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

Robert;

A word from the younger generation! Now if McDonalds starts selling this dish I might have reason to try it! (now that should show a total lack of taste - McDonalds indeed!) Now we could get into Blood Pudding, which the Irish side of my family likes. My wife and her side of the family (Spanish) also have some interesting dishes made from parts of animals I will not discuss. It is all a matter of taste and what you are raised to "enjoy".

Tom