HAGGIS GOES ABROAD.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21242, 24 January 1931, Page 15

HAGGIS GOES ABROAD.

EXILES WHO EAT TONS. BUSY SCOTTISH FACTORIES. The emigration 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, HogmanajvNew YeaT, 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 pt 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 bees putting out five to eix 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.