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Posted By: wwh humble pie - 01/15/03 02:44 PM
So numbles became umbles, umbles beame humbles, and humbles are now called offal.
And offal is often used to mean refuse and garbage. Nof offal pie for me, please.
It sounds awful. And it is sneaked into hotdogs, and people don't know it.

Posted By: dxb Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 04:18 PM
Have you encountered andouillette? If you are seeking to eat cheaply in France you may well encounter it, but avoid it at all costs. It is a tripe sausage with added morsals of intestine. It looks grim and smells appalling. I imagine humble pie must be similar. Andouillette is not to be confused with andouille, which is OK. I have never eaten haggis, but I have my suspicions!

Posted By: Faldage Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 04:22 PM
Haggis is yummy!

Ænigma disagrees. She says, "Haggle is Yuri!"

Posted By: dxb Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 04:30 PM
"Where did you eat this haggis?", he asked warily.

Posted By: wwh Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 04:45 PM
We're all spoiled by the low price of food these days. When half of a ;man's work went into
raising his own food, he ate everything but the squeal of the pig. And called it good.

Posted By: Faldage Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 04:46 PM
At the First Unitarian Church in Ithaca.

Posted By: dxb Re: humble pie - 01/15/03 05:04 PM
Ahh. Not in Scotland then. It may have been Sassenachised (which is same as sanitised in this context!) for sale to the non-Scottish market south of the border and across the pond.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: haggis - 01/15/03 06:17 PM
I tried it even souther of the border: in São Paulo, Brazil, on a Burns' Night. They had haggis for the intrepid and roast chicken for the trepid. I had a bite of my date's haggis. Jackie, TEd, don't go there!!! That was enough for me. Even if it was doubly sanitized.

Posted By: Faldage Re: Sassenachised - 01/15/03 06:47 PM
Speaking of south of the border, I like menudo (AKA, sopa de tripas), too.

Posted By: Wordwind Post deleted by Wordwind - 01/15/03 10:11 PM
Posted By: tsuwm Re: Sassenachised - 01/15/03 11:56 PM
...haggis would be a piece of cake.

<ecch> you can have your cake, and eat it too!

Posted By: Faldage Re: Sassenachised - 01/16/03 11:02 AM
piece of cake

That'd be piece of pie, Dub'. In this case humble pie.

Posted By: AnnaStrophic Re: offal - 01/16/03 01:19 PM
And it is sneaked into hotdogs...

You know what Bismarck said, Dr. Bill.

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