haggishi i'm not a regular just passing by and saw this, hope you don't mind me using this account.
a friend and i are both scottish living in england, she lowland me highland which we used to our advantage when explaining to a friend from africa what a haggis really is. it's quite a popular lie but we thought we'd give it a go. the haggis is now a sort of thick burger shaped creature, obviously highly prized by fast food restaurants. they have three legs, one longer than the other two so they can go round mountains without falling over. you get right handed ones (usually female) and left handed ones (male), so that when they're going round mountains opposite ways they meet and mating is easier. the problem with the legs is that if they fall over for some reason, they roll down the mountain (being roughly circular) and can't get up when they reach the bottom. specially trained haggis-hunters then come round collecting them (in the night because they're rare now and protected). there are albino ones (most are brown), in fact i looked after an injured albino (in my tumbledown crofting cottage etc etc) who had survived a police poaching raid near my house. my scottish friend is a biology student who i met when she came to study the haggis near my home, and she can verify all my stories through her studies.
there's more that i can't remember, and it's all completely true. oh yes.
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 16:10,
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a friend and i are both scottish living in england, she lowland me highland which we used to our advantage when explaining to a friend from africa what a haggis really is. it's quite a popular lie but we thought we'd give it a go. the haggis is now a sort of thick burger shaped creature, obviously highly prized by fast food restaurants. they have three legs, one longer than the other two so they can go round mountains without falling over. you get right handed ones (usually female) and left handed ones (male), so that when they're going round mountains opposite ways they meet and mating is easier. the problem with the legs is that if they fall over for some reason, they roll down the mountain (being roughly circular) and can't get up when they reach the bottom. specially trained haggis-hunters then come round collecting them (in the night because they're rare now and protected). there are albino ones (most are brown), in fact i looked after an injured albino (in my tumbledown crofting cottage etc etc) who had survived a police poaching raid near my house. my scottish friend is a biology student who i met when she came to study the haggis near my home, and she can verify all my stories through her studies.
there's more that i can't remember, and it's all completely true. oh yes.
I heardthat story told by a zoologist post-doc in cambridge, she was scottish and very convincing to the unwise
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Tue 25 Nov 2003, 16:17,
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The really speciallytrained haggis-hunters simply walk round the mountain, thus scaring the oncoming haggis into turning round, at which point it rolls down the hill to its ultimate demise.
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UncleLewy,
Tue 25 Nov 2003, 18:23,
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More than you ever need to know about haggis(
calgacus Non sum qualis eram bonae sub regno Cynarae,
Wed 26 Nov 2003, 11:57,
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haggisHa Ha, I did the same with Wombles as I was wandering through Wimbledon with an American Friend of mine. This resulted in her asking everyone at the dinner table whether Wombles existed or not, which everyone agreed they did. It only became apparent 2 years later when I bought a stuffed womble that they didn't !
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Wed 26 Nov 2003, 1:58,
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We had a japanese guy in my hall of residenceGreat guy, bit naive. We took him to London for the first time, when we took him on the tube we told him that the Gap was an animal that lived down there and was known for attacking people. We even got him a "mind the gap" t-shirt
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Wed 26 Nov 2003, 17:13,
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Not just me!!My mother (who also posts under this name) told me that a haggis was a creature much like a large hedgehog/porcupine which must be captured carefully in nets and kept in the bath so they do not curl up and roll away. i only worked out it wasn't true a few years ago...
similarly, my grandad convinced a junior at his work that mohair came from animals called Mo's. he told him that there were pink ones and blue ones and yellow ones, and that people were trained especially to catch them and shear them. he believed him. Muppet.
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Wed 26 Nov 2003, 22:09,
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similarly, my grandad convinced a junior at his work that mohair came from animals called Mo's. he told him that there were pink ones and blue ones and yellow ones, and that people were trained especially to catch them and shear them. he believed him. Muppet.
MarmaladeWork colleague asked on work intranet site chat page where Marmalade came from and why it's not called Jam. This was my reply.
Marmalade (pronounced Mar-mi-lard) was invented by a young Prussian man called Krochov Lade in the late eighteenth century. He fell upon this fruity concoction whilst trying to design the latest designer drink (for the time) which later became Orange squash. In his quest for a refreshing drink he tried many ways of extracting the orange's juices, many of which were failures. Apart from when he started to experiment with explosives in his extracting juice experiments. The method in question was his crate of oranges and stick of dynamite experiment. This was set up in his lab and to put it simply resulted in a mess . But from this Marmalade was born as on his desk in the lab was a half eaten snack of the cooked bread variety. Which had as a result of this experiment been coated in mashed up oranges. He tasted this snack and liked it so much Marmalade was born. The name is derived from two words 'Marma' Prussian for 'With bits' and 'Lade' being Mr. Krochov surname.
So in answer to your question it's Prussian in origin and it's not called 'Jam' as jam was invented at a later date mid nineteenth century.
Didn't hear anything back from them, surprising that.
(Marmalade (pronounced Mar-mi-lard) was invented by a young Prussian man called Krochov Lade in the late eighteenth century. He fell upon this fruity concoction whilst trying to design the latest designer drink (for the time) which later became Orange squash. In his quest for a refreshing drink he tried many ways of extracting the orange's juices, many of which were failures. Apart from when he started to experiment with explosives in his extracting juice experiments. The method in question was his crate of oranges and stick of dynamite experiment. This was set up in his lab and to put it simply resulted in a mess . But from this Marmalade was born as on his desk in the lab was a half eaten snack of the cooked bread variety. Which had as a result of this experiment been coated in mashed up oranges. He tasted this snack and liked it so much Marmalade was born. The name is derived from two words 'Marma' Prussian for 'With bits' and 'Lade' being Mr. Krochov surname.
So in answer to your question it's Prussian in origin and it's not called 'Jam' as jam was invented at a later date mid nineteenth century.
Didn't hear anything back from them, surprising that.
BindiBaji,
Thu 27 Nov 2003, 11:59,
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