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Originally Posted by SWTXBelle
I ate haggis in Edinburgh - I found it to be, um, surprising. Not what I would call yummy - mainly tasted like spiced oatmeal with chewy bits. Unfortunately I knew what the chewy bits were . . .
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Yep. I think it tastes sort of like spicy chopped liver, and -- get ready to groan -- I
love liver (if it's prepared properly).
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Originally Posted by cheerfulgreek
I just looked up what Haggis is. Ewwwwwwww!
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LOL. I completely understand that reaction. But it's tasty.
Actually, I think haggis is a good example of how culturally-conditioned food preferences can be. It sounds gross to an American because we typically don't eat offal (with the exception of liver, and then most of us don't eat that).* But there are other things we do eat that to someone in another culture might sound equally strange or disgusting.
[soapbox]It's also an example of not letting any part of the animal go to waste, something that can seem very foreign to contemporary American culture, which too frequently forgets that any form of meat was once an animal.[/soapbox]
* At least we don't knowingly eat offal; sometimes it's best not to ask what's in the sausage.
