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Article: All hail the haggis!(The Home Forum)
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- The Christian Science Monitor
- Article date:
- January 21, 2000
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A gentleman claiming Pennsylvania Dutch connections writes to ask if I am familiar with the famous German hog's-belly feast from which the Scottish haggis - he brashly avers - is derived. It has been peaceful along the border for some time, and few have been the occasions to summon the clansmen, and I hasten to settle this brooding battle before anybody in Scotland gets excited.
I shall start by reminding this gentleman that Queen Elizabeth I of England was never a queen to the Scots, and accordingly Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain is automatically discounted north of the border when "God Save the Queen" is offered.
The haggis is the pluck of the ...
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