Haggis tragedy

[Steve]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at yahoogroups.com, "davewitley"
<dfrankiswork at n...> wrote:
> See http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3240190.stm
> 
> Rita Skeeter adds, for the benefit of Harry Potter fans intending to 
> visit Scotland:
> 
> The last hopes of American tourists to go Haggis-hunting were today 
> dashed as the Rhann of Kutch closed his Argyllshire estate to Haggis 
> hunting, bringing to an end a centuries-old tradition. ...edited...
> 
> Erwin G. Hackenheimer III, speaking for the National Tourist 
> Federation, said: "This is a real blow for American tourists looking 
> for traditional Old-World food customs to participate in.  The 
> annual Morroccan gutting of the Cous-Cous Fish for its roe has 
> always been unappetizing, the Sienese Spaghetti Pick is frankly 
> dangerous, and El Nino has made the mass drifting of the egg sacs of 
> the Tea Bag Shark onto the Cornish coast ever more unreliable.  
> ...edited...
>
> Dave


bboy_mn:

Well, those poor tourist are more than welcome to come to Minnesota,
and we will be happy to take them out Snipe hunting; a time honored
tradition in the Mid-West. 

Failing that, they are more than welcome to come and enjoy the eelpout
fishing tournement, or stop by any Lutheran church for a delicious
butter dipped lutefisk dinner.

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For those who don't know, Snipe, while it does techincally refer to a
real bird, Snipe hunting is a northwoods joke that is played on naïve
little boys and city slickers.

Eelpout is about the ugliest creature that ever swam in water and as
far as any living human knows, are vitually inedible.

Lutefisk, on the other hand, has been extensively documented in this
forum, and can easily be searched for in the archives. 

A basic summary of lutefisk is, a vaguely white fish that has been
pickeled in poisonous Lye, and is deadly if not prepared correctly. It
also has a hideous unappetizing gelatinous appearance and generally
stinks.

Just a thought.

bboy_mn