The market for Thurston's haggis - expat Scots, Burns enthusiasts and Highland games attendees - is passionate but somewhat niche.

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Not bad for a drink that was invented by poor Scots crofters trying to keep out the chill of a Highland winter.

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Around the world, formation parades also took place in Iraq for The Royal Scots and The Highlanders and in Cyprus for The Royal Highland Fusiliers.

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This lingering anxiety in the British body politic reached its apotheosis in the rather more determined rebellion of 1745, led by Charles Edward, which culminated in the Battle of Culloden, where Bonnie Prince Charlie's Highland army was no match for the British both English and Scots redcoats.

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