Is Haggis realy pet food?

[Sans Bateau]

So, come you 'butters from Scotland, is haggis pet food?

SWMBO decided that we would have haggis last night (Fri), I was a bit dubious and made the big mistake of reading the 'contents' on the label first. Had I not done that, but downed half a bottle of Scotch instead (is that the way to do it?) I might have been able to stomach it; keeping the other half to wash it down.

But when it was dished up, it did smell like warmed up Kitty Kat or Pal or similar, so I became an instant vegetarian, whilst SWMBO ate hers, well she was'nt going to admit a mistake, was she?

 

[graham]

my wife won a canned Haggis in a raffle at a burns night supper.Were still too frightened to open it incase its still alive in there. /forums/images/graemlins/crazy.gifIm not all that encouraged by your recount of the experience.

 

[wishbone]

I don't know about pet food but haggis can run fast, or...is...it...after haggis you have the runs so you have to fast!........have'nt they got short fat hairy legs! speaking as a cockney who loves jellied eels and pie & mash & liquor.

 

[mirabriani]

When I was in Scotland recently
I thought "I cannot die without trying Haggis"
So I bought a couple.
Many years ago sliced Haggis was on the breakfast menu at a hotel
So I thought "right, Haggis for breakfast"
However, after following the instructions, when cooked
it turned out to be the consistency of mince
I topped up putting it into a sandwich, but
it dropped out. Dearheart, of course, nearly wet herself
I cannot say the flavour was impressive either.
What is it eaten with?

"Couple? You ask? What did I do with the other on?
Gave it as a present from Scotland

Regards Briani

 

[Vara]

Haggis is a subtle wheeze,perpetrated on the unwary by the perfidious Scot.
All ethnic groups have a "national delicacy"which they foist on outsiders for their own private amusement.

The supermarket in Lochgilphead(Argyll)does not sell Haggis,but I can buy it in Canterbury(Kent).

Having been brought up and schooled mainly in Scotland the first ,and last time I tasted haggis was at the age of 25 at a Burns Night in Berlin.

 

[Sans Bateau]

Eating that rubbish, your no good to ask an opinion!

Graham,

Call the local authority, you will have to get a permit to dispose of your tinned haggis, it is VERY dangerous!

 

[Sans Bateau]

"What is it eaten with?"

Bisodol

 

[Sans Bateau]

Probably at a Burns night it would be OK, if your p****d enough!

 

[BobOwen]

Lord alive !

It sound like you ate the thing ALIVE! Surely you killed it first????

I have a nauseous feeling you didn't gut and skin it either.

You should be aware they can survive an hour in the pot.

 

[Dougie_the_Mate]

For much of my life I did not much care for haggis, until having it served with a nice whisky cream sauce at Dunblane Hydro - pure, dead brilliant by the way.

Since then we have it at home now and then but it is important to make sure it is from a reputable butcher - there are some who make excellent haggis - the supermarket stuff just isn't the same. It should of course be served with neeps and champit tatties - not with chips or as a sandwich - ugh!!!

 

[FergusM]

We have an excellent butcher in our nearest town, Lockerbie, and his haggis is exquisite. Have it the traditional way, with mashed potato and turnip (tatties an neeps), and a decent single malt. Islay or Speyside malts are equally good with it, depending on your own taste.

On the boat, I use Grants tinned haggis, which is quite palatable, with tinned tatties and neeps. If you fry an onion in the pot and then add the haggis, it's even better. The 15-year-old Glenlivet I had last time with it came straight from heaven ...

Follow the haggis with rough unsweetened oatcakes and cheese, coffee and another dram or two of uisge-beatha, and you will understand why I thank God every day that I'm a Scot.

I think I'll just go and pour another glass of Glenlivet - it might wash away the horror of last minute French tries ....

 

[npf1]

when I tried it and didn't like it, I gave it to the dog and it would touch it. So, Pedegree Chum must be far better!!!!

 

[webcraft]

Hear hear Fergus

Grant's tinned haggis is one of the staples on Fairwinds, and as you say it's excellent with Tesco's tinned new potatoes. We usually have it with tinned carrot because it is orange but so much quicker than boiling up genuine neep - and I have never managed to find tinned neep.

We also sometimes have it with beans, and once with a tin of prunes - delicious in a sort of Moroccan way.

Just off to the pub for a (late) Burns Supper as it so happens . . .

- Nick

 

[HansBlix]

Ulrika and i fink zat mr blair vood hav found WMD much closer to home ...

 

[jimi]

If she is I am saddened grieviously. Haggis and I were were lovers in the 70's and 80's. I know she always was a bit eccentic and really loved animals but surely this is a tin too far?

 

[Birdseye]

[ QUOTE ]
So, come you 'butters from Scotland, is haggis pet food?

SWMBO decided that we would have haggis last night (Fri), I was a bit dubious and made the big mistake of reading the 'contents' on the label first. Had I not done that, but downed half a bottle of Scotch instead (is that the way to do it?) I might have been able to stomach it; keeping the other half to wash it down.

But when it was dished up, it did smell like warmed up Kitty Kat or Pal or similar, so I became an instant vegetarian, whilst SWMBO ate hers, well she was'nt going to admit a mistake, was she?

[/ QUOTE ]

Wrong question. Should be "Is Haggis really food"? And the answer is NO

Personally, I have long suspected that the haggis, like the bagpipes, is a practical joke perpetrated by the Irish on the Scots. Who have yet to realise /forums/images/graemlins/grin.gif

But then if you wear a skirt and invent your own corruption of English like that Jimi fellow and a few others, what do you expect?

 

[FullCircle]

Haggis is splendid, and transforms magically with a good whisky added in large measure. Burns night is an event never to be missed, and at the last one we had 16 to dinner, several of whom hadn't been blooded in the eating. I have only had one "Yeauch!!!" outcry from a Haggis virgin in the distant memory, and one who brought her own Vegetarian Haggis (Ho ho!).
We regularly have it in this house, and at about a quid, is brilliant value. As a confirmed Ecossophile, an opportunity to drink extraordinary quantities of rare malt is not to be missed.
Try surrounding it with the following dishes:
Cullen Skink
Tipsy Laird Cake
Orcadian cheese with oaties.
All exceedingly yum, and in no way responsible for my current shape.

 

[Parsonsheath]

Yup, it is nice, and even us peasants eat it down here in Essex, you can buy it with chips, or for a change try white pudding with it.

Do I have any interest to declare? Well I think it was my great grandparents who came south to screw the English!

 

[billmacfarlane]

Haggis is quite simply delicious. Do you like sausages ? If you do then please don't object to what's inside a haggis. A haggis is a far healthier choice than the abattoir floor sweepings that go into sausages.

 

[Budgie]

At a Burns supper last night - haggis, neaps, tatties, whisky - great night!