In 2009, Glasgow-born food historian Catherine Brown discovered a 1615 English cooking book with a written recipe for haggis (per History Today). It's clear the Scots weren't the first to come up with an inventive way to cook various animal parts — it's believed prehistoric hunters used a similar method to preserve meat, and Romans, Vikings, and Native Americans did the same — but the Scots have stoically continued to prepare meat in this way, perhaps making use of cuts that might otherwise be discarded (via Historic UK).
Scottish poet Robert Burns cemented Scotland's claim to the dish with his 1787 Address To A Haggis, a poem now recited annually at suppers held in honor of Burns' birthday (via The Culture Trip). As author Alexander Lee writes, "As long as there are Burns suppers, there will be people arguing over whether the 'great chieftain' is 'really' Scottish. And unless some dazzlingly new evidence comes to light, I don't expect the question will ever be settled." This question might be better left unanswered and chased by whisky, instead.
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