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| ORIGINS OF HAGGIS |
| 2013-10-22 |
| h/t Instapundit A 2012 study, published in the journal Naturwissenschaften, suggested that the presence of bitter and nutritionally-poor chamomile and yarrow residue on the plaque of 50,000-year-old Neanderthal teeth hints at plants being consumed for medicinal purposes. Ayla of Mamutoi rides again But anthropologists reporting in the journal Quaternary Science Reviews have put forward a different theory. They suggest instead that the plant compounds could be from the part-digested stomach contents of hunted animals. This is a practice still carried out by many cultures, including Australian Aborigines, who eat the stomach contents of kangaroo, and Greenland Inuit who consume the stomachs of reindeer as a delicacy. |
| Posted by:g(r)omgoru |
| #9 There is a difference between Haggis and what's in that Burrito at Stop-n-Rob? One is made of bits of animal which as little as 100 years ago were craved but now are considered disgusting, wrapped in a casing which if you knew what it was you wouldn't touch it, and the other is Haggis. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2013-10-22 12:28 |
| #8 Haggis is pretty good, if it's done right. Then again, I can't eat menudo. |
| Posted by: Pappy 2013-10-22 10:30 |
| #7 There is a difference between Haggis and what's in that Burrito at Stop-n-Rob? |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-10-22 10:26 |
| #6 A throwback to an older time when we were desperate for calories in any form. Now, we just get a microwave burrito at the Stop-N-Rob. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2013-10-22 09:28 |
| #5 I tried to choke it down once in Edinburgh with a side of blood pudding. What an awful experience |
| Posted by: Beavis 2013-10-22 08:54 |
| #4 It's actually really tasty and nice. |
| Posted by: Bright Pebbles 2013-10-22 08:54 |
| #3 Little different than boiling turkey gizzard and parts for gravy at Thanksgiving. Can't find it now, but remember headcheese? Sounds worse. Hunger is a good sauce. |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2013-10-22 08:51 |
| #2 Haggis is a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and traditionally encased in the animal's stomach and simmered for approximately three hours. Most modern commercial haggis is prepared in a sausage casing rather than an actual stomach. wiki Can't say I've enjoyed this savory delicacy--probably won't. |
| Posted by: JohnQC 2013-10-22 07:54 |
| #1 Scurvy prevention almost as bad as the disease. |
| Posted by: Shipman 2013-10-22 04:44 |