Alexander McCall Smith - Keep Your Hands Off Our Haggis - NYTimes.com

Op-Ed Contributor - Keep Your Hands Off Our Haggis - NYTimes.com: "The insult to the Scots this year is that haggis, the Scottish national dish, is not really Scottish, but English. Now this may seem a matter of little consequence to Americans, but how would the United States react if apple pie and turkey with cranberry sauce were to be claimed as the products of, say, French cuisine? Or if somebody asserted that baseball was invented by the Romanians (which it was)? These things are a matter of national pride, and people should take great care when talking about them."