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mystickoolaid -> RE: Trivia D vs. s, Game-VI (5/9/2009 6:07:15 PM)
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ORIGINAL: snappykappy
Scotland claims that title today, but Wikipedia's history of haggis says the Romans were the first to create the dish and then possibly the Scandinavians.
The haggis is frequently assumed to be Scottish in origin though there is little evidence for this, and food writer Alan Davidson states that the Ancient Romans were the first people known to have made products of the haggis type.[1] A kind of primitive haggis is referred to in Homer's Odyssey, in book 20, when Odysseus is compared to "a man before a great blazing fire turning swiftly this way and that a stomach full of fat and blood, very eager to have it roasted quickly." Haggis was "born of necessity, as a way to utilize the least expensive cuts of meat and the innards as well" (Andrew Zimmern). In fact, in times of famine people would eat whatever it was that they could get their hands on, which is how all those fascinating ingredients became a part of Scottish tradition.
Wikipedia is user created/submitted, therefore not a legitimate source. It could be some jaded Scandinavian kid that wrote that.
Edited to add: a stomach full of drippings isnt true haggis. The dish includes almost ALL of the innards, including the lungs. (Which is why it is illegal in the US)
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