HAGGIS EMIGRANTS

Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 104, 27 January 1931, Page 3

HAGGIS EMIGRANTS

Appreciated Best Abroad

LIKE ABERDEEN JOKE The emighition of the haggis was again at its peak in Scotland in November—St. Andrew's Day being at hand. The haggis emigrates because this socalled Scottish national dish is not so well appreciated in Scotland as is popularly supposed.. Like the Aberdeen joke it seems to be made principally for export. One has to leave Scotland before he becomes a regular honest-to-goodness haggis eater. But it is eaten only at certain dates—St. Andrew’s, Day, Hogmanay, New Year, with the grand finale on Burns Nicht (January 25). / Tons and tons of haggis were being dispatched every day recently to exiles in England and in the furthest ends of the earth to keep aglow—in company with "nips’’ of whisky—the spirit of Scottish patriotism. One large manufacturer of haggis and kindred cooked meats in Glasgow stated just before St. Andrew’s Day that every week for weeks past his factory had been putting out five to six tons of the “chieftain o’ the puddin’ race.” And there are many haggis factories in Glasgow, not to speak of Edinburgh, Dundee, Aberdeen and other Scottish cities.

English people, too, if the truth be known, have a hankering for haggis, for substantial orders were received from across the border. In short, the haggis industry was an exception in the general trade slump; it was flourishing.