Boudin. Is it really just Cajun haggis?

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It was not a dish eaten by the upper classes, and was seen as only something the poorest of the poor would eat, just one step above eating garbage.
But the Highland Revival in the early 1800s sort of romanticized it along with everything else, and it has since become a prized symbol of the tenacity of Highland culture and
their ability to make do with whatever they have.

Many of my folk were very poor in Scotland, Ireland and England. Coming here was not by choice, but force or starvation. Being able to OWN land apparently persuaded them
they had magically become "gentry". My mother's line felt that they were above such dishes. When a friend brought chitlins to school as a recess snack and I found what chitlins
are, I was very grateful for their thinking. Still am. No haggis for me, either. Of course, after no meat since 1979, even if I could get such down and keep it down, I'd probably
face fairly dire consequences. My hat is off to those who had the ingenuity to find ways to use everything, and the strength to flourish despite how they were treated.

I do manage to handle addressing the haggis, and the execution of the poor beast, but leave the delight of consumption to others.