Pretty good overall. I've been really buy trying to keep up with school, work and gigs. But I love my job, and all the gigs I've been getting lately. And I'm actually learning to kind of like school. Lol

Back to the subject of haggis...

Oh, so it's like a corn husk that holds a tamale together! I never knew that. In that case, I would have no problem giving it a try.

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yes ,we have a convert , TGS you will love haggis . and when you do find that you do like and love it , you need the good stuff more than once a year and if i may may be so bold , do embrace you'r scottish heratage , for it will only add to what you have become so far (which is an exellent guitar player (i think you rock , you'r phrasing is impecable ) check out a program called the transatlantic sessions , it's run on bbc scotland but features folk bands from all over the world , tis a wonderful musical feast and if i was anywhere near texas , i would be honoured to have a jam and eat some mole with you , . cheers Alan

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A few years ago when my daughter was in college in Oklahoma, i was with at a friends house watching T.V. when a commercial for a tamale store came on. The only thing they made was tamales and were a local favorite. I told him I wanted to buy some, his response was, : Yeah, they taste good but they're so hard to chew!" After further questions, he learned that you take the corn husk off before eating them.

I have sampled both haggis and black pudding during a stay in the sprawling metropolis of East Kilbride. It's the roundabout capital of the world, I'm told. Sampled a few pints at the Monty, the Montgomery Arms, where I learned the difference between a public house and a free house.

Many people seem to be concerned about the fact that this concoction is held together by a stomach; then I found out that the stomach isn't even eaten...

That doesn't bother me--I eat menudo (Mexican beef tripe soup) and chitlins (pork tripe soup, most common in Afro-American "soul food") without worrying about anything. For those who don't know, tripe is the intestine of an animal.

I have read that in Mexico people regularly eat armadillo ("poor man's pork", according to the author). Would it make me a cannibal if I were to do that?

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Steve; how fascinating. Knowing what you do for a living I'm sometimes astonished at the unlikely places it seems to take you. I guess that's quite near to where some jet engines notoriously fell out the sky one time - but that can't have been it?

By the way, if roundabouts are your thang (!!!) (do you call them traffic circles in the States?) I highly recommend another of the world's humming centers of culture and concrete, Milton Keynes - which is also handy for a visit to Marshall Amplification's home base.

...I can think of absolutely no other reason for visiting Milton Keynes.

Cheers - C

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Me neither: any decent quality sausage is held together by a casing made from animal intestines, after all. No issues there: it's some of the other stuff in haggis that gives it an image problem for some of us. Especially the heart and lungs. It makes little sense, but there ya go.

...Actually, to me it does make some sense. When I was a small kid for a while my mother bought lungs extremely cheaply from the butcher to feed the dog. In such quantity that to make them last long enough she'd cook them down in a huge pan - the smell from that filled the house for hours and was absolutely, totally disgusting. My stomach is turning at the mere thought of it, all these decades later.

So lungs in food is kinda problematic to me.

I'm sure there's so many things we'd like if only we could eat them without telling our brains what's going on. Er... brains, for example.

Cheers - C

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stratmansteve were you in EK at the rolls royce factory ? and in these parts it's known as polo mint city it's also only about a 15 mins drive from here in wishaw .
and as for tripe my old grandmother used to boil it up , it reeked , i only tried it once when i was a nipper it was rotten , i've never had it since cheers
Alan

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Ah-ha! Then that explains something I didn't know about. Thanks, Alan!

Erm: I'm struggling to remember if Rolls-Royce is Steve's employer or his competitor...?

Cheers - C

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Yes, my old company had a consignment inventory of jet engine parts at EK that has since been moved to RR in Derby. I stayed at a place in the countryside called The Crutherland House. There was a wedding there one night. All the men and some of the boys were in kilts. Should have snapped pics.

I signed the guest book at The Monty in June 2008. The first signatures were dated 1957!!

Neither employer nor competitor -- customer!

Again: ah-ha!

Cheers - C

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The only good thing about the job is the travel. Haven't been out of the States in some time now. Next week I'm off to California and Reno, NV. We actually have a facility in Reno. Never thought I'd end up there especially on business.

I hear them called traffic circles these days. When I was a boy in New England, we called them rotaries.

Actually, I've heard of Milton Keynes, but the name sounds more like it belongs to a university professor than a city.

Don't know if you've seen Ricky Gervais' sitcom, The Office? They wanted a setting for it that suggested a grey, dismal, concrete-clad, provincial town of mind-numbing dreariness, and in the end they chose Slough.

Apparently Ricky considered Milton Keynes but decided it was just too much of all those things!

(By the way, of Slough poet laureate John Betjeman wrote in 1937, "Come friendly bombs and fall on Slough". He didn't love the place. So when we say that Milton Keynes is worse...)

Cheers - C

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well , thats that cleared up then and i think we have a place up here to rival Slough or milton keynes , it's called cumbernauld , and that was the slogan for the place whit a dump , cheers
Alan

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