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| RE: Clayton Lloyd-Jones |
October 17, 2006, 11:42 pm |
by golf goddess
Dear Mr. Lloyd-Jones,
Thank you for setting off my Bore-ometer. Until your blog, I wasn't sure it was working.
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| RE: RE: Clayton Lloyd-Jones |
October 19, 2006, 1:53 pm |
by clj
That is about as original as Lanny Wadkin's colour commentary on CBS golf.
Anyone who uses the name golf goddess is probably covering up for some inadequacies such as being overweight and not being able to break 100 on the golf course.
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October 17, 2006, 5:55 pm |
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| Newbie's first steps |
October 17, 2006, 5:55 pm |
by Hal Watson
I congratulate you on your willingness to try haggis. I never cease to be amazed at people who assume that Scotland's national dish is inedible without ever having tried it. We have a traditional Hogmanay (Scots for New Years Eve)every year and serve haggis as one of the courses, and without exception people come back for more. You have hopefully opened a few minds to what most people conclude after trying it to be a great treat.
Regarding your question, haggis is essentially a sausage (Robert Burns referred to it as the "great chieftain o' the pudding race"), made with the inner parts of a sheep mixed with oatmeal, salt, pepper, and cayenne. Traditionally, it is cooked in a sheep's stomach, although since sheep's stomachs are often hard to come by, you often get "pot" haggis, which is steamed in a terrine. Some people are turned off by the notion of eating something cooked in a sheep's stomach, which always surprises me, since everytime you eat a hot dog or other sausage, you eat pig's intestines, whereas the sheep's stomach the haggis is cooked in is not eaten, but merely is the cooking vessel. Nor, quite frankly, should the idea of eating sheep innards be upsetting to anyone who eats sausage, since your typical hot dog contains not only the same sort of inner parts included in haggis, but quite a few additional ones as well. The squeamish should follow Bismarck's advice and "never ask how laws or sausage are made," the open-minded like you and me can just enjoy. Keep up the good work.
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| Scotland - God's Country |
October 17, 2006, 4:03 pm |
by Keith Sutherland
Welcome to God's own country my friend. Enjoy the golf, the people, enjoy finding out about what's going on in the world and importantly come back soon.
Keith (and exiled Scot in the States)
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