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Can Scotland make US stomach the haggis, America’s “most wanted” - no chance of parole?

Whoever thought you could have so much fun with haggis (see posts below, and I hope you checked out the picture titles, I particularly like them - hold your curser over the photos).

Obviously not the US customs, or more specifically the US Department of Agriculture.

Haggis may be the “great chieftain o’ the puddin-race” but watch out for the “most wanted” posters hanging around your local American airport, public health enemy Number One.

Alex Salmond, Scotland’s First Minister (almost like the UK Prime Minister only not quite) is to appeal to the President of the land of the free to release the poor haggis from its 19 year incarceration (no charges have ever been proved against the poor creature).

7 comments February 14th, 2008

“Scotland’s other national drink”

In 1901 the Scottish company A. G. Barr developed a new caffeinated soft drink with a wonderfully radioactive looking orange glow, Iron Brew. Its formula remains a closely guarded secret - only two people in the company know it (the formula is kept in a bank vault) - but apparently it’s made “from iron girders”, hence the rusty colour, and great for young men who feel the need to add a bit of iron to their muscles.

In 1946, proposed new food labelling regulations (now where have we heard that before) stipulated that brand names should be ‘literally true’.  Barr’s Iron Brew did contain iron (from the girders of course) but was not brewed, so a new spelling evolved and Irn Bru was born.

7 comments January 16th, 2008