Harigals mp3
HARIGALS n. entrails
This week's offering concerning harigals, an economical source of dietary protein in these straitened times, is not for the squeamish. An quotation from Ramsay's A Collection of Scots Proverbs (1776) suggests why, in economic hardship, such despised morsels might gain importance: 'He that never eats flesh thinks harigalds a feast'. John Galt in The Entail (1823) ' without an 'r' declares...
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