>>>One tasty treat over here is called chorizo (chore-ee-zo). It's a spicy Mexican blend of pig internals and spices stuffed into a casing. It is really good with eggs. Yumm. You just have to not think about the contents as you eat. <g>
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>>That sounds a LOT like haggis, except the Scots make it from sheep and like to stuff it all into a pigs stomach with the veins still showing on the outside, lead it into the dining room preceeded my a man playing the bagpipes (which sounds a lot like the sheep having its stomach removed, come to think of it) and then address a poem to it, follwed by stabbing it with a short dagger (which is probably burnt afterwards, just in case). For some reason it is then eaten. No doubt this explains a lot about the Scottish accent: you'd speak like that if you'd had that for breakfast.
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>Have you ever had any? What's the taste like? Chorizo is quite tasty if you like Mexican type foodstuffs.

I eat haggis a lot, it's *very* tasty and commonly eaten (not a tourist food, but it's **always** joked about) - my children love it and you even get it in fish-and-chip shops here. It's not just eaten on Burns' night. It varies from butcher to butcher from very peppery (rather than hot) to quite mild and from coarse-grained to smooth (and even vegetarian): basically it's a loose sausage. It consists of oats or oatmeal and the 'lights' (lungs and whatnot) from sheep with onions and spices. The taste...rich, like a rough pate, cut through with oats and onion: impossible to describe, but if you ever get the chance, try it, you'll be surprised...one way or the other (ho, ho).

My son, Jamie (who I just asked) says "it tastes like meat but with more flavour."