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    I know it’s not Burns Night, but I feel like a haggis for dinner tonight. Luckily my local Sainsbury’s supermarket sell them ready-to-cook, though they’re not a patch on those found in Bonnie Scotland.

    There is a recipe here for those who don’t know the ingredients. As it says, those in the US may have to substitute some of them as the USDA has declared them “unfit for human consumption

    Dead easy to cook – boil or steam for an hour or so for one that serves 3-4 people. You can microwave the supermarket ones, but it’s a wee bit sacreligous.

    Serve with ‘neeps and tatties (mashed turnips or swede and potatoes). I like to serve mine with a beef gravy, as it’s a bit dry on it’s own.

    I have the best wife in the world – she loves the stuff. Even the cat gets a look in. catty yum

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    • #618114

      I agree that Haggis is wonderful – how come a country that exports such abysmal food can declare haggis unfit for human consumption is beyond me!

      Neeps must be made with swede (the yellow turnip) and nutmeg added to this with the salt, pepper and butter is delicious.

      However I am agahst at your suggestion of serving it with beef gravy – what do you think the Scots invented whisky for?

      • #618116

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        what do you think the Scots invented whisky for?


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        to give the English an excuse to invade them??? duck

      • #618117

        I’m now starting to think baaaad thoughts along the lines of Haggis Pie. Does such a thing exist? Either a kind of Shepherd’s Pie affair or baked in a shortcrust pastry sort of thing. It must exist – I can’t have thought of such an idea all on my own.

        • #618415

          One can buy Haggis Pies here in Glasgow, round pie filled with Haggis topped with neeps and tatties yum

          UK

    • #620403

      eeewwwww! puke
      Haggis King Contest
      have fun

      • #620689

        Don’t knock it till you try it. cooked yum

        • #620699

          …and WE won’t mention the crud that makes up your average fast food burger.

          • #620725

            It is my understanding sausages, pies and burgers are traditionaly used to use up the bites left over after the choice bits are used, it is the same with nugets, reformed meat, chicken chef

            • #620726

              There are some VERY interesting ways of using these leftover bits in other countries. I have encountered some very strange-looking bits in Asia. I find it best not to ask questions- just eat.

              (Anyway, in the sort of places I prefer to eat in Asia, I could not ask questions unless I knew the local language. Just trying to order food by sign language is a great way to meet locals- and to get some EXCELLENT food).

            • #620752

              Ordering in local restaurants with sign language works in Vegetarian restaurants too.
              And you can be fairly sure that there won’t be too many haggis ingredients in the meal smile

              StuartR

            • #622874

              An amusing story that a fellow scientist told my husband about his food adventures in Thailand (don’t know if this is on Woody’s diet wink ). Included the tale of the spicy deep fried grasshoppers that are apparently sold on street corners. He brought some home with him and left one in the fruit bowl without telling anyone in his family. When one of his teenaged children yelled about the insect in the fruit bowl, he quickly ate it in front of them!

              The post script to this story is that on a following trip to Thailand he found out how they catch the grasshoppers – by stunning them with an insecticidal spray so that they can be caught up in nets. It was the spray that made him decide to forgo the grasshoppers.

              Cheers

            • #622942

              I have tried the deep fried crickets (in Thailand).

              I could palate the stuff OK in the first instance-but crunching thelegs and wings afterwards took a lot of doing

    • #622673

      But why would anyone want to?

      StuartR

      • #622750

        Some strange people don’t eat meat

        Jimmy commited meat eater bow

        • #622781

          Personally, I’m semi-vegetarian.

          I only eat the meat of vegetarian animals.

          • #622915

            Unfortunately, it’s hard to say which animals are vegetarian. Wasn’t the cause of Mad Cow Disease that cows had been fed with leftover bits of sheep?

            • #622943

              Hans,

              You can sya that because you are not in the UK.

              Neither am I (now).

              But I’m stillnot allowed to donate blood because of my time in the UK 10 years ago.

            • #623666

              I can sya I’m still in the UK

              Aberdeen Angus beef always has been on a Vegetarian diet and never been involved in any food scares

              I’m still not allowed to donate blood because of my time outside th UK 30 years ago

              In case the thread police are watching innocent I was eating Haggis and pork sausages today yum

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