileys

[macwilkin]

funny you should say that actually ...yeah i only drink dry cider or baileys

Burns evidently wasn't much of a whisky drinker, even though he sung its praises in a number of his poems and songs -- according to our Immortal Memory speaker this weekend (a contemporary of John Cairney), RB preferred port or claret to the water of life.

T.

[Lallans]

At least the Rangers lads were not so young and callow as to demand hot dogs with ketchup. And if I had been in attendance, I would have been happy at the prospect of more haggis to go around. There's never enough haggis.

[davedove]

At least the Rangers lads were not so young and callow as to demand hot dogs with ketchup. And if I had been in attendance, I would have been happy at the prospect of more haggis to go around. There's never enough haggis.

That's right; that would be disgusting. Everyone knows you eat mustard on hot dogs.


As far as eating the haggis, the notion of it's ingredients don't really appeal to me. And just so you know, I'm real hesitant about eating sausage as well.

I am not at all a proponent of making anyone eat anything they don't want to eat, as long as they are respectful of other people's choices. Too many people in this world are too quick to take insult as it is.

[rocscotjoe]

one earlier poster made note of the narrowing of the American diet, and that kind of waste is not sustainable. we need to think about how to make better use of the "waste" cuts that we trash. I won't belabor the little history of haggis that I know, but I will say that I have done a fair amount of International travel, and to reject someone's food is to reject their culture at some level. Most of our memories of "home" wherever that may be, have to do with meals and shared experiences. I have spent a lot of time in India, and while I am no fan of Gol Gappa/Pani Puri I have eaten it with my cohorts because not to do so would be impolite. A "no thank you" serving was taught to me as a child, and I remember being reprimanded for calling dolmade (which I now LOVE) cigars...anyway, to not even TRY the haggis seems boorish to this Yank.

[McClef]

anyway, to not even TRY the haggis seems boorish to this Yank.

They would not know if they liked it or not without trying it and they might have been pleasantly surprised.

My mother tried me out on things I found I did not like - pigs trotters, cow hearts and tripe but I least I tried them first. Haggis I loved!

[Lallans]

That's right; that would be disgusting. Everyone knows you eat mustard on hot dogs.


As far as eating the haggis, the notion of it's ingredients don't really appeal to me. And just so you know, I'm real hesitant about eating sausage as well.

I am not at all a proponent of making anyone eat anything they don't want to eat, as long as they are respectful of other people's choices. Too many people in this world are too quick to take insult as it is.

My point was that small and inexperienced children eat their hot dogs with ketchup. Switching to mustard is a sign one is approaching maturity.

[Tobus]

My point was that small and inexperienced children eat their hot dogs with ketchup. Switching to mustard is a sign one is approaching maturity.

And one knows he has reached maturity when he eats his hot dog with sauerkraut.

Man, I'm hungry now.