Thread: NATIONAL EMBLEMS

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Is it possible to eat Thistles? Surely you make some sort of horrid tea out of them...

Artichokes are a kind of thistle. Isn't the leek the Welsh emblem? Very edible.

(Edit, Oops, missed the second page).

A friend told me that some Scots still go HAGGIS hunting!
Is there actually a hunting season? Or are we talking poaching!

Originally Posted by AussiePostie

A friend told me that some Scots still go HAGGIS hunting!
Is there actually a hunting season? Or are we talking poaching!

Haggis can be caught all year round, you just need the right equipment. All you need is a large net. You find a hill where you know a haggis lives and set the huge net up around the bottom of it. Now as everybody knows a haggis will only run round the hill one way. They can go so fast though that you cant catch them.

Of course the haggis has one leg much longer than the other. The way to catch them is to wait at the top of the hill behind the heather until thehaggis comes round the corner. At that point you jump out and scare it so that it tries to run away. When it turns it will then be top heavy and will roll all the way down the hill into your net. Voila, one fresh haggis for you.

Originally Posted by sidneykidney

Haggis can be caught all year round, you just need the right equipment. All you need is a large net. You find a hill where you know a haggis lives and set the huge net up around the bottom of it. Now as everybody knows a haggis will only run round the hill one way. They can go so fast though that you cant catch them.

Of course the haggis has one leg much longer than the other. The way to catch them is to wait at the top of the hill behind the heather until thehaggis comes round the corner. At that point you jump out and scare it so that it tries to run away. When it turns it will then be top heavy and will roll all the way down the hill into your net. Voila, one fresh haggis for you.

Now you tell me. Just last year I got it my head to try to catch a haggis. I didn't know the net method so I dug a huge haggis trap at the base of a hill nearby. After three days I returned and found four stovied tatties, a colcannon and remnants of what could only have been a pair of forfar bridies (I think the stovies must have got a wee bit hungry). Not a single haggis in the hole. Now I understand why. Or perhaps it is because I'm Italian.

More circumstantial evidence Brits eat anything nasty.

Our National symbol is the beaver...

Do the Maths

You're just lucky I guess. Anyway, balk eagle taste terrible. Benjamin Franklin wanted the U.S. to adopt the wild turkey as its symbol, now that would have been good eatin'.

I'm so glad an Aussie asked this question.

Not only is it fun to "eat" ...


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Originally Posted by xman

I'm so glad an Aussie asked this question.

Not only is it fun to "eat" ...


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I think we have the exact same thing in mind. After all we're straight shavers.

The wombat eats roots and leaves too.

James.