Did I really try that?

About 15 or 16 years ago I went on a trip to Scot­land with my dad and step-mother which was their third suc­cess­ful home exchange with a fam­ily across the Atlantic and was my sec­ond euro­pean trip with them. My step-mother has always been big into explor­ing and try­ing new things and being that we were in Scot­land we just couldn’t be allowed to pass up the expe­ri­ence of try­ing the national dish, Hag­gis. If you have ever eaten at any local diner in the bible belt or shopped at a gro­cery store there, you might have noticed some­thing curi­ous called liv­er­mush. I would have to com­pare the taste of Hag­gis to some­thing like liv­er­mush. I have never tasted liv­er­mush but Hag­gis, I would imag­ine, is very much like it; a very grainy and crumbly meat. Ah, well you get the gist. I don’t think my step-mother fully explained to me what Hag­gis actu­ally was until after I had tried some but I remem­ber not want­ing sec­onds. Also, I think this at least one of the many rea­sons why I chose to be veg­e­tar­ian through­out high school and beyond. Slash­food has an arti­cle here about the national dish of Scot­land and while scour­ing for a pic­ture of this unique “camp­ing” food, I found this hilar­i­ous pic­ture. I won­der if veg­e­tar­i­ans actu­ally devour this know­ing they are nosh­ing on some­thing designed to mimic the very essence of food they loathe to ingest?

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