Does Edinburgh hate Americans?

The Scotch keep most of their quaint hatred for the British.

Is that thing a Haggiss ?
You know, one of those dishes that the Scotch borrowed from the English ?

Is that thing a Haggiss ?
You know, one of those dishes that the Scotch borrowed from the English ?

dont you mean british?

It's a Scottish dish fella.

Wrong.
There is historical evidence that the Scots borrowed it from the English.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8180791.stm

A haggis recipe was published in an English book almost two hundred years before any evidence of the dish in Scotland, a historian has claimed.

Historian Catherine Brown said she found references to the dish inside a 1615 book called The English Hus-Wife.

The title would pre-date Robert Burns' poem To A Haggis, which brought fame to the delicacy, by at least 171 years.

Ms Brown said the book by Gervase Markham indicated haggis was first eaten in England and subsequently popularised by the Scots.

The first mention she could find of Scottish haggis was in 1747.

Ms Brown told the BBC the author made it quite clear haggis was enjoyed by everyone, not just Scots.

She said: "It was popular in England until the middle of the 18th Century. Whatever happened in that period, the English decided they didn't like it and the Scots decided they did.

"We had Robert Burns come along who saw in it a very practical dish using up the odds and ends and making something good out of them.

"Obviously the English turned up their noses at it and ate their roast beef, and the Scots for 350 years have been making it their own."

Her findings are due to be broadcast in a documentary on STV in Scotland.

There is abundant historical evidence that the Haggis is actually an English dish. A recipe for haggis was published in an English book almost 200 years before any evidence of the dish being cooked in Scotland. The first known written recipe for the Haggis is in the cookbook Liber Cure Cocorum dating from around 1430 in Lancashire, North-West England.

The recipe was later borrowed by the Scots.

The Scotch keep most of their quaint hatred for the British.

They'll really hate you if you call them "the Scotch."

Being American is better than being English there (though most don't hate the English either). You'll probably get a lot of questions about high school and fawning over your accent, honestly. I made the mistake once of calling it "North England" but they were cool and just teased me a bit :P

They'll really hate you if you call them "the Scotch."

I thought americans hated the scots these days...