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Haggis, the national dish of Scotland, a type of pudding composed of the liver, heart, and lungs of a sheep (or other animal), minced and mixed with beef or mutton suet and oatmeal and seasoned with onion, cayenne pepper, and other spices. The mixture is packed into a sheep’s stomach and boiled.

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The eighth emperor of Rome, Aulus Vitellius, is not what youd call a household name, and probably not even in his own household.

According to experts, the Burns Night staple, described as Scotlands national dish, is twice as bad for the environment than your usual dinner.

c. 1568–1637) testified in The English Huswife (1615). Its origin, however, is still more ancient, for Marcus Apicius, Aristophanes, and even Homerallude to dishes of similar composition. The derivation of the term haggis, first attested in the 15th century, is unknown. Haggis is inexpensive, savory, and nourishing. In Scotland it formerly was considered a rustic dish and was so celebrated in Robert Burns’s lines “To a Haggis” (1786), but in the 21st century haggis is served with some...