My weird roots: Part 2

I'll limit this series to two parts, mainly because I would never get to any other topics.

Ok, so I talked about how sports reflect a culture, and how Scotland is well represented in the "it only make sense if you're half in the bag" sports. I even forgot to mention Golf, or, "A long walk ruined".

A big part of culture is food. Another is music. There is also clothing and pets. The Scottish, being in a land with little there, and having little 'there' themselves, solved this problem in utilizing every part of one animal: The sheep.

Now what other culture would have someone say:
"Hey, how about we turn that animal inside out, stuff oatmeal in it, and call it dinner?"

I'm sure haggis was either a drinking bet gone wretchedly bad or some mother trying to teach her son a lesson, and that lesson was that she had lost her mind. It's quite a tasty dish, providing you get the tot of Scotch whiskey with it and try to forget how many organs you are eating in one plateful.

And then they get the idea that if they use the same format without the oatmeal, they can make a musical instrument/torture device that can strike fear into their foes, patriotism into their army, and municipalities to change bylaws? Ahh the bagpipes, what other instrument can be so clearly heard over so far a distance and still drive you batty? It even looks kind of like an inside-out sheep, although that does cast suspicion onto what appendage the player is blowing into. Anytime someone starts to play them the first notes cause me to muse if 14 cats did not simultaneously get worms.

That being insufficient, they also shave their food/musical instrument and make dresses out of it. I COULD make a comment on why pants are not good for Scotsmen to wear, but we already know all the other cultures are jealous enough already.

Scotland, a land with a culture rich in mystery. That mystery is "what the love are they THINKING!"