Thursday, April 17, 2008

Pass the Haggis

"Young Britons are out of touch with their culinary heritage, a survey claims.

They are so ignorant about traditional foods that some regional delicacies risk being lost for ever.

Many thought that the Lincolnshire dish of haslet was a morris dancer's waistcoat.

About 2,000 people were given a list of 10 dishes from around the country and asked to choose a definition for each.

However, although the poll posed few problems for those over 45, more than half of the younger generation were baffled.

Haslet - a salted pork and offal dish - proved particularly tricky, with a quarter of those aged 18-24 identifying it as part of a morris dancer's attire."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/17/nfood117.xml