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Scots' Delicacy May Actually Be...English

To kilt-wearers' horror, haggis was probably invented down south

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 3, 2009 5:27 AM CDT

(Newser) – Alongside bagpipes, whiskey, and plaid kilts, there's naught so Scottish as haggis, the mash of sheep heart, liver, and lung disgusting to many and a delicacy to some. But recently a Scottish historian discovered the earliest ever reference to haggis—in an English cookbook. The... Read full story »

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