[OT] why eating your own haggis is not too bad for a company based in Scotland

[Marielle Lange]

Jacque wrote.
> I'm OT now, but I want to know: Does anybody, anywhere, actually  
> *like* this stuff?

Eating Haggis abroad is a bit like eating French fries in England,  
spaghetti in a restaurant in India, couscous in an italian  
restaurant, etc.
Real haggis (prepared and eaten in Scotland)  is actually  
surprisingly edible... I would even say *nice*.... at least in the  
opinion of a foreigner living in Edinburgh ;-).

But I come from a country (Belgium) where we enjoy eating blood  
sausages (boudins noirs - http://www.hertzmann.com/articles/2002/ 
boudin/) and raw beef (steak tartare - http://www.blogjam.com/ 
2005/06/12/steak-tartare/), so don't rely on my opinion ;-). At the  
same time the joke we have on haggis in my country is : Initially, I  
thought it looked like sh*t, then I thought it smelled like sh*t. But  
then when I tasted it, I regretted it wasn't. So, maybe we are back  
to my point about opinions formed when tasting it abroad.

You will have to come and try it in Scotland ;-).

Marielle

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