Who eats haggis?

[Tony]

Mmmmm, fried haggis slice.....

Seriously, mmmmmmm.

Browsing around that Caledonian Kitchen site, all I can say is "Scotland's gone tae hell in a handbasket since I left!"
Diet Irn Bru?
How's that supposed to cure a hangover....?

[longshadows]

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!

[cessna152towser]

Not one of my favourites, but I do eat it occasionally. I normally buy it in the form of MacIntosh's packaged haggis, neeps and tatties from the supermarket.

[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....

[StoneCold]

(OK, this in not exactly "kilt related" and will probably be moved. I didn't know where to post it.

So, I've been told by friends that now that I'm wearing a kilt, the next thing is to eat haggis! Uh, with all due respect, does anyone really eat that stuff? It sound awful and the pictures I've seen don't look much better.

Can some of you describe your first "encounter" with a haggis? What was your impression? Do you still eat it and can you honestly say you enjoy it? I've even seen it sold in cans (tins) and there is even a vegetarian version!

(Guess that's one Scots gene that slipped out before it got to me.)

Cheers,

I hope this doesn't get me drummed off this board, but I couldn't eat the stuff even at gunpoint. I'm odd as far as what I eat and I blame my mom for it.

When she was pregnant with me, she threw up eggs everytime she ate them. To this day (I'm in my early 40's) I can't eat the things. I can eat cakes, noodles, all kinds of things that contain eggs. I hate tomatoes, but love spaghetti sauce, ketchup and salsa. I don't eat - and really wish I did - seafood. We have a veritable cornucopia of the stuff where I live, but I just don't like it.

All that said, there's a ton of really appealing looking and smelling stuff to eat. We're such a melting pot for other cultures that there are tons of appetizing things to eat - Chinese, Indian, Vietnamese, Italian, Greek, etc. Sheeps stomach, organs and suet don't fall into that category for me

[Hamish]

I have not had Haggis but I know a man who eats it

Hamish !!!!every week !!!!

Not quite true, Derek! More like once a fortnight, I'd say. Yes, my favourite supermarket always has two makes of Haggis on its shelves - an average one and a superb one, both made in Scotland. I tend to alternate them so as not to become stuck in a Haggis rut! There are always two or three nestling in my freezer, so that I need never go without!!

A single haggis does me two good meals, as I live alone, and there is usually a little left over. With that I make a tasty sandwich or jacket potato filler by simply beating the cold left-overs into a couple of spoonfuls of cream cheese (half-fat, of course!!!). Much as I just love my haggis steamed in the regular way, I almost prefer the left-overs ....... I certainly look forward to them!!

I was once given a tinned haggis, from the Queen's grocery store no less, but it was pretty grim and I'd never knowingly eat it again. I've also tried Vegetarian haggis, in a small bar/restaurant just off Edinburgh's Royal Mile, and it was not at all bad but, again, I wouldn't choose it if I were offered a choice.

It is said that haggis is an acquired taste but when I first tasted it, fourty or fifty years ago, I just loved it straight away. Who started this thread? It's really got my juices flowing!

[Johnny M]

I'll admit I've only eaten vegetarian haggis. At a restuarant in
Glasgow it was quite good, the tinned variety I had the other
week, other than looking like it was pre-digested, was... well,
ok, I could eat it. My version is getting better (Any advice from
the experienced haggis makers to make it taste a little more
authentic, herbs, spices, etc? Besides adding the animal parts
of course )