A historical moment?

[tree_and_leaf]

There's actually an amusing thread on Comment is Free: On Haggis. Of course, it is the Guardian, so there's a debate about the ethics of haggis farming versus hunting...

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'tis the Zeitgeist, you see

[eagles-rock.livejournal.com]

Ahaha! You've missed Jamie Oliver gassing chicks live on the telly, haven't you? And Hugh Fearlessly-Eatsitall weeping as he wrings the neck of a limping bird? The telly has been an education recently; we all know the importance of bales of hay in chicken sheds, and head-count per square metre - free-range chickens are selling out. Extraordinary.

There's a woman who re-homes battery chickens; 60,000 so far, which would have been killed at the end of their first year otherwise. If she's not knighted in the next honours, there'll be a National Outcry.

[owl]

I liked the appearance of the hoary clockwise and anti-clockwise subspecies and "Stop the Bloody Wailing".

Re: 'tis the Zeitgeist, you see

[tree_and_leaf]

No, I had vaguely heard of that. Thank God the Guardian doesn't know about my plan to raise haggi in Third Quad at college....

[tree_and_leaf]

The old ones are the best! Though I've also heard the clockwise thing about sheep....

[owl]

I have personally pulled off the free-range clockwise haggis one on a mini-bus of Americans (somehow they wanted to pass on the battered haggis from the chip shop in Girvan). They also asked what a field of oilseed rape was. We told them, "Pineapples. A lot of people think that you can't grow pineapples in Scotland..."

[tree_and_leaf]

Hah! Brilliant!

[owl]

One of the boys was a brilliant improviser. (He's grown up to be the presbtyerian equivalent of a lay preacher, so I'm not sure what that says...)

I've heard the sheep version too.