Haggis ‘was invented by the English’

[Vargtand]

How about black pudding? Ever had that?

Black pudding, that is the same as blood pudding right? it is simply delicious with lingonberry jams

[Treffie]

Oh dear, haggis. I can't look at that stuff without gagging!

Philistine!

[Graham]

we invented football mmm black pudding and white pudding, love both

[Skandi]

Haggis mmm if it's a nice one without too much pepper. Black pudding is even better and the fruit pudding that you get in Scotland is one of the nicest things ever!

[Beorn]

we invented football

If by "inventing" you meaning "we invented having our arses handed to us by England consistently", then yes, you did invent it.

[Osweo]

I grew up eating English food, and black pudding was something I wouldn't ever touch. I probably would've reported my own mother for child abuse had she forced me to consume it!

If you hadn't already given up the User Name 'Salford', I would DEMAND you be stripped of it for that BLASPHEMY! Call yourself a Lancastrian, HA!

Mind you, what should we expect? From the wrong bank of the Irwell, and all...




But, heehee, poor Scotch gits, I almost feel sorry for em... I suppose one important thing we can still argue over is the name, though. What's the origin? Did a subject of the English or Scottish crown first utter 'haggas' or whatever in relation to such a tasty dish, or what?

http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?...earchmode=none

haggis
c.1420, now chiefly Scot., but common in M.E., perhaps from O.Fr. agace "magpie," on analogy of the odds and ends the bird collects. The other theory traces it to O.E. haggen "to chop" (see hack (1)).

Hoho, doesn't look TOO promising for the Scotch side there!!!

[Germanicus]

Having a Victorian English mother has many draw backs, one for example is she will not eat foreign food, Spag Bols..curry...lasagna...anything that is not English she will not eat .......period.
She visited us some months ago and i offered to make lunch, she asked if she could have chips with something, to which i said how about faggots peas and chips, you like that don't you mumsie?
After looking in the freezer i located a haggis, now i know my mum would never eat it i had to tell a porkie (lie)
Anyway i duly put it in the microwave, oven chips in the oven and put my feet up for 20 mins....after throwing the peas in for 3 mins i served up.
Mum looked up from her plate and said this is a strange Faggot, to which i said, "yeah mum it is from the butcher down by the market he makes his own"
then she ate it no further questions, Mrs Germanicus gave me a shake of the head mum did not see.

[Beorn]

Quoting a link: c.1420, now chiefly Scot., but common in M.E., perhaps from O.Fr. agace "magpie," on analogy of the odds and ends the bird collects. The other theory traces it to O.E. haggen "to chop" (see hack (1)).

Even further, the word derives from Old Icelandic haggw (höggva in modern Icelandic), meaning 'to hew' or strike with a sharp weapon, relating to the chopped-up contents of the dish.

I was reading elsewhere that the production and consumption of haggis is written about in Homers 'Odysseus' and even in Roman records.

As I said on Stirpes, it is certainly a dish that both the English and Scottish can rightfully claim.

[007]

, oven chips in the oven and put my feet up for 20 mins

You fed your mum oven chips!? You should be horsewhipped.

[Albion]

The French are going to love this......