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Bell the Cat, these islands were quite familiar with famine, the 1840s one in Ireland killed millions! and the staple diet on Scottish farms 150 years ago was oatmeal, butchermeat was a novelty. The English generally don't eat haggis because they're unfamiliar with it, just as a generation grew up unfamiliar with rabbit, post myxamatosis and wont eat it now, yet jellied eels are OK apparently in the south of England and are regarded in Scotland as revolting. I think familiarity is the answer here
wullie m
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