Who eats haggis?

[Pour1Malt]

Seems like a lot of guys have an opinion about haggis and most have been quite positive! Thanks for this. Looks like I have to give it a try, but after reading Robertson's posting (Pour1Malt), I'm considering waiting until I can make it to Dumfries and have his! First impressions, you know, and his sounds delicious.

Robertson, care to share your recipes? What "spices?" (I thought Scotland was like the State of Maine, anything more "exotic" than salt and a little pepper was going overboard!

Bon appetit!

weel.... ai cannae share mai butchers (Stuart Houston) spices- they arr a closly gaurde'd secret....

see http://www.blackface.co.uk/blackface_haggis.asp

but ai can write oop how ai cook it if ya want... PM me an ai'll send it tae any o ya whit wants it....

Scottish cuisine has really grown oop in the last 10 year ar so.... there is now some really greet food....

[Rusty]

First time I had Haggis was while I was in army basic training back in 73 in Yorkshire England. There were all these fish n' chip shops selling Haggis n' chips all over the place. I have had Haggis since at a St Andrews Society function It's an aquired taste, but I like it fine in moderation as one has to consider the affects on gout and cholesterol as one gets older. I say go for it give it a try.

[Wompet]

I've had the beef, sirloin, and vegetarian canned haggi from the Caledonian Kitchen, and liked them all.
I've ordered haggis in stomach and haggis links from The Oatmeal Savage. These were also good, except for the one that was delivered to the apartment rental office and sat there for a day before I found out. You would think that the word "PERISHABLE" on a white box would have gotten their attention, but ...
And to be fair, I have had BAD canned haggis. The taste, the texture, the after-effects - this was a bad haggis.

And you don't necessarily have to eat the full traditional meal. I've used leftover haggis as sandwich filler, shaped it into patties and ate it like a burger, even used it to make 'Scottish burritos.'
The last occasionally made for interesting reactions from my Mexican-American co-workers in El Paso - "Hey, that's a good smelling burrito! What is it?"
"Haggis with potatoes and garlic."
"Haggis?! Eeewwww!! ....... What's haggis?"
You would think guys who think boiled tripe and fried pork skins are good food would be a little more open-minded.

[Pour1Malt]

Whoppit is richt!

leftaver haggii can be fried oop and used many ways...

it's a lot more versitle than leftover turkey....

[mkmound]

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And you don't necessarily have to eat the full traditional meal. I've used leftover haggis as sandwich filler, shaped it into patties and ate it like a burger, even used it to make 'Scottish burritos.'
The last occasionally made for interesting reactions from my Mexican-American co-workers in El Paso - "Hey, that's a good smelling burrito! What is it?"
"Haggis with potatoes and garlic."
"Haggis?! Eeewwww!! ....... What's haggis?"
You would think guys who think boiled tripe and fried pork skins are good food would be a little more open-minded.

Just tell them it's Scottish chorizo!

Mark