Decoding the Scale…

Four Traggi:

Outstanding. Receives the Traveler Bill Seal of Approval.

Three Traggi:

Very Good. Recommended unreservedly

Two Traggi:

Good. A decent meal can be expected.

One Traggis:

Okay. At least you probably won’t get food poisoning.

No Traggi:

Don’t blame me if you insist on eating here.

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THE TRAGIC TALE OF THE TRAGGIS

After successfully cloning Dolly the Sheep in 1996, the doctors of the Roslin Institute outside Edinburgh, Scotland decided that cloning a mere sheep was child’s play. The REAL test of their Biotechnology mettle would be to cross the Scottish national dish, a haggis, with the Traivelar MacBill Logo.

On June 15, 1999 their efforts resulted in The Traggis, a creature neither fully haggis, nor fully logo. Rejected by both Madison Ave and the world of horrifyingly prepared organ meats, The Traggis lived out her days in relative isolation on the Institute’s grounds until her death on August 7, 2004. The Duke of York represented the Crown at her funeral service and she was posthumously awarded an O.B.E.

On September 2, 2004 her stuffed remains were placed at Edinburgh’s Royal Museum, part of the National Museums of Scotland.