Re: Re: Haggis and other gross food

YEah, I got roped into trying "lamb fries" in Texas because I didnt know
what they were. The sperical shape should have been a giveaway tho!

-Peg

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kitty Morrissy" <kmrsy@earthlink.net>
To: <gardenchat@hort.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 14, 2002 11:36 PM
Subject: Re: [CHAT] Re: Haggis


> Sounds similar to something I had once in Toronto.  Went to an authentic
> Greek restaurant.  Asked the waiter to suggest something, because the menu
> was written in Greek.  He suggested his favorite.  I said, "What is it?"
> He said, "Is meat".  "What kind of meat?", I asked.  "Is lamb, how you
say?
> Delicacy.  Very Good.", he says.  He'd just gotten off the boat and didn't
> have much of a grasp of the language yet.  So I ended up with tripe,
> entrails, brains, what-have-you, stuffed into a casing wrapped in cabbage
> leaves or something.  Still not knowing, though, I tried it and just about
> upchucked right there.  I made my brother-in-law trade plates with me
> because the b...d knew what I was getting (he speaks Greek) and just sat
> there being of no help at all.
>
> Kitty

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