Scotland's National Dish and Our Institutional History
Scotland's national dish, the haggis, has a small place in our institution's history.
It is recorded that on 15 November 1875, in one of the earliest lectures to take place after our founding, an eminent visiting lecturer, JC Buckhaven, extolled the merits of the haggis.
The record states that he hoped that haggis "would never, for the sake of Scotland, cease to be a national dish (applause and laughter). In some parts of London it had been sneered at as 'boiled bagpipes' (laughter), but it was an eminently wholesome article of a dish...(which) ...was originally a French dish."
Source: Begg, The Excellent Women, 1994, pp 32.
