(Photo: Tess Watson)
A survey of American tourists in Scotland found that 33% of visitors thought that haggis is an animal and that 23% thought that they could catch one:
The company said it had interviewed one tourist who thought the haggis was "a wild beast of the Highlands, no bigger than a grouse, which only came out at night". Another claimed it sometimes ventured into the cities, like a fox.
I regret to inform my fellow Americans that there is no such magical animal. No, that great Scottish delicacy must be painstakingly assembled. Haggis consists of the heart, liver and lungs of a sheep ground up, then boiled in the sheep’s stomach.
I’ve eaten haggis only once, but it was wonderful. No, you will not be able to merely catch and eat a haggis. There’s a lot of prep work involved. But it’s worth it.
Have you eaten haggis? On a scale from good to awesome, how was it?
-via Foodbeast
Comments (12)
Oh, man. There's another brand of veggie haggis!
http://twobites.files.wordpress.com/2008/05/vegetarian-haggis.jpg
I bought my first typewriter, a Royal Royalite 64 at California Typewriter. They were really friendly there, luckily for me its a quick bus ride from the UC Berkeley campus.
The first guy that invents a ribbon re-inker will make millions. Or go broke.
(maybe the ribbon companies will murder him)
...But that was way before "DOS" or "Windows" - Géé I'm getting óld...!
:-D
I don't remember inking typewriter ribbons. I did ink printer ribbons though. I remember dipping a fountain pen in the ink bottle and pulling the lever down to fill up the rubber bladder with ink. One brand of ink even had bottles with a small reservoir of ink near the lid so you wouldn't need to dip the pen way down into bottles that were nearly empty.
Remember when a bottle of ink and ribbons were really inexpensive? Now you almost have to mortgage the house to afford printer ink.
Then came Teletype printers but that's a story all by itself. GGG
(we all know why printers are so cheap)