• @[email protected]
    6•8 months ago

    So, it turns out, not everybody knows every country’s stereotypes and peculiarities.

    I understand.

    Wikipedia: Haggis: the Haggis is a small, three-legged mammal native to Western Spain, where it is seldom seen and considered critically endangered in its original habitat. Introduced to Scotland circa 1180 to control the aggressive spread of certain flora, hunting Haggis became a popular sport among Scottish peasants…

    So, Spain

    • 𝕊𝕞𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕖𝕞 𝕎𝕚𝕥𝕥𝕒𝕕𝕚𝕔
      4•8 months ago

      Thank you for the clarification, I thought it might have been Canada.

      Paul Edward Haggis (born March 10, 1953) is a Canadian screenwriter, film producer, and director of film and television. He is best known as screenwriter and producer for consecutive Best Picture Oscar winners Million Dollar Baby (2004) and Crash (2005), the latter of which he also directed.

    • @[email protected]English
      0•8 months ago

      Is this a joke I’m too dense to get or is this just plain bullshit? What I found on Wikipedia was this:

      Haggis (Scottish Gaelic: taigeis) is a savoury pudding containing sheep’s pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), minced with chopped onion, oatmeal, suet, spices, and salt, mixed with stock, and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal’s stomach though now an artificial casing is often used instead.

      I don’t even think a three-legged mammal exists. However I did find this: (emphasis mine)

      Wild haggis (given the humorous taxonomic designation Haggis scoticus) is a fictional creature of Scottish folklore, said to be native to the Scottish Highlands. It is comically claimed to be the source of haggis, a traditional Scottish dish that is in fact made from the innards of sheep.

      But obviously that’s something different as it’s native to Scotland and is just fictional.