Haggis!!

[hilandr]

{smile) Yes, that was my point. I meant that it is AS IF the English had to "order out". However, with all the recipes flying across the waters now, Americans are becoming more able to prepare their own cultural dishes tolerably well. You just never know for certain if it has turned out right.

[Polwarth]

That's the trouble with the internet - cannot read subtleties in expressions on the printed page! Yet another case of 'two nations divided by a common language'

I read it as if you were suggesting that only Texas produced good S&K pies....

I've eaten haggis in the USA - but it was out of tins and was BLECH.....

'Real' haggis is not even an acquired taste - there is nothing to 'not like' about it.... but that tinned stuff is awful and bears very little resemblance to real haggis. The pity is, that's the stuff that seems to get peddled at lots of highland games and Burns' Suppers as 'GENYOOOINE' Scottish haggis!