A beginners' safety guide to hunting the wild Scottish haggis

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Originally published at: A beginners' safety guide to hunting the wild Scottish haggis

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oh aye

kinda fun that no one is sure where the word comes from…

haggis (n.) dish of chopped entrails, c. 1400, now chiefly Scottish, but it was common throughout England to c. 1700, of uncertain origin. Perhaps from Old French hacheiz “minced meat,” from agace “magpie,” on analogy of the odds and ends the bird collects. The other theory [Klein, Watkins, The Middle English Compendium traces it to Old English haggen “to chop,” or directly from Old Norse höggva “to hew, cut, strike, smite”

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Can confirm.

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Wild haggis? Unforgiveable! They are endangered.

I prefer my haggis sustainably farmed.

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Why go Scottish when you can go to the English originals?

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/c/cme/CookBk?type=simple&rgn=full+text&q1=hagws&submit=Go

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