Haggis and kilts? No Yanks

[Schiehallion]

Sad, but I can understand it. Some guys see wearing anything but trousers as questioning their sexuality.

Regarding Burns Supper...The Church of Scotland in London at their Burns Night do not encourage the wearing of kilts as Burns was a lowlander and was not known to be kilted. He also was living in the period when tartans and kilts were only worn in the military. (1746 -1792) as they were prohibited following Culloden.

There is an engraving of Burns dancing 'The Triumph" at a ceilidh and he wears breeches of the period

[OC Richard]

To flip it around for the USA, imagine the LA Galaxy having a Thanksgiving dinner (well that's hard to imagine but stay with me here) and a couple of foreign players refusing to partake of the turkey.

That would raise no eyebrows at all, because many people don't eat meat at all.

Years ago I took a course called "Cross-Cultural Communication" and the teacher said not to expect people from other cultures to like our dishes that blend fruit and sugar like Apple Pie... she said that in many countries that's considered disgusting. So if the foreign players skipped the traditional Apple Pie that wouldn't surprise me.

I picked out the traditional Thanksgiving dinner because it's the one meal of the year that emphasizes native foods like turkey, yams, pumpkin, and maize, things that a foreigner might not have been exposed to.

Likewise in many cultures people don't eat cheese or any other dairy products, indeed all adults being lactose intolerant. (Not that cheese plays a role in the traditonal Thankgiving Dinner but we eat other cheese-based things like pizza).

[mddock58]

I find it interesting that they put off trying haggis before the meal started. No doubt they have had Sausages, Hot Dogs, and many other "mixed ground meats" growing up in the US.

Unfortunately Haggis contents are "Overexposed and over-emphasized" by many, so that the mind decides that it is unappealing, and therefore they are not willing to try it.

If we took a good look at many of the foods we eat, we would most likely think twice before eating them.

Many of these types of foods started because the "waste not, want not" attitude of not throwing away food that could be eaten. (We throw away far too much usable food now.)

Just my thoughts...................

[starbkjrus]

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

Now, now. Everyone knows you eat a hotdog with mayonaise and onions.

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.

Just don't think about what's in it. You know, like hot dogs or lunch meat.

snip...

going to eat grits and okra. snip...

Now yer talkin'! :food-smiley-002:

[freddie]

Sad, but I can understand it. Some guys see wearing anything but trousers as questioning their sexuality.

Regarding Burns Supper...The Church of Scotland in London at their Burns Night do not encourage the wearing of kilts as Burns was a lowlander and was not known to be kilted. He also was living in the period when tartans and kilts were only worn in the military. (1746 -1792) as they were prohibited following Culloden.

There is an engraving of Burns dancing 'The Triumph" at a ceilidh and he wears breeches of the period

Burns was always proud of his Highland roots and refers a lot to the 'plaidie' in his works. I bet if he didn't wear a kilt he'd liked to have done!

[macwilkin]

Burns was always proud of his Highland roots and refers a lot to the 'plaidie' in his works. I bet if he didn't wear a kilt he'd liked to have done!

Quite true, Freddie -- his father worked on the estate of the Earl Marschial, a noted Jacobite in the '15.

T.

[Drac]

Ok, I can see you point about bragging that he won't do either. I can only hope he meant it in a crude joking manner rather than an insulting manner. It is hard to sometimes convey things in text.

Jim

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

What, no lambs Fry in this conversation? dissapointed...

[GreenDragon]

I've never tried Haggis either, but a Burns Supper would definitely be the time and place to do it.

[Lyle1]

MSNBC reports that someone in Scotland blew up DaMarcus Beasley's car. I wonder if it's related to his comments on Burns night, but blowing up a car is unacceptable whatever the reason.