haggis claims

[Kiltman]

Good haggis is brilliant - in fact I had a chance to taste test two different haggi at the Spokane Highland Games yesterday and much to my surprise they were both wonderful! Bad haggis (no, not the band) is absolutely inedible.

Good haggis, yes it is wonderful. The worst haggis I've ever had was in Oban.

Probably any number of peoples had something similar to haggis, just because the English were the first to write it down proves only that a written record of it has survived in the English recension, not that they had haggis before us.

[###KILTEDKIWI###]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

[Rex_Tremende]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

In Cincinnati, we have goetta, which is sort of like haggis, but without the organs; porcine, rather than ovine. German in origin, I suspect it probably had a more everything-but-the-squeal peasant history. Like haggis, oats are used to stretch the meat that you have. When I first tasted haggis, I thought it might have been goetta, that is until I bit into something distinctly iron-rich.

Regards,
Rex.

[McClef]

I read that someone asked if this was the case why hadn't Shakespeare written about it?

This cook book appeared in 1615 and Shakespeare died in 1616 so he may not have heard of it in time. Had he done so he may well have beaten Rabbie to it and popularised a dish which cannot really be said to have taken off in England, whatever its origin.

Forsooth! This pudding of our sceptr'd Isle!
This seat of Kings! Yet who dare'st deny the smile
On English lips, when thereupon they taste
And knowing that t'was o'er the Scots outpaced!
Let them prattle! Let them waste their breath!
But there is no Haggis in Macbeth!

[macwilkin]

In Cincinnati, we have goetta, which is sort of like haggis, but without the organs; porcine, rather than ovine. German in origin, I suspect it probably had a more everything-but-the-squeal peasant history. Like haggis, oats are used to stretch the meat that you have. When I first tasted haggis, I thought it might have been goetta, that is until I bit into something distinctly iron-rich.

Regards,
Rex.

Aye, Rex...I think most every group has a Haggis-like dish. The Cajuns, for example, have boudin blanc, which is essentially Haggis with rice instead of oats.

T.

[Peter C.]

Aye, Rex...I think most every group has a Haggis-like dish. The Cajuns, for example, have boudin blanc, which is essentially Haggis with rice instead of oats.

T.

I think you are right there Todd.

Maybe the English had cook books before the Scots.

I think with the availability of food today, most countries no longer eat their haggis-like meals regularly.

Is haggis used in everyday meals in Scotland? I have only had it offered to me on Burns night.

Peter

[McClef]

Oh yes Haggis is widely available and you can have it for breakfast every morning at Ferintosh!

[skauwt]

I think you are right there Todd.

Maybe the English had cook books before the Scots.

I think with the availability of food today, most countries no longer eat their haggis-like meals regularly.

Is haggis used in everyday meals in Scotland? I have only had it offered to me on Burns night.

Peter

you can even buy it in tins at local supermarkets

[vmac3205]

You would have to think that most cultures / countries, would of had some form of "haggis", not wanting to waste any part of an animal etc...

Don't worry about the haggis, worry about them bloomin aussies trying to steal our pavlova...

There was a great article in this month's Saveur food magazine about Pavlova. According to them, it is definately a New Zealand dish.

[kscaddo]

I kid you not. I am watching Fox news w/Sheppard Smith and he says; that someone has found an English recipe that predates anything in Scotland. I just can't believe it.