Scottish Culture?

by **EMDEE** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 4:21 pm

Found this article while exploring today. Must say I found it slightly annoying. :evil:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/colum ... thing.html

by **ionnsaigh** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 5:01 pm

Slightly annoying, and the article was offensive to our English neighbours. I found it difficult to read through , and not because of my dyslexia - but rather anger. :evil:

by **Govangirl** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 7:17 pm

EMDEE, who needs the English to berate us when there are enough of us dafties to do it ourself? This all started when the SHOCK HORROR discovery was made that haggis wasn't Scottish. :roll:

Like all of the other Scottish things she mentions, it's not where it originated from but the cultural impact these dishes have had. Anyway, with the haggis, it's very likely that it was always a Scots dish, but because all Scots knew and loved it, they knew how to make it from time immemorial and recipes were handed down orally from generation to generation. It was the English who NEEDED a written recipe, and thus the early English records. What Scot who was worth his Haggis needed a written recipe?

by **bill** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 8:52 pm

And there was me thinking I was the only forum member to read the Mail. :lol:

by **hugh** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:12 pm

EMDEE wrote:Found this article while exploring today.

That's the spirit, Emdee. Take a walk on the wild side.

by **hugh** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:39 pm

A quick check on Wikipedia reveals that haggis is mentioned in "The Flyting Of Dunbar and Kennedie", a Scots poem dating from before 1520. Can we reclaim it then?

by **Govangirl** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 9:48 pm

I don't know what's worse to get your info from: The Mail or Wikipedia :lol:

by **EMDEE** » Tue Aug 04, 2009 10:20 pm

hugh wrote:A quick check on Wikipedia reveals that haggis is mentioned in "The Flyting Of Dunbar and Kennedie", a Scots poem dating from before 1520. Can we reclaim it then?

This particular poem also has the peculiar distinction of containing what is thought to be the first ever literary use of the four letter C-word. William Dunbar is also thought to have been the first writer to use the F word in one of his other poems, although it also appears in "The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy". :<>