Sunday, March 18, 2007
What? I did used to be vegetarian
I eye the ball of meat on the counter. "What is that?" I say to my Dad.He peers over it. "Dunno. It's your house." He pauses and prods it (hi, housemate!). "Looks like Haggis."
"Oh. Do they live in Scotland?"
My Dad raises an eyebrow. "Do what live in Scotland?"
"Haggises," I say.
My Dad rubs his beard. "Yes," he says slowly. "They live on the mountains."
I stare at the ball of meat for a while.
"Yeah, Haggises don't exist, do they," I say.
"No," he says laughing. "It's just sheep's stomach and mincemeat etc. Like meatloaf."
"Meatloaf aren't animals?"
Labels: blonde moments, embarrassing
by billygean.co.uk at 7:33 PM |
2 Comments:
Well, I suppose Meatloaf is in some way an animal in that he's a homo sapiens. So you were sort of right.
By the way did your dad mention that the haggises that live in the mountains in Scotland have one leg shorter than the other? It's so that they can stand up straight on steep mountainsides. Turn a haggis to face the other way and he's screwed.
Oh Gill! Your not the first person I have met that thought a haggis was an animal...in my old job they managed to convince the foreign girl that they lived in mountains and made a bagpipe sound through their trunks.
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