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Haggis is a cultural artefact that simply happens to be eaten. To call it "a food product" is to display cultural insensitivity or perhaps ignorance.

In the same way, bagpipe music simply happens to be listened to but modern research has established that it is not, strictly speaking, "music" as we understand that term.

We had problems for years with Americans who would buy British cars thinking they were "transportation" when they were simply objects of veneration, mean to be washed and polished but occasionally kicked and sworn at.

European so-called "football" is not strictly speaking "a sport" but amateur theatrics, when half-naked young men simulate being mortally wounded before skipping off like young gazelles moments later.

Many Americans abroad do not understand that the ice cube, in Europe, is not meant as a device to actually cool drinks. No, it is just that two of them are put in the glass of luke-warm Coca-Cola to keep the limp slice of lemon from becoming lonesome.