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haggis
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Definition:a savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs); minced with onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach though now often in an artificial casing instead. According to the 2001 English edition of the Larousse Gastronomique: "Although its description is not immediately appealing, haggis has an excellent nutty texture and delicious savoury flavour".text from Wikipedia, licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike
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Blackadder: My mad cousin McAdder - the most dangerous man ever to wear a skirt in Europe.
Baldrick: Yeah, he come in here playing the bag-pipes, then he made a haggis, sang Auld Lang Syne and punched me in the face.
BBC. Blackadder, season 3: Duel and Duality
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An even louder shout greeted the tubs of ale and whisky that now appeared on trestles, accompanied by platters of steaming oatcakes, haggis, and meat.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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burned charcoal-black, were heaped on salvers; there was a great maggoty haggis,
J. K. Rowling. Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (1998)
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Now we are upon the article of cookery, I must own, some of their dishes are savoury, and even delicate; but I am not yet Scotchman enough to relish their singed sheep's-head and haggice,Tobias Smollett. The Expedition of Humphry Clinker (1771)
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He was tense and nervous, and his stomach was upset. Some fool had had the bad judgement to serve haggis.
Sidney Sheldon. Bloodline, p.381 (1977)
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