Re: [CH] Offensive and Insulting
John Benz Fentner, Jr. (johnfentner@home.net)
Wed, 28 Oct 1998 11:27:57 -0500
Bloechl, Sharen Rund wrote:
>
> > This is from today's InfoBeat News. It is indeed a tribute
> > to my Irish heritage to know that we are secure in our claim
> > to being the world's second worst cuisine. :)
>
> Hey - there's nothing wrong with Irish cooking that a little butter,
> salt & pepper on the potato and some hot peppers in the boiled dinner can't
> fix. . . B-)
>
> btw - except for the pork mush that's sometimes served as sausages,
> I love [most] Irish cooking - at least it's not haggish (or however the
> word's spelled)
Heh...Haggis actually...a dish roughly equivalent to
wrapping the bilges of a tramp steamer in a pig's bladder.
My wife, whose mother was born in Scotland, claims it's
actually edible. I am periodically forced to remind her that
Scots are just transplated Gaels who can't make Whisky
without getting smoke in it. Her reply to the effect that
the National Tree of Ireland is the potato vine is obviously
just sour grapes. :)
JB
Who once answered the Trivial Pursuit question about the
home country of the Paddy Bird as "Ireland"
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